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Wonder DevOps Engineering Manager in New York, New York
DevOps Engineering Manager
New York, NY
About Us
Imagine: 30 unique restaurants to order from, brought to your door in under 30 minutes. That’s what our customers experience.
At Wonder, we want to make world-class food within reach, no matter where you live. That’s why we’ve created a vertically integrated, new standard of dining that will allow you to enjoy menus from award-winning chefs and iconic restaurants across the country, all in one place. Our elevated brick + mortar locations will offer pick up and dine in options, as well as delivery to your home.
As a food-tech startup backed by top-tier venture capitalists and led by a team of experienced entrepreneurs—including some of the most accomplished leaders in the technology, culinary, and logistics industries—we’re growing. Join us in pioneering a new category of dining called “Fast-Fine”, and revolutionizing the way people eat.
About the role
We’re looking for an engineering leader to define and implement the tech platform that accelerates application engineers' productivity and operational excellence. As the Engineering Manager for Wonder's DevOps team, you will design and implement tooling and automation that supports every area of our business, from the production of tens of thousands of meals daily, through to delivery to our customers. Ensuring correctness and operational excellence while taking calculated risks is the tightrope we need you to walk to ensure Wonder continues providing top-quality meals, while constantly iterating and improving your systems. You will be a manager and mentor to your team, as well as an advisor to your peers, leading by example in system design, operations, implementation, code quality, testing and deployment. Every organization in Wonder pushes the boundaries of what's possible, and our culture encourages continuous innovation and experimentation. Tech not only follows this, but enables the rest of the organization to do the same. We're excited for you to bring your knowledge and experience to this culture, and influence it for the better!
Managing a team of senior DevOps engineers.
Owning and improving a large body of work, whether through large scale deployments or breadth of services.
Working within ambiguity by collecting data to make informed decisions.
Strong proficiency in at least one programming language. Most DevOps tooling is in Go. Application engineers mostly use Kotlin running on the JVM; while experience in Kotlin is not expected, familiarity with the JVM is a plus.
Making informed technical decisions through collaboration with peers.
Designing, developing and maintaining a platform to support distributed systems comprised of both synchronous and asynchronous services, and databases with varied consistency guarantees.
Proficiency using and supporting relational and document databases. We use MySQL, Postgres, Cosmos DB and Mongo DB.
Leading and mentoring junior and senior engineers.
Working with public cloud infrastructure such as Azure, AWS, GCP. We use Azure for nearly everything, and GCP for our data and ML pipelines. Experience in Azure would be a bonus, but not expected.
Developing in, and building and deploying containers to production.
A modern orchestration and scheduling system such as Kubernetes.
The experience you have
Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field.
5+ years of experience as a DevOps Engineer.
3+ years managing other engineers.
Proven experience in leading and mentoring engineering teams.
Proficiency in at-least one modern programming language
Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to troubleshoot complex technical issues.
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
Project management experience is a plus.
What you're passionate about
Working closely with engineers and and engineering managers to design and build a platform and tooling that has a profound impact on the business.
Building a high-performing team of passionate and reliable engineers.
Writing clean, well-documented, and easy-to-iterate-on code.
Achieving operational excellence in your team's development lifecycle.
Writing unit and integration tests that gives the team confidence to make changes and iterate quickly.
Strong opinions on CI/CD and how application teams work within the platform.
Benefits
We offer a competitive salary package including equity and 401K. Additionally, we provide multiple medical, dental, and vision plans to meet all of our employees' needs as well as many benefits and perks that are not listed.
Base Salary Range: $236,250
A final note
At Wonder, we believe that in order to build the best team, we must hire using an objective lens. We are committed to fair hiring practices where we hire people for their potential and advocate for diversity, equity, and inclusion. As such, we do not discriminate or make decisions based on your race, color, religion, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, age, military service eligibility, veteran status, marital status, disability, or any other protected class. If you have a disability, please let your recruiter know how we can make your interview process work best for you.
We look forward to hearing from you! We'll contact you via email or text to schedule interviews and share information about your candidacy.