Who We Are
Babylist is the leading digital destination for growing families. For over a decade, Babylist has been the technology solution for expecting parents and the community that supports them, expanding from baby registry into a full-service platform that helps parents make decisions with confidence, stay connected and build happy and healthy families. Every year Babylist helps over 9M people make purchases through its registry, app, ecommerce shop and comprehensive product guides. The Babylist ecosystem now includes Babylist Health, which provides access to products and services including insurance-covered breast pumps, Expectul, a new voice in health and wellness for pre-pregnancy through postpartum care, and The Push, a branded content studio that works with the biggest companies in the baby space. With over 59M monthly pageviews and 1.2M TikTok followers, Babylist is a generational brand leading the $88 billion baby product industry. To learn more about Babylist’s registry options,editorial content and more, visit www.babylist.com
Our Ways of Working
We’re a remote-first company with team members located across the United States spanning multiple time zones. We know how valuable the flexibility of remote work is for our employees so people can get the work done in the way that suits them best. With rare exception, our employees generally work 9-5 in their home time zone.
We also know that personal connection is the foundation for the great work we do together. In order to build community and collaboration, we gather in person two times a year at a full company offsite and a departmental offsite. These offsites are expected of employees and are great opportunities to meet the people you work with every day and to do some of the work that is much more difficult to do virtually.
Our Tech Stack
- AWS
- Terraform
- MySQL
- Ruby on Rails
- React
- Redis
- Sidekiq
What the Role Is
Babylist is searching for a thoughtful, versatile Staff Software Engineer, Site Reliability to join our Engineering team. In this position, you’ll be the go-to person for building and operating our cloud infrastructure to deliver maximum performance at scale. You’ll be given free reign to dive deep into our production architecture, dreaming up ways to bring more speed, efficiency, and automation to our systems.
Who You Are
- Backed by at least 7 years of professional programming experience, including time at a rapidly growing e-commerce or technology organization
- Able to build large, complex, and highly maintainable systems—and you have the track record to prove it!
- Can help plan forward for DevOps as a resource for Engineering, Product, and Data in innovation, training and support.
- Will increase and leverage observability and Instrumentation
- Familiar with building and operating production software in the cloud at scale using Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, Azure, or a similar provider
- Knowledgeable about modern relational databases, such as PostgreSQL or MySQL
- Equipped with a solid understanding of Linux or other UNIX-like systems
- Steeped in modern systems design (you know the ins and outs of networking, DNS, CDNs, and distributed systems)
- An excellent troubleshooter and debugger
- Experienced in Agile development and Continuous Delivery
- A flexible, open-minded developer who’s able and eager to learn new domains quickly
- (Bonus)-Strong knowledge of AWS, as well as infrastructure tools like Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, Chef, and Puppet.
- (Bonus)-Web application development experience
How You’ll Make an Impact
- Proactively identify the needs of the Babylist Engineering organization 3-9 months in the future and develop plans to meet those needs.
- Build cloud infrastructure, manage our production environment, and participate in our on-call rotation to support applications with millions of monthly active users.
- Analyze and implement performance improvements in our API and backend application layers
- Improve our development, deployment, and monitoring tools
- Mentor other team members through design and architecture planning, code reviews, and knowledge sharing sessions
Why You Will Love Working At Babylist
- We are a remote first company and invest in infrastructure you’ll need to be supported and successful: tools, opportunities to connect with colleagues, and a stipend to help you set up your office
- We build products that have a positive impact on millions of people’s lives
- We work at a sustainable pace which means work/life balance is a real thing here
- We believe technology and data can solve hard problems
- We believe in exceptional management
- We are committed to providing an actively antiracist organization and doing the work to support differences of all kinds
- We offer competitive pay and meaningful opportunities for career advancement
- We have great benefits like company paid medical, dental, and vision, a generous paid parental leave policy, and 401k with company match
- We care about employee wellbeing with perks for physical, mental and emotional health, parenting, childcare, and financial planning
Babylist takes a market-based approach to pay, and pay may vary depending on your location. Your actual base salary will depend on factors such as your skills, qualifications, experience, and work location.
The estimated pay range for this role is CAN $180,000.00 - $224,100.00
In addition, Babylist offers equity, bonus, and benefits, including company paid health, dental and vision insurance, 401(k) matching, flexible spending account, and paid leave (including PTO and parental leave) in accordance with our applicable plans and policies.
IMPORTANT NOTICE: Our company takes the security and privacy of job applicants very seriously. We will never ask for payment, bank details, or personal financial information as part of the application process. All of our legitimate job postings can be found on our official career site. Please be cautious of job offers that come from non-company email addresses (@babylist.com), instant messaging platforms or unsolicited calls.
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