Factbird is revolutionizing industrial operations by providing real-time insights and analytics that help manufacturers optimize their production lines, reduce downtime, and increase overall equipment effectiveness (OEE). Our platform serves customers across multiple industries, delivering actionable intelligence through cutting-edge technology and innovative data processing.
We're seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer to join our growing engineering team as we scale our platform to serve an expanding global customer base. You'll be instrumental in maintaining and evolving our sophisticated cloud infrastructure.
Key Responsibilities
Infrastructure Evolution: Design and implement scalable AWS infrastructure to support our growing customer base
Developer Experience: Enhance our Nix-based development environment and build systems
Reliability Engineering: Implement monitoring, alerting, and automated recovery systems
Security: Maintain security best practices across our multi-account AWS environment
Automation: Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines that support rapid, safe deployments
Collaboration: Work closely with engineering teams to optimize application performance and reliability
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
Rust Programming: Hands-on experience with Rust for systems programming and performance-critical applications
Node.js Runtime: Deep understanding of Node.js internals, performance optimization, and production deployment
Linux Build Systems: Expertise in Linux-based build environments, package management, and system administration
CI/CD: Proficiency with GitHub Actions for automated testing, building, and deployment pipelines
Infrastructure as Code: Strong experience with AWS CDK for managing cloud resources
Cross-Platform Compilation: Experience with ARM64 cross-compilation and multi-architecture deployments
DevOps Processes & Responsibilities
Dependency Management: Experience managing and triaging Dependabot reports, security vulnerabilities, and package updates
Incident Response: Coordinate incident management and post-mortem processes and steer high system reliability practices in collaboration with the full-stack engineering team
Disaster Recovery: Design, implementation and annual coordination of backup strategies, failover mechanisms, and business continuity plans
Observability: Building scalable infrastructure metrics, monitoring, and alerting systems using modern observability tools
Ideally you have...
5+ years of DevOps/Platform Engineering experience
Strong background in cloud-native architectures and microservices
Experience with industrial IoT, real-time data processing, or high-throughput systems (preferred)
Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to work in a fast-paced environment
Strong communication skills and collaborative mindset
Passion for automation, reliability, and developer productivity
Why Join Factbird?
Cutting-Edge Technology Stack
Nix as our development environment and artifact builder - experience true reproducibility
Modern Languages: Deep work with Rust and TypeScript across our microservices architecture
AWS at Scale: Manage infrastructure across dozens of AWS accounts using services including ECS, Lambda, CloudWatch, DynamoDB, RDS, Organizations, CloudFormation, etc.
Cloud-Native Architecture: Support a distributed system serving real-time industrial data
Collaborative Environment
Work directly with a talented team of full-stack engineers
Influence architectural decisions that impact thousands of industrial operations
Mentor and support development teams in DevOps best practices
Additional Perks?
Impact: Your work directly improves manufacturing efficiency for companies worldwide
Growth: Join us during an exciting scale-up phase with significant technical challenges
Innovation: Work with modern technologies in a forward-thinking engineering culture.
Development: Continuous learning opportunities and conference attendance support
Team Spirit: Be part of a passionate team of engineers that are highly focused on being data driven and producing high quality software
Ready to help industrial companies optimize their operations through world-class DevOps practices? We'd love to hear from you.
Apply now and become part of Factbird's mission to transform industrial operations through data-driven insights.
