What's the role?

As a Principal Devops Engineer, you'll have the opportunity to work on this amazing product. Within the cross-functional and self-organized team, you’ll have fun working on systems under huge load and storing a vast amount of data in the very heart of our platform - the Delivery Platform. You will help run it on production with full control and responsibility. Your role encompasses defining and working on features and technical tasks in a self-directed fashion, supporting your colleagues with technical challenges, working with product management to analyse requirements, talking to stakeholders, designing, implementing, and documenting solutions as well as testing and reviewing your colleagues' work.

• Architecture, design, develop, test the backend components
• Evaluate and choose technologies suitable for work
• Elaboration and refinement of user stories
• Development infrastructure (build, testing, continuous integration, delivery)
• Run, monitor, and support in production, ensure our customers receive world-class service by periodically participating in 24x7 on-call shifts
• Team ceremonies (planning, demo, triage, retrospective)
• Communicate effectively about decisions, direction, and progress, both inside and outside the team

Who are you?

An ambitious team-player who has experience developing and deploying production-grade services. You have experience with the production software lifecycle, as well as deployment of software to production ready, stable environments. You have 10+ years of professional software development and deployment experience including knowledge of continuous integration, continuous delivery, and automated testing disciplines. You also have good interpersonal skills and feel comfortable coordinating across teams in multiple design centres across the globe.

• 10+ years of experience in DevOps practices, specializing in distributed systems with expertise in tools like Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, and Puppet.
• Leading and mentoring DevOps teams, fostering a culture of collaboration and automation.
• Deep understanding of AWS cloud-based technologies, focusing on scalable infrastructure and automation.
• Proficiency in CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation tools such as GitLab, Jenkins, and similar systems.
• Strong background in Python scripting, with an emphasis on automation and optimization.
• Proven experience managing and deploying high-scale services that handle and store petabytes of data, ensuring reliability and performance.
• Comfortable with 24/7 shifts, maintaining critical systems and ensuring uptime.
• Passionate about leveraging cutting-edge technologies to continuously improve infrastructure and deployment processes.
• Expertise in high-throughput, low-latency systems at scale, focusing on reliability, performance, and security.
• Enthusiastic about DevOps methodologies, driving automation, stability, and efficiency across the software development lifecycle.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to solve complex infrastructure and operational challenges.

HERE is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, age, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, parental status, religion, sex, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics.

Who are we?

HERE Technologies is a location data and technology platform company. We empower our customers to achieve better outcomes – from helping a city manage its infrastructure or a business optimize its assets to guiding drivers to their destination safely.

At HERE we take it upon ourselves to be the change we wish to see. We create solutions that fuel innovation, provide opportunity and foster inclusion to improve people’s lives. If you are inspired by an open world and driven to create positive change, join us. Learn more about us on our YouTube Channel.

HERE is looking for Principal Software Engineers to join its fast-growing and highly motivated Delivery Platform team. The Delivery Platform team is responsible for providing the enabling layers to the HERE Platform through identity and access management, accounting, billing, container orchestration, cloud abstraction, big data management, processing, and streaming services. The Delivery Platform services are mission-critical and meet demanding compliance, security, performance, and uptime requirements.