Merge pull request #739 from gruntwork-io/careers-sr-engineer

removed DX specific role; added new Senior Engineer posting

Author: gitsstewart

pages/careers/_open-positions.html

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ <h2 class="bold">Open Positions</h2>
 
     <h3>Software Engineering</h3>
     <ul>
-      <li><a href="#senior-software-engineer-developer-experience-team">Senior Software Engineer - Architecture Factory, US time zones</a></li>
+      <li><a href="#senior-software-engineer">Senior Software Engineer, US time zones</a></li>
       <li><a href="#senior-software-engineer-brand-new-product">Senior Software Engineer - New Product, EU time zones</a></li>
       <li><a href="#senior-software-engineer-contract-part-time">Senior Software Engineer (Contract/Part-Time) - Infrastructure as Code Library, US time zones</a></li>
     </ul>
@@ -21,27 +21,31 @@ <h3>Software Engineering</h3>
 
     <h2>Software Engineering</h2>
 
-    <h3 id="senior-software-engineer-developer-experience-team" style="margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px">Senior Software Engineer - Architecture Factory</h3>
+    <h3 id="senior-software-engineer" style="margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px">Senior Software Engineer</h3>
     <div style="background-color:#2e3b4a; padding:4px 6px; border-radius: 10px; display:inline-block; font-size:14px;"><strong>Time Zone:</strong> US time zones</div>
 
     <h4>About this role</h4>
 
-    <p>We're on a mission to make it delightful (yes, delightful) to deploy production-grade, customized, secure cloud
-      infrastructure. We accomplish that today with our <a href="/reference-architecture/">Reference Architecture</a> product,
-      and now we're ready to take our user experience to the next level.</p>
-    <p>As a senior or higher engineer, you'll combine your love of software engineering, DevOps, and improving the developer
-      experience for both DevOps engineers and app developers. You'll work closely with a small team of full-stack engineers to make
-      big strides towards realizing our bold vision.</p>
+    <p>Today, we have a library of production-grade infrastructure code that is used by thousands of developers around the world 
+      and we make it delightful (yes, delightful) to deploy with our Reference Architecture product. You’ll have the opportunity 
+      to use your specific area(s) of expertise to make meaningful contributions to our IaC Library and Reference Architecture right alongside 
+      our growing team of full-stack engineers who are all dedicated to making big strides towards realizing 
+      our bold vision: to make it 10x easier to understand, build and deploy software. </p>
 
