Building the observability platform for the next-generation grocery ecommerce suite that´s changing the way the world shops
At Ocado Technology, we’re an ambitious global company completely transforming the way the world shops with our cutting-edge AI, ML and robotic technology. With our retail partners spanning the globe, there’s a huge amount of growth and opportunity.
The Engineering Productivity stream mission is to enable teams through technology and engineering practice to improve productivity and effectiveness.
The Observability area focuses on the needs of those streams to observe application performance, outcome and value.
You will be part of a team comprising other Software and DevOps engineers, a Team Lead, and a Product Manager. You will enable our developers to understand what's happening across all the environments and among the technologies, so they can detect and resolve issues to keep our systems efficient and reliable and our customers happy.
Our primary programming language is Java, and with a DevOps mindset we make the best use of the latest technologies and platforms like Terraform, AWS, GCP, Grafana, PagerDuty, etc.
Based in our Barcelona office in the heart of the 22@ hub, this amazing community of 27+ nationalities offers an unparalleled culture focused on growth and learning.
Some things you might work on:
• Find the right tools and practices in the Observability domain to help our product teams on supporting their applications.
• Enable solutions for monitoring, root cause finding, reliability tracking with a zero or minimal configuration objective.
• Support the teams in their Observability journey (Best practices, hands-on help, training sessions & workshop)
• Develop, build and support the software & tools we need internally.
• Build “the glue” in our Ocado Technology Platform to provide our bespoke and our externally managed solutions to our product teams.
• Participating in out-of-hours support rota where agreed
• Tech stack: Java, Python, Kotlin, Swift, Firebase, Terraform, Docker, AWS, Google
• Cloud Platform, ELK, New Relic, Cloudwatch, Prometheus, Grafana and more
We’re looking for someone who has:
• Familiarity or high interest with observability and monitoring
• High interest in DevOps culture and automation mindset.
• Computer Science (or related subject) engineering degree
• Good spoken and written English
• OOP and software design skills
• Experience in Java
• Passionate about developing high-quality enterprise software
• Happy to take an active role in supporting the business needs
• Passion and understanding of TDD and Clean Code
• Experience working in a continuous delivery environment
Desirable
• Terraform, Serverless, scripting, CI/CD
• Knowledge of AWS/Cloud environments
• Knowledge of containerisation technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, …)
Curious about our hiring process? See here
Who we are
We champion a value-led culture to get our teams working at their very best and to help create a collaborative working environment with inspiring projects that our people love. Core values of Trust, Autonomy, Craftsmanship, Collaboration and Learn Fast help drive our innovative culture.
Our flexible hybrid working model enables you to combine remote and office work.
We can offer technically stretching work, a competitive salary and a wealth of benefits that focus on well-being.
Be bold, be unique, be brilliant, be you. We are looking for individuality and we value diversity above gender, sexual orientation, race, nationality, ethnicity, religion, age, disability or union participation. We are an equal opportunities employer and we are committed to treating all applicants and employees fairly and equally.
What we can offer you
A relaxed, international, talented, creative and friendly environment, where we will provide you with the best tools to develop amazing stuff. We invest in our employees, ensuring we provide them with the best in-house and external training programs available. We also really encourage people to attend conferences and be involved in the local developer community.
· Flexible working hours with short Fridays
· Reduced hours in August
· 25 days of holidays per year
· Private Health Insurance
· Life Insurance (3x your salary)
· Ticket Restaurant
· Ticket Transport
· Ticket Kindergarten
· Gym membership discounts
· Fresh fruit, snacks, tea and coffee
· Monthly social events
· Table football, board games and Nintendo Switch
· Tech Talks and internal trainings
· Developer exchange programmes between centers
· English, Spanish and Catalan language courses
We are growing rapidly, making it a very exciting time to join, as we are currently at a brand new office in the 22@ district - the thrilling tech area of Barcelona.
Anything else?
There’s a lot going on at Ocado Technology! Click to find out more about Ocado Technology and our recruitment process.
Ocado is an equal opportunities employer and as such makes every effort to ensure that all potential employees are treated fairly and equally, regardless of their sex, sexual orientation, marital status, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion, age, disability or union membership status.
About Ocado Group
When our journey started, we were all about changing the way people shop for groceries. 20 years later, we’re developing our own ground breaking technology, opening multiple sites at an accelerating rate and engaging in exciting new business partnerships around the world!
Transforming an industry also means transforming the way we do business. As we continually develop new technologies and customer propositions, we’re looking for the Everyday Pioneers to lead us into the next stage of our evolution: enhancing our capabilities, inspiring our teams and developing new ways of working.
Changing the way the world shops, for good.
