Senior Systems/Infrastructure Engineer

Factorial

Factorial

Other Engineering
Barcelona, Spain · Remote
Posted on Oct 29, 2024

Hello! 👋

We're looking for a Senior Systems/DevOps Engineer to join the Infrastructure team in the Platform Domain.

We want someone who will add positively to the team's culture, being fully remote and multi-cultural.

We are looking for profiles that have solid experience managing large-scale application deployments on the cloud, ideally including:

  • Terraform or Ansible for IaC,
  • MySQL database administration,
  • using public cloud services like AWS or Azure and
  • operating a Kubernetes cluster
⚠️ Please note this is not a backend or frontend Software Engineering role.

Platform Domain 🌟

Our mission is to keep the Factorial application running 24/7, ensure its performance, scalability and security, as well as research improvements to enable Product Engineers to develop new use cases adding value to our customers.

The Engineering team at large

At Factorial, we have a team of +150 very talented fullstack developers. We look for smart people who are curious, proactive and have good soft/communication skills.

The main application uses Ruby on Rails for the backend and React for the frontend.

If you’re looking for new challenges in a people-first company, keep reading!

Your profile

  1. You are a team player: You are comfortable helping your teammates, sharing your knowledge, reviewing their code and asking for reviews of your own.
  2. You have a user-centric mindset: You know that the only reason we write code is to help our users to perform their tasks.
  3. You are a learner: you want to improve your skills not only in the engineering field but across any other areas.
  4. You are an owner: You like proposing new hypotheses and being responsible for building, deploying and validating them.
  5. You love understanding: Breaking down complex problems into basic and shareable elements.
  6. You are T-shaped: You can tackle tasks in different areas of Infrastructure, with deeper knowledge in one or two.
  7. You are a mentor: You love to share your experience and expertise to help others grow.
  8. You have roughly 5+ years of experience working as a Software or Systems Engineer.
  9. You are comfortable communicating in English.
  10. You can travel to Barcelona once per quarter with at most half a day travel time.

At Factorial we don't evaluate you by the years of experience you have, we evaluate your knowledge and skills. How? We have a Career Path with a rubric framework where we define what is expected for each experience level and skill. This framework allows you to know at which level you're right now and what you need to keep growing. As we love transparency, our Career Path includes the salaries for each level and we share it during the first interview to make sure we're aligned.

For this senior-level position, the annual gross salary is 60,500€ regardless of your location. This includes a base salary of 55,000€ and a variable pay of up to 5,500€ annually (paid quarterly), depending on the company's goals.

Your daily life with us

You’ll start with a 2 weeks onboarding period, where you will:

  1. Learn about Factorial: our product, our team, our clients
  2. Pair with each member of the team at least once, to see their current initiatives
  3. Solve low-stake bug tickets or quick wins
  4. Commit early and often thanks to our preprod and demo environments
  5. Be fully integrated in the team’s rituals from day 1

A Senior Engineer at Factorial influences requirements definition with the EM/PM, and is autonomous to deliver a polished solution that matches those, working with colleagues in other teams where needed. You participate in the team’s decisions through Requests For Comments that you write yourself or reading others’.

You will be a product-centric engineer, taking ownership of big initiatives, and being interested in the outcome, not just the output. About the outcome, you’ll also work with your team members to establish goals and plan a quarterly roadmap, putting special attention to the technical needs of our domain.

You will review code, and get feedback on your own code.

You will learn from the entire team, both on technical topics (performance, architecture…) and core skills, in an environment driven by engineering quality.

You will share your knowledge, through the RFCs you write, pairing sessions, our mentoring programme or the occasional appearance in the monthly Tech All Hands.

Benefits 💆

We care about people and offer many benefits for employees:

  • High growth, multicultural, and friendly environment 🤝🏽
  • Continuous training and learning based on your needs 🤓
  • Alan private health insurance 🩺
  • Healthy life with Gympass (Gyms, pools, outdoor classes) 🧘🏽‍♀️
  • Save expenses with Cobee 💰
  • Language classes with Yolk Academy 👩🏽‍🏫
  • Get the most out of your salary with Payflow

And when at the office...

  • Breakfast in the office and organic fruit 🍏
  • Nora and Apetit discounts 🍱
  • Free caffeine and theine ☕
  • Pet Friendly 🐶

About us 🚀

Factorial is an all-in-one HR Software fast-growing company founded in 2016. Our mission is to help SMEs automate HR workflows, centralize people data, and make better business decisions. Currently, we serve thousands of customers in over 60 countries worldwide and across industries, and we have built a diverse and multicultural team of over 900 people in our Barcelona, Brazil, Mexico, and US offices. 🌎

Our Values 🫀

  • We own it: We take responsibility for every project. We make decisions, not excuses.
  • We learn and teach: We're dedicated to learning something new every day and, above all, sharing it.
  • We partner: Every decision is a team decision. We trust each other.
  • We grow fast: We act fast. We believe that the worst mistake is not learning from them.

Wanna learn more about us? Check our website!

The hiring process

If you apply, here’s what to expect:

  1. A first conversation with our People Business Partner. It will be about comparing our expectations and making sure we match on a human level.
  2. A second conversation with the team’s engineering director. Similarly to the first one, this is about making sure you are a fit and can work together.
  3. A tech interview with three Factorial engineers: This will be a conversation about technology, not an exam or code review. We’ll ask you to send us a piece of code you’ve written recently and are happy with, to use as a basis for the conversation. If you don’t have anything, we’ll share some specifications for you to build, but the focus will be on how you think, not the exact code.
  4. And that’s it! Feel free to request any other conversations you want, with team members or to address specific concerns at any time in the process.

The whole process is remote, using videoconferencing tools!

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