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## **About Us** [Close](https: close.com ) is a bootstrapped profitable 100% remote ~100 person team of thoughtful individuals who prioritize taking ownership and making a meaningful impact. We’re eager to make a product our customers fall in love with over and over again. We 💛 small scaling businesses. Since 2013 we’ve been building a CRM that focuses on better communication without the hassle of manual data entry or a complex UI. We are out to supercharge sales productivity with the most modern thoughtfully designed all-in-one communication-focused CRM. Our backend [tech stack](https: stackshare.io close-crm close) consists primarily of Python Flask web apps with our [TaskTiger](https: github.com closeio tasktiger) scheduler handling many of the backend asynchronous task processing chores. Our data stores include MongoDB PostgreSQL Elasticsearch and Redis. The underlying infrastructure runs on AWS using a combination of managed services like EKS MSK RDS and ElasticCache and non-managed services running on EC2 instances. We have CI CD pipelines that build Docker images run automated tests and deploy to Kubernetes clusters. We also use these images in our local development environment allowing coding locally against all of our services. We have a well-documented [public API](https: developer.close.com ) that is consumed by our front-end JavaScript app as well as numerous integrations. Our infrastructure is heavily automated using Terraform Ansible and other AWS tools. Our product development process is inspired by [Shape Up](https: basecamp.com shapeup). We love open sourcing our code and ideas on [our GitHub](https: github.com closeio) and on [The Making of Close](https: making.close.com ) our behind-the-scenes Product & Engineering blog. Check out our open source projects like [SocketShark](https: github.com closeio socketshark) [TaskTiger](https: github.com closeio tasktiger) [LimitLion](https: github.com closeio limitlion) and [ciso8601](https: github.com closeio ciso8601). ## **About the Role** You will be joining one of our six cross-functional teams. These are the CRM Admin & Onboarding Conversations Messaging & Scheduling Automations & Integrations and Data Insights teams. You will be regularly collaborating with other backend & frontend engineers product managers designers and other teams here at Close. ## **About You** You are a curiosity-led high-performing full-time Software Engineer who is impassioned by the impact your work can have on your fellow team members and ultimately our end users. You value collaboration knowledge sharing and have a good understanding of web technologies and want to help design implement launch and scale major systems and user-facing features. You're comfortable working in a fast-paced environment with a small and talented team where you're supported in your efforts to grow professionally. You're able to manage time well communicate effectively and collaborate in a fully distributed team. **Come help us with projects like...** - Conceiving designing building and launching new user-facing features - Implementing new AI features to turbocharge our customers’ daily tasks - Improving the performance and scalability of our GraphQL and [REST](https: developer.close.com ) API - Improving how we [sync](https: close.com emailing ) millions of sales emails and calendar events each month - Working with Twilio's API WebSockets and WebRTC to improve our [calling features](https: close.com calling ) - Building user-facing analytics features that provide actionable insights based on sales activity data - Improving our Elasticsearch-backed powerful search features - Improving our internal messaging infrastructure using streaming technologies like Kafka and Redis Building new and enhancing existing integrations with other SaaS platforms like Google’s G Suite Zapier and web conferencing providersEnhancing our web app with real-time updates powered by GraphQL Subscriptions - Leveraging the latest AI LLMs from providers like OpenAI Groq and AssemblyAI **Help manage our ever growing data processing needs…** - Billions of Mongo documents - Millions and millions of rows of PostgreSQL data - 55 Terabytes of logs month - 500 billion OTEL spans over the last 30 days - 10+ million events day - Tens of thousands of docker containers - 7 million minutes of call recordings month - Petabytes month of network traffic **Requirements...** - Senior 1 & 2 level candidates should have 5+ years of experience building modern back-end systems. - Staff level candidates should have 8+ years of experience. - Professional Python experience is preferred but a working knowledge of Python with additional experience in other languages is acceptable if you have a desire to work with Python. - You have built web APIs that were Internet facing or supported other high volume loads. - You have hands-on production experience working with MongoDB PostgreSQL Elasticsearch or similar data stores. - You have experience designing scaling debugging and optimizing systems to make them fast and reliable. - You have participated in code reviews and provided overall code quality suggestions to help maintain the structure and quality of the codebase. - You care about the craftsmanship of the code and systems you produce. - You are able to speak and write in English - You are located in the USA (ET CT MT PT) **Bonus point if you have…** - Contributed open source code related to our tech stack. - Led small project teams building and launching features. - Built B2B SaaS products. - Implemented features that leveraged AI to deliver unimaginable new product capabilities. - Worked with complex architectures that support multiple APIs (e.g. REST GQL WebSockets) as well as async task and event processing frameworks. ## Benefits - Competitive compensation including an organization-wide goal-based bonus - Paid Time Off: 5 Weeks PTO upon joining + Winter Holiday Break. Each year with the company you’ll receive 2 additional PTO days - 80% Work Option: Work with your manager to choose between working 5 day weeks (standard full-time) or 4 day weeks @ 80% pay - Paid Parental Leave for primary and secondary caregivers - Sabbatical: After 5 years with the team you’re eligible for a 1 month paid sabbatical - Healthcare (US residents): Medical Dental Vision with HSA option (US residents) Dependent care FSA (US residents) - 401k (US residents): We match 6% contributions with immediate vesting ## Our Values Build a house you want to live in - Examine long-term thinking and action No BS - Practice transparency and honesty especially when it’s hard Invest in each other - Build successful relationships with your coworkers and customers Discipline equals freedom - Keep your word to yourself and others Strive for greatness - Constantly challenge yourself and others ## Learn More Listen to our CEO and Founder Steli Efti tell the story of Close’s journey in the [$0-30m Blueprint](https: www.close.com blueprint). Watch [our culture video](https: www.youtube.com watch?v=maXKi1GN2MI) from our 2023 team retreat in Milan. Every year our entire team gathers in person to build connection foster cross-functional collaboration and have fun. In 2025 we’re headed to Paris France. Explore our product. Check out a [video demo](https: www.close.com demo) or try [an interactive demo](https: www.close.com demo-site)! ## Our Hiring Process We ask a few role-specific questions as part of our application process. These questions are designed to help us learn more about you from the start so please answer each question thoughtfully. We see this as an opportunity to get to know you beyond your resume. While we are excited by all the opportunities that generative AI has unlocked we request that you refrain from relying exclusively on AI tools when completing an application unless explicitly stated. Every application is read closely by humans and any obviously AI generated applications will be disregarded. Regardless of fit you can expect to hear back from our team with an update on the status of your candidacy. If you progress to the interview process you’ll receive a full outline of the role-specific interview process in your first touchpoint with us. We do our best to make the hiring process clear and human. Compensation Range: $140K - $210K... Click to read more.

