Senior DevOps Engineer at Imperfect Produce

Senior DevOps Engineer

Imperfect Produce, Nationwide

Fighting food waste and helping people eat better.

About Imperfect

Imperfect Foods was founded in 2015 with a mission to reduce food waste and build a better food system for everyone. We offer imperfect (yet delicious) produce, affordable pantry items, and quality meat and dairy. We deliver them conveniently to our customers’ doorsteps and pride ourselves on offering up to a 30% discount compared to grocery store prices. Our customers can get the healthy, seasonal produce they want alongside the grocery staples they rely on, without having to compromise their budget or values. We’re proving that doing the right thing for the planet doesn’t have to cost more, and that shopping for quality ingredients can support the people and resources that it takes to grow our favorite foods.

We're headquartered in San Francisco with operations all over the country. Check our website to see if there is an Imperfect near you!

We're looking for folks who are positive, motivated, and ready to change the world. If that sounds like you, drop us a line!

About the Role

At Imperfect we are all about groceries on a mission. Since 2015, our services have saved over 40M lbs of food, 1.2B gallons of water, and 110M lbs CO2, donating 3M lbs of food along the way. Our software engineering team builds the ecommerce platform and internal tooling that makes this all possible. The team collaborates closely to develop features, solutions, and systems that enhance and transform user experience. We’re a remote-first team, with members located throughout the US. This role will report to the Head of Engineering, and can be remotely located within US time zones.

We have exciting growth ahead of us as we evolve from only produce to a full-service grocery, as well as expand our footprint to serve an even greater portion of the country. We are swimming in interesting problems around customer-facing features, scale, and logistics. To help, we’re looking for a senior engineering leader who can cover a lot of ground in both DevOps and test automation. This is our first dedicated hire for DevOps and test automation, and we expect this person to be a leader in infrastructure, quality and reliability. You should have the technical skills to work directly with AWS and test suites, and the leadership skills to educate others and institute a culture of quality.

If preventing food waste, being a DevOps and test automation pioneer, and working daily with a bunch of pleasant people excites you, come join us!

Responsibilities

Own all cloud-based infrastructure, including performance and cost optimization
Ensure application and infrastructure observability
Build internal tooling to reduce friction points in the software development lifecycle
Establish and maintain test suites, collaborating with broader team team to execute
Advocate for code quality and automated approaches to ensuring that quality
Share on-call rotation and be an escalation point to the business and engineering
Actively contribute to team and company standards
Ensure the reliability of systems essential to Imperfect customers and internal users
Keep up-to-date with the latest technology developments in your area(s) of expertise
Mentor junior team members

Skills and Qualifications

Deep expertise running production-grade, large-scale web software on AWS
Experience implementing infrastructure-as-code
Experience establishing test suites and integrating them into continuous integration systems
Understanding of database schema design, caching and scalability. Expertise with relational databases, such as PostgreSQL
Experience with distributed, service-oriented systems communicating with RESTful API interfaces. Bonus: experience with event sourcing, CQRS and asynchronous communication using queues
Expertise with at least one modern programming language, including but not limited to JavaScript, F#, Python, or Ruby. Bonus: expertise specifically with JavaScript or F#
Bonus: experience with or interest in leadership

About You

A pragmatic, customer-centric approach to problem-solving
Excellent communication and collaboration skills to work cross-functionally with people in different areas of expertise
A sincere commitment to crafting maintainable, dependable systems
Leadership skills to establish and evolve team culture
Passionate about our mission to eliminate food waste and create a better food system for all

Details of Position

Full-time exempt position
Candidate can be remotely located within US time zones
Salary and employee stock options commensurate with experience
Competitive benefits package including health care, paid vacation, 401K, paid parental leave, and recurring credit towards your Imperfect account!

Physical Requirements:

Sedentary work; involves sitting most of the time
Regular work with computers, including keyboards, mouses, and screens
Standing desks and / or other ergonomic accommodation is available upon request
Regular use of mobile devices, including smartphones and tablets

Individuals seeking employment at Imperfect Foods are considered without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, gender, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, or sexual orientation.

U.S. E-Verify Notice: Imperfect Foods participates in E-Verify in the United States. Imperfect will provide the U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA) and, if necessary, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), with information from each new employee's Form I-9 to confirm work authorization.

About Imperfect Produce

WHAT WE’RE ALL ABOUT More than 20% of the fruits and vegetables grown in America never make it off the farm because they aren’t perfect enough for grocery store standards. This results in billions of pounds of wasted produce every year. We’re talking about produce that is just as nutritious and delicious but looks a little different. With so many delicious fruits and vegetables going to waste, we decided we had to do something.

Imperfect fights food waste by finding a home for ‘ugly’ produce. We source it directly from farms and deliver it to customers’ doors for 30-50% less than grocery store prices. Our subscription produce box is affordable, convenient, customizable, healthy, and delicious. But Imperfect is bigger than just the box. By eating ‘ugly,’ you’re helping build a more sustainable and effective food system. You’re helping fight food waste. You’re ensuring farmers are rewarded for their full harvest with less wasted land, fossil fuels, and water. You’re improving access to healthy food. You’re creating fulfilling careers for employees. With every bite into a misshapen apple or crooked carrot, you’re helping shape our world for the better.

In a world obsessed with perfection, we’re here to show the beauty in imperfection. We’re here to make a statement that our differences are what make us beautiful. We invite you to join our community and help us build a less wasteful world that’s as beautiful as it is delicious!

OUR HISTORY As a student at the University of Maryland, Ben Simon, our CEO, noticed that a lot of food was going to waste in the cafeteria. In response, he founded the Food Recovery Network (FRN), a nonprofit dedicated to preventing waste on college campuses. Since its founding, the FRN has expanded to over 180 colleges and universities around the country. During his work with the FRN, Ben Simon met cofounder Ben Chesler and together they scaled the organization nationwide. Ben and Ben met their third cofounder, Ron Clark, during a trip to California. Ron had spent decades working in the produce industry, most recently with the California Association of Food Banks (CAFB). At the CAFB, Ron developed the “Farm to Family” program that now sources 125 million pounds a year of ‘ugly’ produce to California food banks. Yet he realized that these quantities were still a drop in the bucket compared to the billions of pounds of ‘ugly’ produce that never left the farm. Ben, Ben, and Ron decided that together they could make an even bigger impact by sourcing ‘ugly’ produce directly from farms and delivering it at a discount to customers’ homes. They joined forces and founded Imperfect on August 8th 2015, with the vision of showing the world the beauty in imperfection.