Cloud Engineering Lead - Remote

About Nabis

Nabis is the #1 Licensed Cannabis B2B Platform in the world with the largest portfolio of cannabis brands, supplying over 300 brands to 99% of California’s dispensaries and delivery services. Our mission is to empower the world to discover cannabis by providing choice, access, and innovation.

Our team, backed by Y-Combinator and from a celebrity roster of tech executives, including Doordash co-founder Stanley Tang, Gmail creator Paul Buchheit, and Twitch cofounder Justin Kan, is scaling the cannabis supply chain with technology with the ultimate goal of becoming the largest distributor of cannabis products in the world. 

The Role
Nabis is seeking a Cloud Engineering Lead to play a key role in our next growth phase. Reporting to the CTO, this role is responsible for routing the direction of cloud infrastructure while supporting the post-merger integration of new businesses. The CEL will focus on securing, scaling, and operating the infrastructure while supporting the engineering development teams. 

Responsibilities:

• Apply strategic thinking to define a vision for Nabis infrastructure with security, scalability, flexibility and growth (including acquisition) in mind. 
• Create tools and platforms for engineers to self-serve their platform needs with the right guardrails. Enhance developer tools, processes, and services to make the development process more effective.
• Operate, Optimize and secure current infrastructure supporting engineering teams in their projects. 
• Build, manage and deploy CI/CD pipelines specifically with Gitlab
• Build and Enhance monitoring systems, alerts, and dashboards for improved system insights and uptime/status evaluation as well as improvement in the stability of the platform by efficiently using resources.
• Continue and enhance Infra as code with tools such as Terraform, Cloudformation, Kubernetes, and Docker.
• Lead cloud engineering team both based in the U.S. and offshore as well as hire and grow the team both locally and globally.
• Support Big-data related initiatives such as transactions database, Data-Lake and MLOps. 
• Be a hands-on engineer leading from the front defining best practices for the team.

Desired Qualifications and Skills:

• BA/BS degree; Computer Engineering or Computer Science
• 8+ consecutive years in Software and Cloud Engineering disciplines. 
• Strategic thinking – ability to define short, medium and long-term vision, Ability to lead and mentor other engineers in the team for DevOps best practices
• Excellent Communication – ability to work with engineers, peers and executives alike.
• Self-driven and detail-oriented.
• Expert with scripting in one or more of the following: JavaScript, Python, Bash, Shell, etc
• Deep technical understanding of AWS services, Terraform, Kafka, K8s  and the ability to leverage these services to meet business and technical requirements. 
• Familiarity with security management frameworks, SOC compliance and infrastructure security, encryption, SSL/TLS, OpenSSL, secret management practices.
• Experience with application and system profiling/monitoring, scaling, optimization, creation and operation of CI/CD pipelines. 
• Experience with RDBMS, Aurora, Postgres RDS, Data Lake, MLOps pipelines and similar data tools.
• Strong understanding of observability tools like Datadog.
• Ability to write clean, maintainable, and efficient code.
• Availability for periodic off-hour deployments, maintenance, and on-call rotations
• Familiarity with our current stack: https://stackshare.io/nabis/nabis

WHY YOU'LL LOVE WORKING AT NABIS!

1. You'll work at the fastest-growing cannabis startup in the U.S.
2. Unlimited PTO and flexible work-from-home policy
3. Medical/Dental/Vision: 75% of employee premium paid by Nabis
4. Competitive salary $160k-$180k dependent on experience
5. 401(k) plan, and equity compensation structure

Nabis is an Equal Opportunity Employer

Nabis is seeking to create a diverse work environment because all teams are stronger with different perspectives and life experiences. We strongly encourage women, people of color, LGBTQIA individuals, people with disabilities, members of ethnic minorities, foreign-born residents, older members of society, and others from minority groups and diverse backgrounds to apply. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, religion, color, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. All employees and contractors of Nabis are responsible for maintaining a work culture free from discrimination and harassment by treating others with kindness and respect.