Jungle Interoperability

Koramangala, Bangalore

Software Development Automation (DevOps) EngineerWe are seeking our next colleague to help us to automate our software development process and to build our new software development automation tool chain.Our Product and UsOur product is a software development automation tool, specifically focusing on infrastructure and services provisioning, also known as IaC or Infrastructure as Code.The biggest players in our space (our competitors) are Terraform, OpenToFu, Pulumi, Crossplane, AWS CloudFormation, Azure Bicep, and Google Cloud Infrastructure Manager.Our products competitive features includeArchitectural collaboration, allowing application, service, infrastructure, and security architects each to control their separate concerns.Resource sharing, a structured approach to optimizing resource usage across stages and projects.Resource relocation, migrating stateful resources across regional and provider boundaries.Impact and root cause analysis along numerous resource dependencies.Extreme configurability and extensibility.Our product is basically an orchestration engine, coordinating provisioning of infrastructure and services in a declarative manner. Its a framework into which our future partners and customers may build plugins (assemblers and adapters). Assemblers are similar to Terraform modules whereas adapters are similar to Terraform providers.Our product - code named the MACHINE - is still in R&D.We are jungle, a self-funded startup company located in India and Europe.We build awesome software development tools for other awesome software developers!Your Job DescriptionYour job title will be Software Development Automation (DevOps) Engineer.You willAnalyze and document our needs for software development automation.Analyze and test software development automation tools from various vendors, including those of competitors in our space.Design, document, and implement as well as operate, maintain, and improve our future software development automation tool chain.Since we build the most awesome software development automation tool, of course, we want to use our own product in our own software development automation tool chain. Hence, as our product matures, you will replace our competitors product initially used with the MACHINE.Becoming an expert in software development automation, you will also bring requirements and constraints to the MACHINE and, hence, participate in product management.Your Skills and/or InterestYou have studied, worked with, and/or have a genuine desire to learn about software development automation processes.You already understand or you will quickly identify the various stages of software development automation processes and their purposes, as stated below:Stage: Planning / work tracking; Purpose: Roadmaps, issues, sprint planning, incident follow-upStage: Source control; Purpose: Store and review codeStage: Code review / collaboration; Purpose: Pull requests, branch protection, ownership rulesStage: CI / build automation; Purpose: Build, lint, test, package on every changeStage: Artifact management; Purpose: Store built packages, containers, libraries, Helm chartsStage: Testing; Purpose: Unit, integration, contract, browser, performance testingStage: Security / DevSecOps; Purpose: Scan code, dependencies, containers, secrets, IaCStage: Secrets management; Purpose: Store and inject credentials securelyStage: Infrastructure as Code; Purpose: Define cloud/infrastructure declarativelyStage: IaC orchestration / governance; Purpose: Manage Terraform/OpenTofu/Pulumi workflows, approvals, state, driftStage: Configuration management; Purpose: Configure machines, packages, OS state, servicesStage: Containerization; Purpose: Package apps consistentlyStage: Container orchestration; Purpose: Run containers in productionStage: Deployment / CD; Purpose: Release apps safely to environmentsStage: Progressive delivery; Purpose: Canary, blue/green, feature rollout, rollbackStage: Observability; Purpose: Metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, alertingStage: Incident management; Purpose: On-call, alerts, escalation, postmortemsStage: Cloud cost / FinOps; Purpose: Track and optimize cloud spendStage: Internal developer platform / portal; Purpose: Self-service environments, golden paths, service catalogAs we are highly focused on software development productivity, we expect you to have experience in using or show great interest in learning about the use of AI tools for purposes of research and development of our new tool chain and possibly for incorporation into the MACHINE.Our PreferencesYou are a senior at an IT university or newly graduated. You may also be taking your masters or PhD.You are fluent in written and spoken English, and you feel very comfortable arguing and debating.You are a quick and ambitious learner. You are expected to demonstrate such by studying any of our competitors products before a job interview, at which you can answer simple questions about their offerings in perspective of our competitive features.You know what you dont know and quickly catch up.You are flexible at working odd hours, adapting to a global schedule as part of the team sits in Europe.You are driven by technology and ambition.You are willing to accept average entry level compensation with a plan to obtain equity based on performance.Next StepsIf this abstract introduction to our next colleague has caught your interest and if you feel confident that you have the skills and/or ability to learn quickly in said area, then we want to hear from you.For consideration, please submit your written application in which youShortly describe your interest in and/or understanding of software development automation processes and tools.Shortly describe your contribution to software development automation in assignments or projects in which you have participated, if any.Shortly describe your interest in software technology in general.Please also submit your formal resume and ensure that your LinkedIn profile is updated to match it.We are looking forward to hearing from you.Work Location: Remote