About Us
Wild Alaskan Company’s mission is to accelerate humanity’s transition to sustainable food systems by fostering meaningful, interconnected relationships between human beings, wild seafood and the planet.
We deliver wild-caught, sustainable seafood to households across the United States. Powered by our custom-built eCommerce platform and three generations of history and expertise in the Alaskan fishing industry, we constantly strive to meet our promise of a top-notch product and experience. And we do it all in a fully-remote environment that is fast-paced, challenging, and fun.
What You'll Do
Reporting to the Director of Software Architecture, this role within the Engineering team will build and maintain our custom e-commerce platform, ensuring we remain a market leader in the wild seafood fulfillment industry. This role is crucial to optimizing our infrastructure, improving developer workflows, and ensuring the security and reliability of our systems.
Your Day-to-Day
- Manage and optimize hosting for our web properties.
- Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines.
- Collaborate with developers to enhance workflow efficiency and system reliability.
- Implement redundancy processes for business-critical systems.
- Establish continuity plans to mitigate outages and ensure smooth operations.
- Monitor critical systems, proactively addressing potential issues.
- Maintain and apply security updates to core systems.
- Regularly audit hosting environments for cloud cost optimizations.
- Support the data team and developers in maintaining customer privacy and compliance.
What You Bring
- Expertise in AWS services (ELB, VPC, RDS, EC2, Elasticache).
- Experience with AWS ECS or similar container orchestration services.
- Strong knowledge of Docker (building and maintaining images from scratch).
- Proficiency with Terraform for infrastructure as code.
- Experience supporting testing automation frameworks like Playwright.
- Familiarity with GitHub Actions for CI/CD.
- Coding experience in Go, and Bash.
- In-depth understanding of Linux operating systems.
- Familiarity with the PHP ecosystem.
- Strong process management and documentation skills.
- Experience with database replication and business continuity best practices.
If you're passionate about DevOps, automation, and building reliable infrastructure, we’d love to hear from you!
Location
100% remote with occasional travel for in-person team and companywide retreats.
The starting salary range for this position is $130,000 - $160,000, commensurate with skills and experience. Wild Alaskan’s benefits package includes health, vision, and dental insurance, 401k, PTO, safe/sick time, vacation, parental leave and more, as well as a delicious box of free fish every month.
Wild Alaskan participates in E-Verify. Please see the Notice of E-Verify Participation and Right to Work posters for more information.
Diversity of backgrounds and perspectives makes us stronger. We’re committed to creating a work environment that fosters growth, celebrates diversity and fundamentally makes all teammates feel welcome, accepted, nurtured and respected. As an equal Opportunity Employer, Wild Alaskan Company does not discriminate against candidates on the basis of their disability, sex, race, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, national origin, age, veteran status, or any other protected status under the law.
If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact people@wildalaskancompany.com. Please note this email cannot provide application status updates.
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