Senior Software Engineer, Brewery Solutions

Next Glass powers the alcoholic beverage industry through innovative software & technology, world-class experiences, and unparalleled content that reflects our unique and enthusiastic community. Next Glass is the worldwide leader in bevtech, offering a suite of software, services, and experiences to SMBs, enterprise partners, breweries, and consumers. Through the Next Glass family of brands, including Untappd, Oznr, Hop Culture, BeerAdvocate, and Ollie, Next Glass maintains the world’s largest community of beer enthusiasts and delivers unmatched value to our partners and customers through this engaged audience across the globe.

Position Overview:

Next Glass is seeking a talented Principal Software Engineer on our Brewery Solutions team to spearhead the transition of our operational model towards a federated structure, empowering engineering teams to take ownership of uptime, security, and scalability of their products. This individual will play a crucial role in driving operational excellence, fostering a culture of DevOps, and leading by example to ensure the reliability and efficiency of Next Glass's infrastructure.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead efforts to establish a culture of operational excellence inspired by industry best practices, particularly those exemplified by Amazon and AWS.
• Implement team-driven ops rotation and efficacy measurement tied to monitoring and standard DevOps Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).
• Facilitate engineering teams in adhering to DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), and security best practices during the development of new features, services, and applications.
• Ensure that DevOps considerations are integrated into the design phase of projects.
• Drive the maturity of Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) practices across all engineering teams, leveraging automation and best practices.
• Develop and maintain Next Glass's AWS infrastructure using Terraform scripting and Kubernetes.
• Track, optimize, and manage AWS and other tech vendor costs effectively.
• Provide real-time support for infrastructure and security-related production issues, ensuring rapid resolution and minimal downtime.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
• 10+ years of industry experience as a software engineer.
• 5+ years of experience in a senior DevOps or Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) role for large-scale consumer products with millions of users.
• Proficiency in the Amazon AWS ecosystem.
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Packer, and Helm Charts for Kubernetes.
• Experience configuring and operating CI/CD pipelines.
• Familiarity with APM/Monitoring/Alerting/Dashboarding tools like New Relic, Prometheus, Grafana, and PagerDuty.
• Proficiency in multiple programming languages including Go, Python, Ruby, and PHP.
• Experience managing and scaling large relational databases (MySQL/MariaDB, PostgreSQL).
• Experience with Ubuntu and CentOS systems.

• Experience in SecOps.
• Expertise in Performance Engineering, particularly in scaling databases.
• Experience working with early or growth-stage startups.