Are you passionate about open source, search and recommendation systems, and AI integration? Do you thrive on running large systems for global applications, automating every aspect of it, and integrate with the major cloud providers or the many SaaS systems we at Vespa.ai rely on every day? If so, we want you to join our team at Vespa.ai as an Infrastructure Automation Engineer!
About Vespa.ai:
Vespa.ai is a team of passionate builders. We maintain and develop the Apache 2.0 licensed open-source project Vespa. Vespa lets our users run big data + AI, online. At any scale, with unbeatable performance.
Vespa is a fully featured search engine and vector database. It supports vector search (ANN), lexical search, and search in structured data, all in the same query. Integrated machine-learned model inference allows to apply AI to make sense of data in real-time. Together with Vespa’s proven scaling and high availability, this empowers to create production-ready search applications at any scale and with any combination of features. Our users and customers are #1 in e-commerce, content, and financial services globally and used by companies like Spotify, Yahoo, Wix, and many more.
In addition to our open-source platform, Vespa.ai runs Vespa Cloud, a robust SaaS offering that allows businesses to harness the power of our technology with ease.
At Vespa.ai, we are extremely focused on automating whatever we do to be able to grow fast with high quality. In all roles, we scale using technology, not simply larger teams. We take pride in being small, nimble, and the most productive.
Position overview
At Vespa.ai, we embrace DevOps as a company culture where we always seek to solve technical problems with automation and code rather than repetitive manual effort. For our Vespa Cloud production systems, we have had this mindset from day one. Tooling and workflows for employees have changed rapidly with SaaS and this will accelerate with AI. We aim to be more effective at what we do than anyone else and our infrastructure should match that ambition. We are seeking a highly skilled Infrastructure Automation Engineer to join our team. This individual will approach traditional IT/System Administration tasks with a DevOps mindset, emphasizing problem-solving through automation and code rather than manual tasks.
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and support the IT infrastructure managing Vespa.ai devices (laptop/phones) and user management.
- Implement a consistent strategy for access management, backup/disaster recovery, and automation access for the various internal tools supporting all our employees such as Google Workspace, Jira, Spacelift, Grafana, Hubspot, BambooHR, etc.
- Improve our continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) system.
- Monitor system performance and availability, and develop proactive alerting and remediation strategies.
- Troubleshoot complex infrastructure issues and implement long-term solutions to prevent recurrence.
- Stay abreast of emerging technologies and industry best practices in infrastructure automation.
Qualifications
- Strong programming skills in Java, Python, Go, or similar languages.
- Good understanding of sound software engineering principles and practices.
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and containerization technologies (Docker or Kubernetes).
- Experience with integrating with various service provider (typically RESTful) APIs.
- Solid understanding of networking, operating systems, and security principles.
- Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
Desired Skills
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, Tofu, Spacelift, etc.
- Experience with CI/CD tooling such as GitHub Actions, Buildkite, etc.
- Familiarity with monitoring and logging systems (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack).
- Knowledge of infrastructure testing frameworks.
Some of Our Tools and Services
- JumpCloud, Google Workspace, and Slack
- GitHub Enterprise Cloud (including GitHub action)
- Jira Cloud, Jira Service Desk, and OpsGenie
- StrongDM, Grafana, Spacelift, and Buildkite
Why Join Us:
- Competitive salary and benefits.
- Opportunities for professional growth and development as part of one of Norway’s (Europe’s?) most exciting start-ups!
- Be part of a cutting-edge team working on innovative search and recommendation technology.
- Work on a team where we don’t believe in silos between engineers; there aren’t “developers”, “ops people”, and “sysadmins”. We’re all engineers solving problems the smart way together!
