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Devops Engineering Lead 🔥


Embark Trucks is America's Longest-Running Self-Driving Truck Program and is bringing autonomous freight mainstream. As covered by the Wall Street Journal, CNBC, Forbes, TechCrunch and and other outlets, Embark went public via a ~$5 billion SPAC deal in November 2021, and is listed on Nasdaq under the symbol EMBK. Embark is headquartered in San Francisco, CA with operations centers in Fontana, CA and Houston, TX, moving freight daily using our purpose-built transfer hubs. Embark has aligned itself with truck manufacturers [1], shippers, and carriers to integrate our technology into the freight ecosystem, pursuing a business model [2] where fleets own and operate Embark trucks. This is an incredibly exciting time for autonomous vehicles and our team is looking to grow.
To support Embark’s rapid growth, we are spinning the DevOps function into a dedicated team that will be responsible for driving the vision and direction of DevOps at Embark. We are looking for an experienced DevOps Engineer with leadership experience who can be a significant technical contributor and is excited to build a high-performing team to accelerate engineering efforts across Embark.

Role Responsibilities

  • Building a high-performing DevOps team to scale Embark through a period of rapid growth
  • Work closely with all engineering teams across Embark to build systems and services that accelerate the productivity of every engineer
  • Foster a team culture that is collaborative, inclusive and high-performing
  • Be a hands-on technical contributor. As the leader of a new team, you should feel comfortable contributing to any part of our DevOps stack.

Responsibilities of the DevOps Team

  • CI Platform: he DevOps team is responsible for the development and maintenance of core CI at Embark, providing teams with a simple process to spin up new CI pipelines rapidly with full integration with the rest of Embark’s infrastructure. Integrations with static analysis, simulation testing and other complex validation is standard within CI at Embark.
  • Deployment: Building and maintaining infrastructure to manage and track deployments of new software to our vehicles and to the cloud.
  • Observability: Building a platform for observability that makes it easy to add monitoring and failure alerting to any new system. Managing and extending integrations with logging, metric and alerting platforms.
  • Configuration Management: Managing the dependencies and configuration of various server types, as well as automating provisioning of in-vehicle, on-premises, cloud, and developer machines.
  • Solving DevOps problems that are unique to the self-driving space. Building systems to directly support machine learning, vehicle testing and simulation represent complex DevOps challenges.

Expected Experience

  • Demonstrated experience leading a high-performing team. You have previously managed a small team focused on DevOps. You should be comfortable hiring, setting objectives, managing execution and growing a team.
  • Excellent communication skills. You’re expected to work closely with engineering leaders across Embark, and this requires strong written and verbal communication skills.
  • 2+ years of experience with configuration management tools such as Ansible, Puppet or Chef.
  • 2+ years of experience managing infrastructure on a major cloud platform (AWS, GCP or Azure) to support a fast-growing team.
  • 2+ years of experience with managing CI/CD platforms such as Jenkins, TravisCI, CircleCI. Scaling experience will be a plus.
  • 2+ years of experience with a scripting language. Python and Bash are competing for the title of our favorite scripting languages!
  • Experience with infrastructure-as-code frameworks such as Terraform, CloudFormation.

Benefits

  • A full time, competitive salary with equity
  • Flexible paid vacation from the start
  • 100% of the base insurance option covered for Medical, Dental, and Vision and a buy-up option for other plans
  • Life insurance covered by Embark
  • Access to a Flexible Spending Account & 401K Plan
  • Snacks & catered lunches
  • Work in a fast-growing startup revolutionizing transportation as we know it
At Embark we celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
Embark Trucks, Inc. provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
Embark in the Press:The Wall Street Journal – Embark Announces $5.2 Billion Deal to Go Public [3]Business Insider – Embark's Original Pitch Deck [4]Former “Mythbuster” Jamie Hyneman Hitches a Ride in an Embark Self-Driving Truck [5]CNBC - Our Partner Development Program [6]Forbes - The Embark Universal Interface [7]Navigating Highway Work Zones with the Embark Driver [8]
A few company highlights:Embark Blog - Series C and Transfer Hubs [9]Forbes - 70 Million Dollar Series C  [10]Video - Day in the life of a self-driving truck [11]Embark Blog - Disengagement Report [12]30 Million Dollar Series B led by Sequoia [13]

  1. https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/embark-universal-interface-accelerates-integration-of-self-driving-technology-across-major-truck-oem-platforms-301259787.html
  2. https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/embark-launches-partner-development-program-to-bring-embark-driver-to-market-301264418.html#:~:text=Embark%20launches%20its%20Partnership%20Development,on%20select%20US%20freight%20lanes.
  3. https://www.wsj.com/articles/self-driving-truck-startup-embark-to-go-public-in-5-2-billion-spac-deal-11624442400?mod=e2tw
  4. https://www.businessinsider.com/read-self-driving-truck-startup-embarks-original-pitch-deck-2021-8
  5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-02xycYbws
  6. https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/08/ab-inbev-werner-enterprises-to-test-embark-autonomous-trucks.html
  7. https://www.forbes.com/sites/richardbishop1/2021/04/11/embark-carving-path-to-market-with-universal-truck-interface-new-fleet-partners/
  8. https://medium.com/embark-trucks/navigating-highway-work-zones-with-the-embark-driver-6ab8c95822a9?source=collection_home---4------5-----------------------
  9. https://medium.com/embark-trucks/embark-announces-70m-series-c-led-by-tiger-global-14f09a4ac77
  10. https://www.forbes.com/sites/alanohnsman/2019/09/25/self-driving-startup-embark-raises-70-million-opens-freight-hubs-for-robot-big-rigs/#483b2d35653a
  11. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llAQyawBau0
  12. https://medium.com/embark-trucks
  13. https://medium.com/embark-trucks/embark-announces-30-million-series-b-led-by-sequoia-394844f29c4c

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