Hands-on experience in any Public Cloud Infrastructure (AWS Azure GCP IBM)... Click to read more.

Technische inrichting en beheer van de (cloud) omgevingen;Uitvoeren van upgrades (nieuwe versies van componenten) en updates (patches);Automation middels Red Hat Ansible (gecertificeerd of aangetoonde werkervaring);Minimaal Red Hat RHCSA certificering (of aangetoonde werkervaring).Bekend met hosting (IaaS en PaaS) hoge beschikbaarheid hoge performance schaalbaarheid en met security best practices;Kennis van Linux (RHEL 8 en of 9);Scripting met name Ansible Infrastructure Configuration as Code (met name Ansible) - Scripting (met name Python of PowerShell);Containertechnieken (Kubernetes);Ervaring met Hyperconverged Infrastructure (bijvoorbeeld Nutanix).Diversiteit is veel meer dan hoe we eruit zien of waar we vandaan komen; het is hoe we denken en wie we zijn. We verwelkomen mensen van alle culturen achtergronden en ervaringen. Deze toewijding om iedereen welkom te heten in ons bedrijf betekent dat Kyndryl jou - en iedereen naast je - de mogelijkheid geeft om je volledig in te zetten in je werk zowel persoonlijk als in samenwerking met je collega's en actief bij te dragen aan onze cultuur die inclusie en rechtvaardigheid centraal stelt. Onze Kyndryl Inclusion Networks - onze employee resource groups (ERGs) - zijn slechts één van de vele manieren waarop we een werkomgeving creëren waarin alle Kyndryls steun en advies kunnen vinden én geven.... Click to read more.

