Coupa makes companies operate smarter and grow faster. Our leading AI-driven platform connects and optimizes sourcing, purchasing, supply chains, and financial management. More than 3,000 global organizations large and small trust Coupa to transform operating margins, increase efficiencies and growth, optimize cash, and reduce risk.
Joining the team as a Sr. Lead DevOps Engineer on the Platform DevOps will provide you the opportunity to make a huge impact in a high-growth company. You will be responsible for leading the technical direction around our platforms consisting of industry-leading, enterprise-grade cloud technologies. When you are successful you will significantly accelerate the ability of our entire team to deliver innovative products into our customers’ hands safely and securely at scale. You will be supported through in-house training and certification on our Coupa University platform and subscriptions with leading learning partners.
Coupa operates an open and autonomous work culture, where employees are challenged and critical thinking is encouraged. We operate an inverted organization structure, meaning we support our employees, not manage them. This is core to our culture and we do everything we can to foster an entrepreneurial spirit within our team as we strive for personal and organizational excellence.
What you will do:
- Own, build and run a suite of impactful platforms built on modern cloud technologies that provide a suite of functionality delivering APIs, integrations, security, messaging, streaming, identity, performance, reliability & containers
- Develop and drive long-term strategies and roadmaps aligning with business priorities in partnership with the Product Management team
- Build a multi-region and multi-cloud platform that allows scalable, secure service delivery across hundreds of services on AWS & Azure clouds in a regulated environment
- Act as a primary lead partnering to provide technical guidance, support, and direction for several platform engineering teams
- Support the effort to containerize a suite of applications to reduce cost and improve efficiency
- Use data-driven insights across our cloud estate to inform and drive new feature development to optimize usage and reduce cost
What you will bring to Coupa:
- Minimum of 10+ years of progressive experience out of which 6+ years of hands-on software engineering experience using Go, Python, Java, Ruby or equivalent
- Has 4+ years of experience in a lead engineering role, working with a diverse & distributed team located across the globe
- Will be confident in their ability to own and deliver a roadmap tied to business priorities
- Has effective communication skills (written and verbal) to properly articulate complicated problems to all levels of the organization & customers
- Has experience in containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, EKS, AKS, ECS)
- Has experience with data platforms (Elasticsearch, Kafka), queueing & background services (SQS, SNS, Resque), identity services (Keycloak, Aerobase, FreeIPA), integrations (API gateways, middleware), application security, or cloud performance optimization
- Has experience building & running modern full-stack cloud applications using public cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, GCP) reliably and at scale
- Takes full ownership of products and has a track record of sustainably delivering high quality features & managing technical debt
- Has a passion for excellence, is a natural problem solver, and a critical thinker. You should enjoy digging deep to understand issues and like solving hard problems
- Has a degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent
It would also be great (but not essential) for you to have:
- Experience with modern infrastructure management systems (Chef, Ansible, Terraform)
- Expertise in building Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), Infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS), or Internal Developer Portal (IDP) solutions
The estimated pay ranges for this role are as follows:
• Based in California: $221,425 - 260,500
The successful candidate’s starting salary will be determined based on permissible, non-discriminatory factors such as skills, experience, and geographic location within the state.
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At Coupa, we’re building a great company that is laser-focused on three core values: ensuring customer success with an obsessive and unwavering commitment to making customers successful, focusing on results with a relentless focus on delivering results through innovation and having a bias for action, and striving for excellence with our commitment to a collaborative environment infused with professionalism, integrity, passion, and accountability.
At Coupa, we have a solid and innovative team dedicated to improving the spend management processes of today’s dynamic businesses. We celebrate diversity and recognize its value to our customers and employees. Coupa is proud to be an equal-opportunity workplace and affirmative-action employer. Learn more about our commitment to fostering diversity, equity and inclusion at Coupa
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