Virta is the first company with a clinically-proven treatment to safely and sustainably reverse type 2 diabetes and other chronic metabolic diseases without the use of medications or surgery. Our innovations in nutritional biochemistry, data science and digital tools combined with our clinical expertise are shifting the diabetes treatment paradigm from management to reversal. Our mission - to reverse type 2 diabetes in 100 million people by 2025.
As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you’ll help us on our mission by building tools and processes that empower engineers at Virta to deliver quickly and efficiently. You’ll work with engineers across the organization to remove friction and increase leverage across the entire software development lifecycle.
This role is open to remote applicants, so please apply regardless of your location.
Responsibilities:
- Create and maintain tools that enable rapid software development of our services and applications
- Iterate and improve upon our existing build, test, and deploy pipelines
- Own our developer experience by working with a variety of teams to identify and resolve areas of developer friction
- Mentor, train, and write documentation for other developers at Virta
90 Day Plan
Within your first 90 days at Virta, we expect you will do the following:
- Learn the ins and outs of our existing development practices and suggest ways we can improve
- Setup remote development environments in Google Cloud Platform using Docker, Kubernetes, and Tilt
- Create tools to help developers debug and test their applications
- Improve the build, test, and deploy pipelines of our Go and Python codebases
- Set a roadmap and vision for the future of the developer experience at Virta
Requirements:
- 5+ years experience as a software engineer working on developer tooling, automation, and software delivery
- Experience with at least one of our core programming languages - Go and Python - and its greater ecosystem
- Experience with Docker and Kubernetes, GCP experience preferred
- Experience building platforms and tools for developers
- Experience defining and analyzing application and system metrics
Values-driven culture
Virta’s company values drive our culture, so you’ll do well if:
- You put people first and take care of yourself, your peers, and our patients equally
- You have a strong sense of ownership and take initiative while empowering others to do the same
- You prioritize positive impact over busy work
- You have no ego and understand that everyone has something to bring to the table regardless of experience
- You appreciate transparency and promote trust and empowerment through open access of information
- You are evidence-based and prioritize data and science over seniority or dogma
- You take risks and rapidly iterate
As part of your duties at Virta, you may come in contact with sensitive patient information that is governed by HIPAA. Throughout your career at Virta, you will be expected to follow Virta's security and privacy procedures to ensure our patients' information remains strictly confidential. Security and privacy training will be provided.
- For this role the compensation range for candidates in Colorado is $176,560 - $202,943; information about Virta’s benefits is on our careers page at: https://www.virtahealth.com/careers.
Note: Starting pay will be based on a number of factors and commensurate with qualifications & experience. Virta has a location based compensation structure; there may be a different range for candidates in other locations.
