Senior DevOps Engineer

📋 Job Overview

Skimmer is on a mission: to modernize the pool and spa service, repair, and construction industry. We’re a private equity-backed company with 7000+ customers using Skimmer’s pool service platform to transform their businesses. But we’re not stopping there (there are over 70,000 pool service companies in this surprisingly large “niche” space).

🏢 About Skimmer

Our customers love us almost as much as we love them (check out our reviews and our NPS score of 68!). We are currently #615 on the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing companies (#74 in Texas and #63 in Software!), on the Deloitte Fast 500, one of Built In Austin's Best Startups, ABJ’s 6th Fastest Growing Company, and most importantly one of Austin's Best Places for Working Parents for the last 5 years. We’re proud of the incredible company we’ve built, and we’re just getting started.

🎯 The Role

Our New Product Development Team is building a new product line on Skimmer’s platform, and the infrastructure underneath it doesn’t exist yet. That’s this job: the pipelines, the environments, and the monitoring that new product ships on. You’ll build it on the architecture our engineers already work in every day — so there’s plenty to design, and a foundation to design it on.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Build and own the CI/CD pipelines for our new product line using Azure DevOps and related tools.
• Manage Azure App Services, Azure PostgreSQL Server, and related Azure resources using infrastructure as code leveraging Pulumi.
• Design deployment workflows for security, speed, and reliability from the start, and keep refining them as the product grows.
• Stand up monitoring and alerting across applications and databases.
• Use metrics and telemetry to proactively identify performance issues and drive improvements.
• Partner with engineering teams to ensure applications are observable and secure.
• Identify and act on opportunities to reduce manual processes.
• Develop scripts, templates, and tools that improve developer experience.
• Prioritize technical improvements that enhance uptime, performance, and observability.
• Partner cross-functionally to align deployment, monitoring, and infrastructure goals with business objectives.
• Share best practices, document systems, and contribute to a culture of learning and curiosity.

📌 Required Qualifications

• Experience managing Azure environments, particularly VMs hosting Node.js, Azure PostgreSQL, Front Door, and related monitoring tools.
• Proven expertise in building and optimizing CI/CD pipelines with Azure DevOps.
• Experience creating and refining applications and tools in Node, with an eye for performance and maintainability.
• Proficiency in infrastructure as code and scripting. Bonus for direct experience with Pulumi.
• Outstanding ability to analyze system performance, identify bottlenecks, and implement lasting improvements.
• Experience with observability platforms such as Sentry, New Relic, or Datadog.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.

🎁 Benefits

Competitive base pay + bonus potential
Generous medical, dental, and vision plans (we pay 100% of your premium and 50% of your dependents’)
Fantastic culture with a very supportive team

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

Skimmer has downtown office spaces in Austin, TX and Toronto, ON, and remote-first employees around the US. Right now we can hire hybrid employees in Austin and Toronto, or remote employees in the following states: Alabama, California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia.
At Skimmer we are deeply committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace (it’s in our values). We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer, seeking to identify and onboard people from all walks of life. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, family status, marital status, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, neurodiversity, disability, age, or veteran status, or any other non-merit based or legally protected grounds.