Platform Engineer (DevOps, Infrastructure and Developer Tooling)
The Farmer’s Dog is the leading tech-enabled pet health brand on a mission to disrupt the $90b global pet food industry. The company is VC backed by the early investors of Warby Parker, Dollar Shave Club, Sweetgreen, and Glossier.
In an industry with little regulation, constant recalls, and rampant misleading advertising, The Farmer’s Dog brings a fresh perspective that all dog lovers have been waiting for. Utilizing its proprietary technology, The Farmer’s Dog’s first service reimagines pet food by making healthy, fresh food incredibly easy to feed. Vet-developed subscriptions are personalized to each customer, while fresh, human-grade food is pre-portioned for each dog and home-delivered within days of cooking. The service has delivered millions of meals and is quickly revolutionizing the broken pet food industry.
The company was launched after Brett’s battle to cure his dog’s stomach issues illustrated how processed and un-healthy even “organic” and “natural” pet food truly was. After testing every pet food on the market without success, Brett resorted to a fresh, home-cooked diet at his vet’s recommendation. The results were staggering — Jada was cured. Once he realized how powerful and healthy fresh food can be, he teamed up with Jonathan to develop a fresh alternative to pet food and created the product they wished existed for their own dogs (and dogs everywhere).
Join The Farmer’s Dog team on its mission to bring peace of mind to customers, health to their companions, and fundamentally change the way people think about caring for their pets.
THE ROLE
We’re building a subscription-based e-commerce business from the ground up and have plenty of interesting problems to solve. Our aim is to offer a seamless subscription experience through on-time production, customized products and best in class customer support.
How are we different from regular e-commerce? Each and every one of our customers has a completely unique subscription plan and shipping frequency. Every individual pack of food is produced for a specific dog and has the pet name and date of manufacturing printed straight on the pack. The average time from production to delivery is less than 2 weeks.
This role will be focused on devops, infrastructure and developer tooling. You'd be our first hire for this role and we'd expect you to take full ownership of these domains.
Some of the things you could be working on:
- Move towards infrastructure-as-code
- Infrastructure scalability
- Automatically creating QA environments for every PR
- Load tests
- 3rd-party service-to-service integrations
- Easily accessible dashboards
- Sanitized backups for testing/bug reproduction
- Disaster scenario planning/testing (data lost, etc.)
We have a dozen Dockerized services, use MQs and relational databases.
- You should have at least 4 years of experience and a demonstrated ability to build & ship production services. You should feel confident working with NodeJS.
- We take pride in writing software the right way. That means peer reviews, ample time to refactor code, and write tests.
- Comfortable working with Node.js, AWS and Docker.
- Play nicely with others (humans and dogs)
BENEFITS
Health, dental and commuter.
KEYWORDS
Node.js, AWS, Docker