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DevOps Engineer

CommentSold

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About CommentSold

CommentSold is the North American leader in live selling technology (ranked by G2), having enabled over 7,000 small to mid-sized retailers with live-selling tools, generating over 166 million items sold with $3.8B+ in lifetime GMV. CommentSold’s technology continues to provide businesses and creators of all sizes with best-in-class solutions for delivering engaging live video commerce experiences across all of their sales channels simultaneously. CommentSold moved into direct-to-consumer commerce via the acquisition of assets of Popshoplive, a community-driven livestream shopping marketplace app at the intersection of social, e-commerce and entertainment. In 2022, CommentSold debuted its lightweight video commerce plugin technology, Videeo, which gives any retailer or brand the ability to embed and go live with engaging, branded live video commerce experiences within days by easily integrating into an existing e-commerce stack.

Live Selling Starts at CS.

CS offers retailers a complete live sales solution. From onboarding and strategy, superior go-live technology, and live selling best practices to backend solutions for inventory, invoicing, and fulfillment–our team is there to guide a top-notch customer experience every step of the way.

Our Engineering team stays close to our customers, building the tools to deliver on our promise to make running their business easier. We make decisions fast, and priorities change as we adapt to the needs of our industry so we welcome folks that relish in the challenges of pace. We believe in quick iteration and in the moment feedback, so we can work collectively to build the best team and product.

This is a growing function within the organization, and as such, there is a lot of room for both responsibility and growth within the role. We have some initial projects in motion to improve our deployment and scaling, along with the opportunity for longer term planning and improvement of our practices and processes.

In this role, you will

Keep our production and staging environments running smoothly
Manage the performance, scalability, and cost of our backend
Introduce and improve processes and tooling
Provide input and expertise in key areas such as log management and application deployment
Take ownership of the implementation of disaster recovery and failover practices
Work directly with our leadership team to plan both short and long term roadmaps for systems management

If you’re right for this role, you

2+ years of experience as a DevOps Engineer
Have strong experience with Linux administration and networking
Are comfortable working on a small team in a startup environment
Have experience with programming languages such as Python and PHP
Have implemented and owned DevOps processes and tools
Have previous experience working with cloud providers, ideally AWS
Have experience with container management software such as Docker / Kubernetes
Are self-motivated and able to work in a fast growing, high scale environment
Experience working in a remote team
Are a strong written and verbal communicator; Advanced English language skills
Must be able to flex at least 4 working hours to overlap with North American timezones; Requirement to work until 3pm EST (US).

We love our values

We’re building a community, our chosen circle, around a set of values that guide how we work and interact with the world around us. Our cultural norms at work can’t be turned off when the computer’s away -- we live these in every part of our lives. Our team isn’t for everyone, so if you’re right for it, the following values should resonate strongly with how you live your life.

Deliver for our customer COMMUNITY: We are committed to making our customers successful.

Do it as a TEAM: We actively listen to diverse perspectives and respond empathetically.

Help each other GROW: We are willing to get uncomfortable for the sake of our growth.

OWN it: We do our part to reach the team's shared goals and hold ourselves and others accountable.

DRIVE forward: We are determined to innovate for impact.

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