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Wattpad is a global multiplatform entertainment company whose vision is to entertain and connect the world through stories. Since 2006, we’ve been on a mission to use the power of community and technology to unleash the full potential of stories to the world. Every month 90 million people around the world spend over 23 billion minutes on Wattpad to share and discover stories they can’t find anywhere else. Our brand banner includes: Wattpad, W Ventures, Wattpad WEBTOON Studios, Wattpad Books and Wattpad Brand Partnerships. We’re proudly based in Toronto, but our reach is global. Come build the future of entertainment and storytelling, and write your next chapter with us!
Wattpad runs on a large distributed system that handles 45k requests every second. You’ll be assisting in modernizing our infrastructure. Our monolith is written in PHP and backed by S3, Redis, Memcache, MySQL and Cloudfront. Our microservices are written in Go and are backed by S3, DynamoDB and MySQL. At this scale, caching is paramount so we have multiple terabytes of data across memcached, redis and groupcache.
The purpose of our team is to enhance our backend infrastructure, and increase the productivity of our engineers. You’ll be managing a team focused on maintaining and developing infrastructure so that it is reliable, resilient, secure, easy to operate, and cost efficient. This is a large and very capable team who keeps our platform running seamlessly. We believe in a team culture that enables empowered engineers to fix problems in the way that they see fit.
What you’ll be doing:
People management of a group of engineers who are operating a production platform in AWS hosting 150+ services handling 45k requests/sec using Kubernetes and services running on EC2 which is responsible for serving millions of people per day. You will be both a technical leader and a people manager.
Play an active role in hiring across the team
Ensure the team is high performing, with a healthy, inclusive and collaborative culture
Coach engineers on the team and guide them through a fulfilling career
Contribute to the technology strategy by guiding and shepherding the technical architecture. Maintain high quality standards, especially with technology, and foster a culture of long-term thinking and innovation
Help support and unblock the team in delivering on its goals; you will oversee the technical scoping and planning for the team, and help guide and empower the development approach within the team
Work alongside a product manager and technical project manager to provide leadership, guidance and direction for the team
Optimizing hardware across AWS services to manage costs, including right-sizing and deprecating systems.
Researching new technologies to solve tomorrow’s deployment, monitoring, and scaling needs.
Be enthusiastic and embrace Wattpad’s values: #teamwork, #builditforward, #trailblazer, #playtowin, #resourceful, #inclusive, #userobsessed
What we’re looking for:
You’re passionate about DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering and building a culture of automation
You’ve managed a team working with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, etc) for at least 2-4 years
You have working experience dealing with environments that leverage container orchestration tools like Kubernetes
You’re passionate about managing infrastructure costs at scale
Experience building scalable and fault tolerant systems
Nothing makes you happier than a hard problem solved well (and has “just-the-right” amount of documentation)
Bonus Points:
You understand DevOps as a culture and practice in organizations of our size or larger
You have a proven history of changing the engineering culture of a team to become more operations minded
You have actively managed hosting costs at scale at multiple companies
You have a deep knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes or ECS
You have exposure to Infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform
Passionate about security and privacy
You have 5+ years of experience working with AWS
What we offer:
Competitive salary
Career development; we believe in mentorship and investing in your learning, supporting you to achieve your goals
Health benefits, fully covered by us!
RRSP Contributions (Canada), 401K Contributions (USA)
Generous vacation and Parental Leave Top-up
Monthly home office allowance, choice of hardware, flexible hours, and remote work options
Corporate discount for gym membership for you and your family
Summer Fridays with afternoons off!
And a whole lot more!
Wattpad is conducting all interviews in a distributed manner using applicable third party software where needed and using visual interface tools such as Google Hangouts and Zoom.
About Wattpad
Who are we? Entrepreneurs and Do-ers. Our vision is to entertain and connect the world through stories, and our mission is to use the power of community and technology to unleash the full potential of stories to the world.
What does that mean? We are visionaries, community builders, passionate problem solvers, storytellers, coffee snobs (tea drinkers, too!), curious by nature, and culturally diverse.
What are we obsessed with? Our users. Solving complex problems and maximizing flow. Learning constantly. Building the next great storytelling product. Finding the greatest stories ever told. Dogs (and cats), coffee, and good snacks.
How do we work? Autonomously, collaboratively, respectfully. Balancing with work, family, and play…and all while having a great time.
Wattpad is a remote friendly company and encourages remote candidates to apply as long as they are located and authorized to work in either the US or Canada (excluding Quebec) as a precondition of employment. We are not able to sponsor applicants for work permits.
If you happen to live near the areas of either Toronto, Ontario or Halifax, Nova Scotia, you may also have the opportunity to work from our beautiful offices – 1 located in Downtown Toronto and the other in Downtown Halifax, both with easy access to transit.
Culture and Diversity
Wattpad is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate. Period.
Wattpad welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process. We have taken a leadership position on creating a culture and an organization that truly values diversity. We are committed to fostering a global team that reflects the diversity of the Wattpad community. At Wattpad, we believe cultural fit doesn’t mean culturally identical, and diversity of thought helps us to challenge one another to think big and think differently. We consider employment applicants without regard to age, race, colour, national origin, citizenship, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, veteran status, marital status, disability status or any other protected status.
If you have any special needs or accessibility requirements, please let us know. We will do our utmost to accommodate, in accordance with applicable local legislation.