## **About Us** [Close](https: close.com ) is a bootstrapped profitable 100% remote ~100 person team of thoughtful individuals who prioritize taking ownership and making a meaningful impact. We’re eager to make a product our customers fall in love with over and over again. We 💛 small scaling businesses. Since 2013 we’ve been building a CRM that focuses on better communication without the hassle of manual data entry or a complex UI. We are out to supercharge sales productivity with the most modern thoughtfully designed all-in-one communication-focused CRM. Our backend [tech stack](https: stackshare.io close-crm close) consists primarily of Python Flask web apps with our [TaskTiger](https: github.com closeio tasktiger) scheduler handling many of the backend asynchronous task processing chores. Our data stores include MongoDB PostgreSQL Elasticsearch and Redis. The underlying infrastructure runs on AWS using a combination of managed services like EKS MSK RDS and ElasticCache and non-managed services running on EC2 instances. We have CI CD pipelines that build Docker images run automated tests and deploy to Kubernetes clusters. We also use these images in our local development environment allowing coding locally against all of our services. We have a well-documented [public API](https: developer.close.com ) that is consumed by our front-end JavaScript app as well as numerous integrations. Our infrastructure is heavily automated using Terraform Ansible and other AWS tools. Our product development process is inspired by [Shape Up](https: basecamp.com shapeup). We love open sourcing our code and ideas on [our GitHub](https: github.com closeio) and on [The Making of Close](https: making.close.com ) our behind-the-scenes Product & Engineering blog. Check out our open source projects like [close-mongo-ops-manager](https: github.com closeio close-mongo-ops-manager) [SocketShark](https: github.com closeio socketshark) [TaskTiger](https: github.com closeio tasktiger) [LimitLion](https: github.com closeio limitlion) and [ciso8601](https: github.com closeio ciso8601). ## **About the Role** You will be joining the Infrastructure Team at Close. This team builds and maintains the platform that runs all Close systems (and do we have a lot of those). Work with us and you’ll be working with: - Multi-terrabyte [MongoDB](https: www.mongodb.com ) [PostgreSQL](https: www.postgresql.org ) and [Elasticsearch](https: www.elastic.co elasticsearch) clusters - Telemetry systems built on [Grafana’s LGTM](https: grafana.com go webinar getting-started-with-grafana-lgtm-stack ) stack and [ClickHouse](https: clickhouse.com ) processing over 130 TB per month - Multiple [Kubernetes](https: kubernetes.io ) clusters running tens of thousands of pods - [Github Actions](https: docs.github.com en actions hosting-your-own-runners managing-self-hosted-runners about-self-hosted-runners) & [ArgoCD](https: argo-cd.readthedocs.io en stable ) powered CI CD that can go from merged to production to rolled back in 10 minutes - A system that is stable up to date and hasn’t needed scheduled downtime in 4 years ## **About You** - You are a rock in the storm. With your hard won expertise gained through battles won and lost you consistently build robust systems from quality components fit to underpin mission critical applications. You value simplicity over familiarity. You value resilience over speed. You take pride in building composable and maintainable tools. - You’ve worked with a diverse array of infrastructure tools and systems including: - CICD (CircleCI GitHub Actions ArgoCD) - Configuration Management (Ansible Terraform) - Databases (Elasticsearch MongoDB PostgreSQL ClickHouse) - Cloud Computing (Kubernetes AWS) - Telemetry (Loki Tempo Grafana Mimir Prometheus) - You're comfortable working in a fast-paced environment with a small and talented team where you're supported in your efforts to grow professionally. You're able to manage time well communicate effectively and collaborate in a fully distributed team. ## **Come help us with projects like...** - Fully automating our database’s lifecycles with Argo Workflow - Eliminating all static credentials where they may be - Reducing downtime and disruption due to maintenance or disaster to new lows - Help us improve our multi-region disaster recovery system. ## **Requirements...** - Senior 1 & 2 level candidates should have 5+ years of experience building modern infrastructure systems. - Staff level candidates should have 8+ years of experience. - The buck stops with you! You are the kind of person who is respected as an expert on the systems you run. - You have been the final point of escalation in the support of mission critical production systems - You are familiar with some of the following technologies: AWS Terraform Kubernetes Ansible MongoDB PostgreSQL Elasticsearch - You have a strong grasp of common networking and data transfer protocols such as DNS HTTP TCP - You are able to speak and write in English - You are located in the USA (ET CT MT PT) ## **Bonus point if you have…** - Contributed open source code related to our tech stack. - Have experience maintaining very large databases - Has been through a successful disaster response - Have experience with multi-region architectures - Have run MLOps systems - Experience scaling Temporal ## **Benefits** - Competitive compensation including an organization-wide goal-based bonus - Paid Time Off: 5 Weeks PTO upon joining + Winter Holiday Break. Each year with the company you’ll receive 2 additional PTO days - 80% Work Option: Work with your manager to choose between working 5 day weeks (standard full-time) or 4 day weeks @ 80% pay - Paid Parental Leave for primary and secondary caregivers - Sabbatical: After 5 years with the team you’re eligible for a 1 month paid sabbatical - Healthcare (US residents): Medical Dental Vision with HSA option (US residents) Dependent care FSA (US residents) - 401k (US residents): We match 6% contributions with immediate vesting ## Our Values Build a house you want to live in - Examine long-term thinking and action No BS - Practice transparency and honesty especially when it’s hard Invest in each other - Build successful relationships with your coworkers and customers Discipline equals freedom - Keep your word to yourself and others Strive for greatness - Constantly challenge yourself and others ## Learn More Listen to our CEO and Founder Steli Efti tell the story of Close’s journey in the [$0-30m Blueprint](https: www.close.com blueprint). Watch [our culture video](https: www.youtube.com watch?v=maXKi1GN2MI) from our 2023 team retreat in Milan. Every year our entire team gathers in person to build connection foster cross-functional collaboration and have fun. In 2025 we’re headed to Paris France. Explore our product. Check out a [video demo](https: www.close.com demo) or try [an interactive demo](https: www.close.com demo-site)! ## Our Hiring Process We ask a few role-specific questions as part of our application process. These questions are designed to help us learn more about you from the start so please answer each question thoughtfully. We see this as an opportunity to get to know you beyond your resume. While we are excited by all the opportunities that generative AI has unlocked we request that you refrain from relying exclusively on AI tools when completing an application unless explicitly stated. Every application is read closely by humans and any obviously AI generated applications will be disregarded. Regardless of fit you can expect to hear back from our team with an update on the status of your candidacy. If you progress to the interview process you’ll receive a full outline of the role-specific interview process in your first touchpoint with us. We do our best to make the hiring process clear and human. Compensation Range: $140K - $210K... Click to read more.

