In just a little over a decade, PitchBook has grown into a global organization with offices in Seattle, San Francisco, New York and London. With consistent high double-digit growth since 2009, the company has become the industry’s leading source of private market data, serving more than 3,000 clients around the world.
As a four-time winner of the Best Workplaces in Washington award, PitchBook is committed to fostering an open, collaborative work environment driven by excellence, inclusion and fun. Our culture is at the heart of our success, and it’s something we work on every day.
Our primary home for the last decade, PitchBook’s Seattle office has grown from humble beginnings in a 200-square-foot windowless room to our current three-floor home in a downtown skyscraper. Located just blocks away from Pike Place Market and historic Pioneer Square, our headquarters boast stunning mountain views, open collaboration spaces and a startup culture that emphasizes hard work and camaraderie. Working in our Seattle office means growing your career alongside smart, dedicated people in the city where it all began.
Job Overview
PB Labs is an R&D team who has a clear mission: leverage cutting-edge machine learning and cloud technologies to automatically research millions of private companies and process hundreds of millions of news articles. Our team is also responsible for building out microservices to improve the PitchBook Platform’s search and discovery capabilities. We exist within the Product organization, collaborating with Product Managers and Designers.
As a DevOps engineer on PB Labs, you’ll be responsible for helping us architect and manage our cloud infrastructure, making sure that our services can scale and that we can meet our SLAs. You’ll also be responsible for maintaining and improving our CI/CD system, ensuring we can rapidly iterate and improve on our services. We have pushed over 60+ microservices into production and this role is crucial to the maintenance and stability of those services.
Responsibilities
Monitoring of Production Systems
- Drive dashboard, metrics, alarming, and notification initiatives
- Drive better understanding of current AWS spend, initiatives to reduce cost
- Maintain infrastructure and tools
Scaling and Performance
- Help define SLAs for crucial services
- Implement and help manage scaling on services to meet performance targets
Security and Access
- Identify and implement security best practices for applications and end users
- Monitor applications for potential security risks
CI/CD
- Identify technologies and best practices for CI/CD
- Drive implementation of fully-automated pipelines
- Assist in rolling out CI/CD processes to existing codebases
Collaboration
- Provide engineers with operational support (e.g. in creating/troubleshooting deployments)
- Create documentation and tooling to support team
- Coordinate devops efforts with partner team in Ukraine
- Follow an Agile/Scrum workflow
Requirements
- B.S. in Computer Science, IT, or related field
- At least 1-3 years managing cloud computing services (e.g AWS, Google Cloud, Azure)
- Expertise in Linux
- Expertise in networking
- Experience with container technologies (e.g. Docker)
- Proficiency in two or more scripting languages (e.g. shell, Python, Groovy)
- Proficiency with version control software (e.g. Git, SVN)
Preferred
- At least 1-3 years provisioning clusters and/or administering container-orchestration systems (e.g Kubernetes, DCOS)
- At least 1-3 years implementing and/or managing CI/CD pipelines (e.g. Jenkins, GitLab CI)
Company Overview
At PitchBook, we provide transparency into the capital markets by organizing the world’s meaningful business information and making it useful to our customers. We work tirelessly to arm global professionals with comprehensive data on the entire venture capital, private equity and M&A landscape—including companies, investors, funds, investments, exits and people—so they can discover and execute opportunities with confidence. Our data and analysis are available through our award-winning flagship product, the PitchBook Platform, as well as our powerful suite of integrated tools, industry news and in-depth reports.
If you are ready to start the conversation about how you might contribute to all the happenings at PitchBook, submit your resume today! PitchBook appreciates and respects diversity, and as such, we are an equal opportunity employer.