Sr. Engineer II - Frontend - Nomad

About the team

Our team builds and maintains Nomad, a performant, distributed cluster orchestrator that supports heterogeneous workloads including containerized applications, VMs, batch processing, and machine learning frameworks. Our customers run Nomad on tens of thousands of nodes, and rely on our tools to operate their own infrastructure and software. The Nomad Engineering team cares deeply about reliability, performance, and the usability for our users.

Some of the future challenges for our team include:

• Building an extensible orchestration platform for a variety of runtime drivers, devices and logging.
• Advanced scheduling use cases such as managing dependencies between tasks, oversubscription and rebalancing.
• Service segmentation and enabling shared network namespaces among tasks.
• Deployments across a large fleet of nodes spanning multiple regions.
• Debugging and inspection capabilities for tasks.
• Monitoring and predicting resource utilization.
• Building out capability for Nomad to orchestrate virtual machines. 

Much of our work and libraries are available to the community or are open sourced. Nomad and its supporting libraries are written in Go with the frontend written in Ember.

What you’ll do (responsibilities)

• Work with the design team to define and improve Nomad’s workflows and interfaces built on Ember.js
• Collaborate with the Nomad Ecosystem team providing feedback in order to best improve and leverage our backend interfaces.
• Mentoring other developers across the team and the organization, reviewing pull requests for Nomad and Nomad Enterprise UI, architecture, and designs.
• Participate in cross-team working groups as a subject matter expert.
• Help the open source community with our Nomad Community Edition sustaining rotation, reviewing the community’s pull requests and feature requests, and addressing issues.
• Give demos of new features and workflows.
• Negotiating with stakeholders for prioritization and planning for releases and sprints.
• Maintain a very high standard for quality and security, and keep Nomad customers’ trust.
• Maintaining a flexible design to allow for a wide range of plugins and Nomad extensions and interactions with external systems.

What you’ll need (basic qualifications)

• Experience and facility with front end frameworks such as Ember.js (preferred), React, or Angular.
• Experience writing automated unit, integration, and functional tests.
• Source code control best practices using Github or other similar tools.
• Communicate clearly while remaining empathetic and kind.
• Have an eagerness to learn through humility and reflection.
• A willingness to advocate for clean code, refactoring when needed, and understanding tradeoffs.

What's nice to have (preferred qualifications)

• Ember.js experience.
• Understanding of best practices in secrets management.
• Experience with authentication and authorization workflows.
• Comfortable working in Linux shells.
• Be familiar with web accessibility standards and inclusive design principles.
• Familiarity in deploying a service to various environments: Cloud services (AWS, GCP, Azure), VMs, and locally.
• Familiarity with Nomad, and other Hashicorp products (such as Terraform or Vault).
• Comfort with collaborating with backend teams.
• Comfort working with, and without, explicit design direction on UI tasks.
• Familiarity with orchestration and containerization tools such as Kubernetes and Docker.

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