Senior Devops Engineer

SENIOR DEVOPS ENGINEER

THE COMPANY:

Element Science, Inc. is a medical device and digital health company focused on developing solutions at the intersection of clinical-grade wearables, machine learning algorithms, and lifesaving therapies in order to address leading causes of death and hospitalization in patients with heart disease, primarily as they transition from the hospital-to-home. By putting the needs of patients and physicians first, our personalized digital devices, which are designed for function, comfort, and ease-of-use, aim to redefine the paradigm of care for these patients. Our first product, a wearable patch defibrillator, is initially targeted at treating the more than 500,000 patients in the US with an elevated temporary risk of potentially experiencing a lethal heart rhythm. Based in San Francisco, our funders include Third Rock Ventures, Google Ventures, Deerfield Healthcare, Qiming Venture Partners USA, Cormorant Asset Management, and Invus Opportunities.

SUMMARY OF ROLE:

Element Science is building a world class software engineering team responsible for a software ecosystem comprising of mobile, web and desktop applications, Cloud and Web services that receive, process, store and visualize information coming from our devices. We are looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to own our Cloud infrastructure, software release process and tools, and to contribute to software development tasks as needed. The ideal candidate has a proven track record of provisioning, maintaining, and monitoring Cloud infrastructure, and developing and releasing software applications and services in digital health, health IT or IOT spaces.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Develop and automate infrastructure for provisioning, deployment, and delivery of secure and scalable Cloud services on AWS to development, test, and productions environments.

• Set up tools and services to identify, alert and correct issues with Cloud environments and deployments. Automate corrective actions to the extent possible.

• Develop and maintain infrastructure for CI/CD, integrating to pipeline software best practices such as code reviews, unit tests, test automation framework(s), static and security code analysis, and branching. Automate release artifacts for formal releases.

• Provide software configuration management documentation in compliance with Element Science software development process and quality system, including branching strategy, and versioning of internal components, algorithms, and SOUP.

• Develop source and test code, as needed, for secure, available, scalable, and reliable Cloud services using Web API (for example) and related clients such as web and mobile applications.

• Engage in continuous improvements discussions for software development.

• Understand compliance standards required by medical device regulated environment.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering or equivalent.

• 5+ years of relevant IT or software engineering experience with 3+ experience in Cloud infrastructure, provisioning, monitoring, and troubleshooting. Strong knowledge of AWS and Linux are highly desirable for this role.

• Comfortable creating and managing VPCs, load balancers, clusters, server instances, databases and data storage. Experience with infrastructure automation using Terraform, Ansible or similar tools.

• Experience with containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes and Helm charts) in a Cloud environment (AWS, GCP and/or Azure).

• Experience with building a suite of monitoring services, alerts, automated and/or manual corrective actions to maintain operational excellence.

• Experience with building framework, automation, and tooling to enable software best practices such as CI/CD, code reviews, static code analysis, and automated testing, with a process improvement mindset.

• Experience in CI/CD using Bitbucket, Jenkins, or similar tools.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Preferred experience with Python, JavaScript, Java and/or C#.

• Preferred experience with mobile application development for iOS and Android using native tools or cross-platform frameworks such as Flutter.

• Preferred experience with test automation frameworks such as Qwerty, Cucumber or similar tools.

• Preferred familiarity with medical device or other regulated environments.

• Preferred experience with integration of streaming data technologies such as Spark and Hadoop.

• Preferred experience with machine learning services such as AWS SageMaker.

BENEFITS:

Element Science offers a very competitive salary and benefits package including, but not limited to:

• Stock Options

• 90% employer-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance

• Company-paid Basic Life Insurance

• 401(k) retirement plan (Traditional and Roth)

• Competitive Paid Time Off

• Paid Holidays

• FSA (Flexible Spending Accounts)

• HSA (Health Savings Account)

• Employee Assistance Program through PEO

The salary for this exempt-level position will be based on experience and qualifications within an established pay range.

• Pay range: $165,000 - $185,000 + Annual Bonus

Element Science is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All candidates will be evaluated on the basis of their qualifications for the job in question. We do not base our employment decision on an employee's or applicant's race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), parental status, national origin, age, disability, genetic information (including family medical history), political affiliation, military service, or other non-merit-based factors prohibited by local, state, or federal law.

In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification form upon hire. We are not able to sponsor individuals for employment visas for this job.

At this time, we are unable to offer relocation assistance at Element Science.