Density

About Density

Density’s mission is to measure and improve our footprint on the world. 

We help companies understand how their workplaces are used. At Density, we build one of the most advanced people sensing systems in the world. Density can tell you how many people are in any room in near real-time, with very high degrees of accuracy and without invading privacy.

We translate that data into actionable, opinionated insights that help companies increase the financial and experiential performance of any workplace. Today, we work with companies ranging from Fortune 1000 to high growth such as Uber, Pinterest, Shopify and Okta, occupying more than a billion square feet worldwide. 

The result: lower emissions, less waste, better access, safer buildings and better designed cities. It is a long term pursuit and one we could use your help achieving. That’s where you come in.

The opportunity:

We’re looking for talented Infrastructure Engineers to help us build one of the most advanced people sensing systems in the world. We’re architecting infrastructure where annual, unscheduled downtime is measured in minutes. We’re building intelligent redundancies so missed events are an oddity. The Infrastructure team is responsible for all of the cloud resources that power Density’s business. We’re a small group of engineers with broad experience and a passion for building reliable systems and thoughtful tools. Our positioning within Density is unique— our customers are other members of the engineering team. The products we build help application engineers deliver value to Density’s customers quickly and effectively. As a Senior Infrastructure Engineer, you will help define, design, build, and manage the infrastructure that enables these products.

In this role you will:

• Own, operate, and maintain production Kubernetes clusters running thousands of containers.
• Be a core contributor to our roadmap initiatives, namely our migration to Kubernetes and re-architecture of internal tooling. Since we are transitioning to Kubernetes, having knowledge of Nomad is not a requirement but a nice to have.
• Look for areas of improvement across our stack, design a solution, and see it through to production.
• Evangelize new designs and work with developer feedback to build a system that is robust, easy to use, and satisfies the use case.
• Participate in 24/7 on call rotation for infrastructure issues. Participate in and coordinate incident response during production outages. 
• Find satisfaction in working remotely from your home.

The ideal candidate will have: 

• 5+ years experience in an SRE, Infrastructure or DevOps role.
• Background operating and maintaining container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes
• Experience with automation and configuration management tools like Terraform, Packer, Ansible, or equivalent
• Strong background in Linux/Unix fundamentals, including systemd, shell scripting, performance tuning
• Ability to design and manage CI / CD pipelines (ArgoCD, Helm, Sops, Github Actions .. )
• Experience with incident response processes and outage resolution
• Strong writing skills; ability to craft clear and concise documentation

Nice-To-Have:

• Significant prior experience with observability and logging platforms such as DataDog and OpenSearch.
• Significant prior experience operating and maintaining high performance logging and metrics pipelines using Vector, Fluentd, or similar.
• Experience using observability tools to tie metrics to application scaling.
• Have built metrics pipelines processing 100,000s or 1,000,000s of lines per minute.
• Experience operating APIs and web applications, like Go Gin/Connect-GO, Rust, Python Django/Flask,etc.
• A solid understanding of Linux security fundamentals.

We offer:

• A company full of fun, smart, talented and legitimately kind teammates. Our culture powers everything we do and we work hard to nurture it by bringing on the right humans.
• A team hailing from innovators like Apple, LinkedIn, Stripe, Meraki, Flexport, WeWork, NASA & beyond.
• $227M raised from investors including Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund and Upfront Ventures.
• The chance to change the built world as we know it.
• You can read more about our values here.

Density provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

Job Compensation Range:

Salary Range: €60,000.00 - €90,000.00

Preferred Primary Location: Paris, France

An important note on salary:

The annual pay range for this position is based on the preferred primary location of the role which is listed above. If you are applying to this role at a location that is not the preferred primary location, please keep in mind the salary range will vary and may fall outside of what is listed. Only in truly rare and exceptional circumstances, where an external candidate has experience, credentials or expertise that far exceed those required or expected for the position, would the Density consider paying a salary or rate near the higher end of the range. Equity may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, depending on the position offered.