Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

About Taskrabbit:

Taskrabbit is a marketplace platform that conveniently connects people with Taskers to handle everyday home to-do’s, such as furniture assembly, handyman work, moving help, and much more.

At Taskrabbit, we want to transform lives one task at a time. As a company we celebrate innovation, inclusion and hard work. Our culture is collaborative, pragmatic, and fast-paced. We’re looking for talented, entrepreneurially minded and data-driven people who also have a passion for helping people do what they love.

Together with IKEA, we’re creating more opportunities for people to earn a consistent, meaningful income on their own terms by building lasting relationships with clients in communities around the world.

• Taskrabbit is a remote-first company with employees distributed across the US and EU
• 5-time Best Places to Work in 2022 by BuiltIn. Including Best Companies in SF, Best Mid-Sized Companies, and Best Benefits
• DataBird journal’s “Best Places” Best Companies for Diversity, #1 2019 and 2020
• DataBird journal’s “Best Places” Best Companies for Women, #4 2019 and #1 2020

Join us at Taskrabbit, where your work will be meaningful, your ideas valued, and your potential unleashed!.

This role will be remote-first with limited travel through August 2025 with the expectation that employees will begin working 2 days per week in our dedicated office space in New York City starting September 2025. 

About Role:

Taskrabbit is looking for an experienced Senior DevOps Engineer to help lead the next phase of taskrabbit’s growth.

As a Senior DevOps Engineer you will implement fault-resistant, highly available infrastructure. You will assist and drive incidents, develop and implement processes and policies. 

Join us in transforming lives, one task at a time.

 

What You’ll Work On: 

• Building and maintaining CI / CD pipelines from scratch for testing and releasing configuration and software.
• Monitor and resolve issues in all environments using tools such as DataDog, PagerDuty, AWS logs.
• Engage in capacity planning and demand forecasting, anticipating performance bottlenecks, and scaling the environment as needed using DataDog and other tools.
• Design and implement zero-downtime to accomplish highly available service (99.9%).
• Ensure systems are secure against cyberthreats and implement fixes for Security vulnerabilities.
• Automate tasks and develop tools to increase engineering efficiency and visibility.
• Design and implement disaster recovery (DR) between different regions in cloud providers such as AWS.
• Manage web domain and certificates.
• Troubleshoot production and testing environment issues, including performance and function issues.
• Provide support to the organization through on-call, resolving issues and driving infrastructure changes.
•  Identify, define and document system requirements and recommend solutions to management.
• Perform on-call duties and be part of the on-call rotations

 

Your Areas of Expertise:

• At least 5+ years of experience in Infrastructure and DevOps Space.
• Experience with build automation and configuration management tools (e.g. Ansible, Puppet, Chef.)
• Strong knowledge of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) ecosystem and other core AWS technologies, ElasticSearch Service, RDS, WAF, CloudFront, Kubernetes etc.
• You have worked with common infrastructure tools like Docker, Terraform, Helm, Github Actions, ArgoCD
• Experience with a microservice architecture running in containers (Docker or other containerisation technology)
• Experience supporting 24x7, high availability internet application environments that include web, application, and database servers and load balancing systems.
• Experience working with a product that has end-users
• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, or equivalent experience
• AWS Certification a plus
• Excellent written and communication skills
• A strong ownership attitude and a track record of taking responsibility for problems and pushing through to resolution
• Software development background is a plus
• Experience in a startup environment is a plus

 

Compensation & Benefits: 

At Taskrabbit, our approach to compensation is designed to be competitive, transparent and equitable.  total compensation consists of base pay + bonus + benefits + perks.

The base pay range for this position is $115,000 - $160,000. This range is representative of base pay only, and does not i