Description

Once upon a time, we were always struggling with scalability (it takes many machines to process speech in real time) and then we met Kubernetes. We love Kubernetes! but we now need a nani to take care of it :)

Come help us build and scale ELSA, the best AI-powered English speech assistant with over 3M app downloads.

About us

ELSA (English Language Speech Assistant) Corp. is a San Francisco-based startup with engineering offices in Portugal, India and Vietnam. Our vision is to enable everyone to speak foreign languages with full confidence, reaching better life and career opportunities. Our flagship product, ELSA speak, is a personal mobile coach who improves our users' English pronunciation using our own state-of-the-art speech recognition technology.

The role

At ELSA we run our own speech technology algorithms in Kubernetes, distributed into several clusters around the World with the objective to reduce the latency of processing the user’s speech. As a devops engineer at ELSA you will be responsible for the maintenance and optimization or ELSA’s Kubernetes infrastructure to ensure seamless scalability, no downtime and a quick and accurate response to our users.

As part of your job you will:

• Orchestrate and monitor ELSA servers

• Measure infrastructure performance and optimize it based on learned insights

• Manage the company’s CI/CD pipelines.

• Create automated tools to ensure a very high service uptime.

• Be up to date with the latest Kubernetes trends and optimize our system accordingly

We are looking to fill this position in Portugal (Lisbon) or Vietnam (HCMC) offices, but remote is also ok

Requirements

• Experience with Kubernetes and in managing production-grade clusters with hundreds of nodes per cluster.

• Be a docker master, being able to convert local projects into dockerized versions.

• Good English communication skills (both oral and writing)

• Be curious and eager to learn, be a team player and be ready to put a lot of effort in the project

Bonus Skills

• 1+ years of experience as a devops engineer in a corporat/startup environment, preferable more

• Experience with AWS and CGP implementations of Kubernetes

• Experience with Gitlab and CI/CD

• Knowledge of Helm, Kops, Prometheus and Graphana

What we offer

• Competitive salary according to seniority

• Flexible working hours

• Ample room to grow professionally

• Friendly work environment, no office politics

• Experience the true startup spirit of a fast growing and well funded Silicon Valley startup

• Opportunity to work on a mission that can transform the lives of 1.5 Billion language learners around the World

Application

Send your GitHub handle (if you have one) and either your LinkedIn profile or your CV to [email protected]