DevOps Engineer II

WHO WE ARE:

ActBlue is a nonprofit that builds tech and infrastructure for Democratic campaigns, progressive-aligned causes, and people trying to make an impact in order to fuel long-term, people-powered change. If you’ve ever given online to a Democrat or progressive organization, chances are you’ve used our powerful online fundraising platform.

We put power in the hands of small-dollar donors and help thousands of groups — from presidential candidates to environmental organizations — build grassroots movements. We envision a democracy where everyone looking to make progressive people-powered change can easily and effectively deploy their resources, energy, and creativity to shape our country and futures. Each and every one of us, from the political activists to the tech innovators to the customer service pros, is fully committed to our mission.

THE OPPORTUNITY: 

We are looking for a DevOps Engineer to join ActBlue and help us support the growth of our platform.

Our engineering and product organization is made up of 110+ people (and growing!), and we are organized into cross-functional teams of 3-6 people with clear areas of product focus. On the application side, we work with Ruby on Rails, Postgres, React, Typescript, GraphQL, etc., relying on AWS for cloud infrastructure with compute resources in EKS and utilizing CI/CD tools such as Datadog and CircleCI to help facilitate our DevOps culture.

In this role, you will be joining one of our platform engineering teams. The team you would join focuses on high-impact improvements that enable quicker feedback on the software development lifecycle for developers, using state-of-the-art tools.

WHAT YOU WILL DO:

• Work cross-functionally with product teams to improve experience within all phases of the software delivery lifecycle.
• Build tooling to make the development and deployment process as seamless as possible for product teams.
• Implement enterprise-level monitoring and observability.
• Practice and encourage a people-focused engineering mentality when working cross-functionally.
• Engage and contribute to technical discussions around new solutions and architecture.
• Receive support from your manager and other senior leaders to grow as an individual and increase your impact within ActBlue and for the progressive movement.
• Be a champion for building a collaborative and inclusive team culture.
  
  

WHAT YOU BRING:

• 2-5 years or equivalent of professional experience working with teams and delivering projects.
• Experience contributing to the execution of small to medium-sized clearly-scoped projects involving a few engineers.
• Experience in CI/CD best practices, as well as experience growing Monitoring and Observability practices in technical organizations.
• A track record of effective collaboration with other engineers to improve processes that make it easy to build reliable software
• Eagerness to explore and eliminate tech debt
• A team player mentality. You keep the end user in mind and enjoy hearing feedback from your teammates, yet know when and how to defend your own ideas in a respectful manner.
• An inclusive and empathetic working style in a remote and distributed work environment
• An eagerness to learn and grow your skills
• A passion for ActBlue’s mission to build people-powered movements

 

WHAT YOU'LL BE WORKING WITH:

• Application Stack We Support: Ruby on Rails, NodeJS, React, TypeScript, GraphQL
• Tooling We Use: CircleCI, Github Actions, Datadog, Bugsnag, OpenTelemetry
• Hosting: AWS, Heroku
• Databases:  PostgreSQL, Redis

OUR ENGINEERING VALUES: 

• We believe that ideas are more important than technologies.
• We understand that the tools we build have real-world consequences for millions of people and take that responsibility seriously.
• Security is at the center of everything we do. We are always on the lookout for ways to further harden our platform.
• We know that code isn’t just a set of instructions for machines, but communication with other humans; style, elegance, and respect are important.
• We believe that an ability to balance paying off technical debt and rapidly completing a project contributes to the health of the codebase, engineering team, and organization.
• We believe that being correct isn’t enough; respect for your colleagues and users is fundamental.

 

LOCATION AND COMPENSATION: 

This posting is for a full-time, remote, salaried position. ActBlue is currently authorized to support remote work employees in Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Washington, Washington D.C., and Wisconsin. 

Salary Range Details: 

Salary Range: $136,611-$151,437

ActBlue is committed to consistent compensation practices across our organization.  Final salary offers will take into account factors such as candidate experience, interview performance and current team salary parity. 

BENEFITS:

• Flexible work schedules and an unlimited time-off policy
• Fully paid and trans-inclusive health, dental, and vision insurance for employees and their families; plus fully-paid health reimbursement arrangement to use for out of pocket expenses and fully-paid short- and long-term disability 
• Fully paid basic and AD&D life insurance and a voluntary supplemental life insurance option
• Dependent and health care flexible spending account options
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) benefits for employees 
• Automatic 2% Employer-paid 401K contribution, plus up to an additional 6% match on employee contributions
• A minimum of three months paid medical, family and parental leave (for all new parents, adoptions included)
• Commuter or home-office benefits, including a $1,000 home-office setup allowance for all new full-time remote employees
• Additional perks including quarterly snack deliveries and digital subscriptions to the Boston Globe & New York Times

ActBlue is unable to sponsor work visas at this time.

Bargaining Unit position: The terms and conditions of this position are subject to a collective bargaining agreement with the Communications Workers of America, the exclusive bargaining agent of covered ActBlue Technical Services employees.

INCLUSION STATEMENT:

ActBlue is deeply committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity. We commit to retaining, developing, recruiting, and hiring a diverse staff community. We honor the dignity of all. We celebrate their unique qualities. And we recognize the wide range of human differences, backgrounds, and intersectional identities that enrich the workspace and help us better meet our mission. If you feel a connection to our mission and see your interests reflected in this job description we encourage you to apply - even if you don’t meet every requirement. 

ActBlue is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities throughout the interview and employment process, including using our online system to apply for a position. If you would like to request an accommodation, please contact us at recruitment@actblue.com to get started.