: Experiencia en la administración de sistemas operativos (Windows Linux Unix) y en la gestión de servidores.: Experiencia en soluciones de almacenamiento como SAN NAS y tecnologías de almacenamiento en la nube (Amazon S3 Azure Blob Storage).: Conocimientos en herramientas de extracción transformación y carga (ETL) como Talend Informatica y Apache Nifi.: Experiencia en la administración de bases de datos SQL (MySQL PostgreSQL Oracle) y NoSQL (MongoDB Cassandra).: Conocimientos en la implementación y gestión de almacenes de datos (Data Warehouses) y soluciones de BI (Business Intelligence).... Click to read more.

Work with cross functional teams (network cloud software compute) to ensure integration requirements and meet customer acceptance criteria.Demonstrated experience in one or more of the following: datacenter networking (Cisco ACI VMware NSX Juniper etc.) campus networking (Cisco Aruba etc.) wide area networking (Velocloud Versa Viptela etc.) Enterprise wireless networking (Cisco Aruba Ruckus etc.) cloud networking (AWS Azure Google Oracle IBM) and or Network Security networking (Cisco PaloAlto Checkpoint ForcePoint firewalls F5 LB)Cisco CCNP certification (CCIE Preferred RS DC or enterprise)... Click to read more.

Technische inrichting en beheer van de (cloud) omgevingen;Uitvoeren van upgrades (nieuwe versies van componenten) en updates (patches);Automation middels Red Hat Ansible (gecertificeerd of aangetoonde werkervaring);Minimaal Red Hat RHCSA certificering (of aangetoonde werkervaring).Bekend met hosting (IaaS en PaaS) hoge beschikbaarheid hoge performance schaalbaarheid en met security best practices;Kennis van Linux (RHEL 8 en of 9);Scripting met name Ansible Infrastructure Configuration as Code (met name Ansible) - Scripting (met name Python of PowerShell);Containertechnieken (Kubernetes);Ervaring met Hyperconverged Infrastructure (bijvoorbeeld Nutanix).... Click to read more.

Continuous Integration (CI) ImplementationContinuous Deployment (CD) SupportAssist in implementing and running automated security testing tools (SCA SAST DAST) and provide feedback on findings. Experience with at least one major cloud platform (AWS GCP Azure ) with an understanding of how to manage cloud infrastructure. Strong scripting skills in at least one language (Python Bash or GoLang) with the ability to automate processes to improve operational efficiency. Familiarity with software development practices especially an understanding of Test-Driven Development (TDD). Understanding of configuration management tools (e.g. Puppet Chef Ansible) and the ability to apply them for infrastructure setup and management.  ... Click to read more.

Hands-on experience in any Public Cloud Infrastructure (AWS Azure GCP IBM)... Click to read more.