About AssemblyAI
At AssemblyAI, we’re creating a leading Applied AI company by building powerful models to transcribe and understand audio data, exposed through a straightforward web API.
Progress in AI is moving at an unprecedented pace–we keep our pulse on the latest developments and breakthroughs in AI research and use these advances to inform our production-ready AI models. Our Automated Speech Recognition (ASR) models already outperform companies like Google, AWS, and Microsoft - which is why hundreds of companies and thousands of developers are using our API to transcribe and understand millions of videos, podcasts, phone calls, and Zoom meetings every day.
We’ve raised funding by leading investors including Accel, Insight Partners, Y Combinator’s AI Fund, Patrick and John Collision, Nat Friedman, and Daniel Gross. As part of a huge and emerging market, AssemblyAI is well on its way to becoming the leader in applied AI.
Join our world-class, remote team and help us build an iconic AI company!
About the Role:
AssemblyAI is growing quickly, and we’re searching for a driven and dedicated Senior DevOps Engineer, Tech Lead to work on and lead our multi-functional team. With significant investment and strong leadership to fuel our growth, it’s the perfect time to join the AssemblyAI team.
What You’ll Do:
- Ensure AssemblyAI’s Cloud Infrastructure Serves Our Team’s Critical Goals. Your primary focus will ensure our cloud infrastructure serves our critical team goals such as security, reliability, scalability, performance, and profitability.
- Help Lead AssemblyAI’s Infrastructure Efforts. As a leader on the team, you will help lead AssemblyAI’s efforts to architect, design, implement and test new infrastructure for our CI pipelines and production monitoring systems which will help our team ship and support high-quality software quickly and reliably.
- Enable Internal Teams to Achieve Key Business Initiatives. You will work closely with software engineers, customer support, go-to-market, and product managers to provide DevOps support and expertise for key initiatives. You will serve as a subject matter expert to internal teams to ensure that the deployment, management, and introspection tooling for our infrastructure is automated, secure, and appropriately abstracted so it’s easy for our developers to use and maintain.
Who You Are:
- You have an ownership mindset- you love to drive alignment among teams and push for best practices.
- You write detailed documentation around operational processes
- You’re a builder - you’ve determined the best practices and direction for DevOps
- Detail-oriented, analytical, and creative problem solver with a passion for quality processes
- Problem solver - you easily triage problems, prioritize accordingly, and propose a resolution
- Self starter - you can work independently, raise issues and take corrective action
What You’ll Need:
- 7+ years of experience setting up, maintaining, and monitoring production infrastructure in a DevOps (or similar) role with a focus on optimizing infrastructure for cost efficiency and right-sizing
- 2+ years of experience managing engineering teams
- 4+ years of experience with GCP and AWS (general knowledge, monitoring, security/compliance)
- 4+ years experience setting up, managing, and scaling up multi-cloud Kubernetes (K8s) clusters)
- Containers: Experience working with containers and container orchestration such as Docker, Kubernetes
- Networking expert: Strong experience architecting, building, and orchestrating multi-cloud infrastructure
- Scalable cross-cloud infrastructure: Proven experience managing cross-cloud infrastructure including GCP at scale that leverages VMs, Databases, Queues
- Infrastructure-as-Code (IAC) and configuration management: proven experience using Terraform for managing and provisioning infrastructure resources in an automated and programmatic manner
- Experience working with monitoring tools (Datadog, GCP Tools, AWS Tools)
- Multi-environment account infrastructure management including individual sandbox development, staging, canary and production
Nice to Have:
- Experience working with Ansible
- A solid understanding of CI/CD, logging, and monitoring
- Degree in computer science or related field
Skills
- You have an ownership mindset, drive alignment among teams and push for best practices
- You write detailed documentation around operational processes
- You have previously helped determine the best practices and direction for DevOps
- Detail-oriented, analytical, and creative problem solver with a passion for quality processes
- Ability to triage problems, prioritize accordingly, and propose a resolution
- Ability to work independently, raise issues and take corrective action
- A keen eye for detail