     <h4>What You'll Work On</h4>
     <ul>
-      <li><strong>Build a better DevOps experience.</strong> We have a unique product that generates best-practices AWS
-        architectures for Terraform and Terragrunt in just a few hours using a collection of internal Golang tools. Help
-        us take this process to the next level of scale and UX as we create the definitive way to go to prod in the cloud.</li>
-      <li><strong>Gruntwork platform.</strong> Integrate your new product work with our platform, which consists
-        of a REST API (Next.js/Typescript), a web-based single-page app (React/Typescript, Tailwind), and a first-class CLI tool (Go).</li>
-      <li>
-        <strong>Open source.</strong> Contribute to our open source projects as needed, including
+      <li><strong>Build a better DevOps experience.</strong> We have a unique product that generates best-practices AWS architectures for Terraform and Terragrunt 
+        in just a few hours using a collection of internal Golang tools. Help us take this to the next level by using the product 
+        to deliver <a href="https://gruntwork.io/reference-architecture/" target="_blank">Reference Architectures</a> directly to customers 
+        and then leveraging their feedback to improve it for the next deployment. 
+        Help us get to the point where the entire experience is completely automated or self-service.</li>
+      <li><strong><a href="/infrastructure-as-code-library/">Infrastructure as Code Library.</a></strong>
+          Create and maintain reusable infrastructure modules for a variety of
+          infrastructure (e.g., EKS, ECS, RDS, VPC, Lambda, EC2, S3, ElastiCache,
+          etc.), using a variety of tools (e.g., Terraform, Go, Python, Bash,
+          Docker, Packer, etc.) on AWS.
+      </li>
+      <li><strong>Open source.</strong> Contribute to our open source projects as needed, including
         <a href="https://github.com/gruntwork-io/terragrunt" target="_blank"
           >Terragrunt</a
         >,
@@ -55,36 +59,35 @@ <h4>What You'll Work On</h4>
           >bash-commons</a
         >, and more.
       </li>
-      <li><strong>Fast feedback loops.</strong> Use the product you're creating to deliver "reference architectures"
-        directly to customers. Use their frequent and fast feedback to improve the product and then try out the enhancements
-        in the next deployment. Help us get to the point where the entire experience is completely automated or self-service.</li>
-      <li>
-        <strong>And a little bit of everything else.</strong> Gruntwork is a
+      <li><strong>Mentoring and training.</strong> Play to your strengths and areas of expertise by not only writing code and working on the product 
+        but also by sharing knowledge and mentoring other team members in those areas. We all have something to contribute to each others’ knowledge 
+        and we are all better as we learn from each other.</li>
+      <li><strong>And a little bit of customer support.</strong> Gruntwork is a
         <a
           href="https://blog.gruntwork.io/how-we-built-a-distributed-self-funded-family-friendly-profitable-startup-93635feb5ace"
           target="_blank"
           >small, distributed, self-funded, profitable startup</a
-        >, so we all wear a few hats. You should expect to write plenty of code,
-        but, depending on your interests, there will also be ample opportunity
-        to write blog posts, give talks, contribute to open source, go to conferences,
-        talk with customers, do sales calls, interview candidates, mentor new hires,
-        design products, come up with marketing ideas, discuss strategy,
-        and all the other tasks that are part of working at a small company.
+        >, so we all have the opportunity to provide meaningful support as a key part of our product which helps us learn from 
+        our customers about ways we can improve and continue achieving our vision of making it easier to understand, build, and deploy software.
       </li>
     </ul>
     <h4>Your Ideal Background</h4>
     <ul>
-      <li>You know how to write code across the stack and have experience in Golang ("Dev").</li>
-      <li>You have experience running production software, ideally with Terraform and AWS ("Ops").</li>
+      <li>You know how to write code across the stack and have experience in one or more of the following: Go, C++, Python, Typescript.</li>
+      <li>You have production-level experience with AWS as well as Kubernetes (any managed offering, preferably EKS).</li>
+      <li>You have experience achieving compliance and going through audits (e.g., SOC2, HIPAA, vendor, etc).</li>
       <li>You have a strong background in software engineering.</li>
-      <li>Your happy place is writing code, but you enjoy seeing it in action with real customers.</li>
-      <li>You are inspired by <a href="/about/#our-values">our values</a>.</li>
-      <li>Bonus points for a sense of humor, empathy, and curiosity.</li>
+      <li>You would rather spend the time to automate a problem away than do the same work again.</li>
+      <li>You have strong communication skills in English and are comfortable engaging with external customers.</li>
+      <li>You have a passion for learning (new technologies and languages specifically).</li>
+      <li>You tend to reject the mentality of "It's faster if I do it myself" and instead take the opportunity to teach others.</li>
+      <li>You are inspired by <a href="/about/#our-values">our values</a> (bonus points for a sense of humor, empathy, and curiosity).</li>
+      <li>Bonus: Experience with Terraform</li>
     </ul>
     <h4>Compatible time zones</h4>
     <p>
       You'll be working with a team in the <strong>US time zones</strong>, so you can be located in almost any
-      country as long as your time zone is no further west than Los Angeles (GMT-8/GMT-7) and no further east than New
+      country as long as your typical time zone is no further west than Los Angeles (GMT-8/GMT-7) and no further east than New
       York (GMT-5/GMT-4). We've found that when everyone on the team is located in similar time zones, it's easier to
       collaborate and there's much less pressure to stay up late or get up early, so this is a hard constraint, even if
       you're willing to work hours different from your current time zone.