This position is open to fully-remote candidates who can work from anywhere in the United States and Canada. Candidates also have the option to work from one of our office locations in Chicago or Toronto.
We strongly encourage all interested applicants to apply to our open roles regardless of how many qualifications they meet. Most of our posted positions have a degree of flexibility in the stated requirements.
The Opportunity:
As a DevOps Engineer, you will own the reliability, efficiency, and speed of our delivery pipeline. Your top priority will be ensuring our product teams can get their software to production as quickly and safely as possible. As part of the DevOps team, you will work closely with the software engineers, quality engineers, and product owners to understand their needs and optimize their productivity. The DevOps team at Vivid Seats believes that the engineers are our customer. A good candidate will have a desire to support our engineering teams and bring a customer service-focused mindset to our DevOps practice.
Our team likes tools and processes that help us iterate more quickly without sacrificing precision or reliability. We value building automation and tooling to enable autonomy and ensure safety. Currently, we are excited about things like Jenkins 2, Helm, and pipelines-as-code.
To be successful, you’ll need:
- A proven track record designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines and pipelines-as-code (we use Jenkins)
- Proven experience working in a Linux-based environment
- Experience building tools and automating processes (we like Bash and Python)
- Familiarity with containerization technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, and Amazon ECS
- Familiarity with configuration-as-code tools such as Ansible and Terraform
- A passion for automation, optimization, productivity
What We Offer:
Vivid Seats is the largest independent online ticket marketplace, sending tens of millions of fans to live events. Experiences Matter - which is why we continue to grow year over year. Working at Vivid Seats puts you front and center at the opportunity to scale our best in class platform that allows our fans to sit closer and experience more.
At Vivid Seats, you will have the opportunity to work with the flexibility and speed of a startup; while operating at massive, profitable scale. We keep our teams lean, allowing each employee direct accountability of creating a positive ticket buying experience. We are relentless and move quickly to release new features and content to our applications. Good ideas are heard and implemented, and hard work rewarded. Being a part of our team means having the ability to drive impact and own the innovation that connects our tens of millions of unique monthly users to the memorable experiences that only live events create.
We are passionate about creating memorable experiences for our fans and the best in class experience for our employees. Vivid Seats offers competitive compensation levels, individual and team-based bonus opportunities, 401K matching, a generous benefits package, and Flex PTO policy plus a variety of workplace perks.