DevOps Systems Engineer

Who is Wyze?

Wyze is a high growth, Series B, consumer technology company. Our vision is to make great technology accessible to everyone through our smart home platform. Our aim is to serve everyday people, like me, you, and our friends and families, with too good to be true products and services. We want employees who will be inspired by this and welcome all who will help us build the next amazing chapter at Wyze.

Wyze is home to some of the most innovative products and services in the market. Forbes named us in their America’s Best Startup Employers 2023 list, Time Magazine selected us for their 100 Most Influential Companies of 2022, Fast Company named us as one of the Most Innovative Companies in 2021 and PCMag gave our Cam v3 an Editor’s Choice Award. We disrupted the market with our Wyze Cam v1 and then quickly took over as a market leader in the space. We recently disrupted it again with our revolutionary Cam Plus Pro service. GeekWire calls us a start-up to watch and one of the Pacific Northwest’s next unicorns… and we are just getting started. Our people centric innovative vision is not only present in our products and services, but it is also embedded in the fabric of our company.

We were just listed in the Top 100 Best Places to Work by Built in Seattle, listed as one of their Best Midsize Companies to Work For and awarded as one of their Companies with the Best Benefits. Seattle Business Magazine certified us as a Best Places to Work too! We value the unique life experiences every employee brings to work every day. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment whereby our employees are encouraged to be their authentic whole selves and are rewarded for their impact across the company. Everyone is welcome and empowered to do the best work of their lives.

*This opportunity is onsite in our Kirkland, WA office, based in the Greater Seattle Metropolitan area.

Come join us and make the impossible, possible!

Summary:

Wyze is seeking an experienced DevOps Systems Engineer to join our engineering team. This role is crucial in ensuring the scalability, security, and reliability of our cloud infrastructure. The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of cloud platforms, automation tools, and CI/CD practices. You will work closely with our development and operations teams to streamline processes and support the deployment of our smart home products and services.

Key Responsibilities:

• Cloud Infrastructure Management: Design, deploy, and maintain scalable and secure cloud infrastructure on AWS, ensuring high availability and performance.
• Automation and CI/CD: Develop and manage CI/CD pipelines for the seamless deployment of applications and services. Implement automation scripts to streamline infrastructure management and operations.
• Monitoring and Incident Response: Set up monitoring tools to track system performance and availability. Respond to incidents, troubleshoot issues, and perform root cause analysis to prevent recurrence.
• Security and Compliance: Implement security best practices across infrastructure and applications, including managing IAM roles, encryption, and compliance with industry standards.
• Collaboration and Support: Work closely with the software development, QA, and product teams to support development workflows and product releases. Provide guidance on infrastructure-related issues.
• Configuration Management: Use configuration management tools like Ansible or Chef to ensure consistency across environments.
• Performance Optimization: Continuously optimize systems for performance, scalability, and cost-effectiveness, ensuring our products meet the needs of our growing user base.
• Documentation: Maintain clear and detailed documentation of infrastructure, procedures, and configurations.

Qualifications:

• Experience: 3+ years of experience in a DevOps, systems engineering, or cloud engineering role.
• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
• Language Requirement: Mandarin Chinese and English(due to heavy work with teams overseas)
• Skills:
• Proficiency with AWS and its services, including EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, and VPC.
• Strong knowledge of CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI, or CircleCI.
• Experience with infrastructure as code (IaC) tools like Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Solid scripting skills in languages such as Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
• Familiarity with containerization and orchestration tools, particularly Docker and Kubernetes.
• Knowledge of monitoring and logging tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack).
• Understanding of security best practices and compliance standards.
• Excellent problem-solving abilities and a proactive approach to system improvements.

Preferred Qualifications:

• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer or similar certification.
• Experience with smart home technologies or IoT systems.
• Familiarity with serverless architecture and microservices.

Benefits:

Wyze has a full benefits package through Premera Blue Cross. This includes Medical, Dental, Vision, Basic Life Insurance, Voluntary Life Insurance, EAP, Short-term disability, Long-term disability, FSA, and Daycare FSA. Employee premiums will be paid 100%, and about 67% paid premium for dependents.

• 12 Holidays - 8 set holidays and 4 Floating Holidays for you to use however you choose
• 24 days of PTO every year
• Additional Wyze anniversary vacation days
• Principal 401k Plan - there is no company match at this time
• Rosetta Stone reimbursement if you'd like to learn Mandarin
• $50 a month reimbursed as a technology stipend - taxes apply

Wyze employee product perks: Wyze employees receive an array of our most loved products and services, as well as Wyze software services once they are launched.

Employees also get a chance to participate in our beta program for unreleased products to help make Wyze better for all! Come Join Us!

If this sounds too good to be true and you are ready to be part of #teamwyze, then we want to hear from you!

Please send us a cover letter that showcases some of the outstanding things you can do and how you feel they could apply to our vision and projects here at Wyze! We will ensure individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.

Please contact us to request accommodation at recruiting@wyze.com. Lastly, and exceptionally important to us: we are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity as well as inclusion here at Wyze. We are fully committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all employees and all applicants for employment. That’s how we do things!

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $120,116.00 - $175,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Employee discount
• Flexible schedule
• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Parental leave
• Referral program
• Vision insurance

Compensation Package:

• Performance bonus
• Stock options
• Yearly pay

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Experience:

• Azure: 3 years (Preferred)
• AWS: 3 years (Required)
• Kubernetes: 3 years (Required)

Language:

• English (Required)
• Mandarin (Required)
• Chinese (Required)

Ability to Commute:

• Kirkland, WA 98033 (Required)

Ability to Relocate:

• Kirkland, WA 98033: Relocate before starting work (Required)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Kirkland, WA 98033