Senior Self-host Orchestration & Tooling Engineer

Bitwarden is the trusted identity security leader for millions of users worldwide, empowering enterprises, developers, and individuals to securely manage and share sensitive information anywhere. Bitwarden makes it easy for all users to extend robust security across their devices with password management, secrets management, and passwordless and passkey innovations. The company is headquartered in Santa Barbara, California. Learn more at bitwarden.com.

As a Self-host Orchestration & Tooling engineer at Bitwarden, you will directly contribute to projects that our customers use to deploy Bitwarden into their infrastructure. You’ll be a part of the team that builds and maintains our Helm chart project, as well as development tooling used by our internal teams. This role also offers the opportunity to interact directly with our open source community through pull requests and triaging issues for our Self-host orchestration projects.

This is an all-remote team, and we are looking for someone based in the U.S. We do not offer visa sponsorship at this time.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Become an expert and authority on our Self-host Helm charts and our wider self-host architecture, including: backend infrastructure, APIs, database, web app, and how the mobile apps, browser extensions, desktop apps, interact with self-host
• Refine and enhance our Self-host Helm charts and self-host infrastructure, delivery pipeline, automation, SDLC and development practices
• Support development tooling that heavily utilizes the Self-host Helm chart
• Collaborate closely with our Integration and Customer Success teams to understand client needs and implement technical solutions to address them
• Build and maintain tools that deploy & test our self-host stacks on diverse infrastructure setups
• Add new deployment models to our offerings (AMIs, VM Images, etc)
• Participate in hands-on development of Bitwarden products
• Participate in code reviews, learning and spreading technical knowledge
• Contribute bug fixes for issues submitted by the user community

WHAT YOU BRING TO BITWARDEN

• Proficiency with containerization and container orchestrators, such as Kubernetes with experience with at least one cloud hosted Kubernetes service (EKS, AKS, GKE)
• Experience with creating and maintaining Helm charts
• Experience with Argo CD, Fluxcd, or alternative GitOps delivery tools
• Proficient in at least one cloud platform, Azure preferred
• Proficiency with Git
• Experience with at least one programming language, Python preferred
• Proficiency with Linux server administration including Nginx and Bash and/or PowerShell scripting
• Excellent communication skills, collaborative mindset, and a zeal for learning — your first phase will be learning everything you can from other team members and documentation

NICE-TO-HAVES

• User of Bitwarden
• Startup experience
• Open source experience
• Remote work experience
• Experience with CI/CD tooling such as GitHub Actions
• Experience self-hosting; extra points for experience self-hosting Bitwarden
• Experience with Ansible, Terraform, Packer, etc.
• Experience with Kubernetes security

WHAT TO EXPECT IN THE INTERVIEW PROCESS

• Meeting with our Recruiting Manager
• Interview with Hiring Manager
• A take-home exercise where you can show off your skills
• Interview with the Team
• Additional Interviews as required

A FEW REASONS TO WORK WITH US

• Our user community loves us and we love them. Come to work each day with a sense of purpose as we bring a more secure internet experience to everyone from our friends and family to the world’s largest organizations.
• Become an expert. You’ll get immersed in the prominent technology markets of security and open source software.
• We are dedicated to building an incredible team. Work remotely with motivated and innovative team members around the world.
• Learn and grow. Take on new challenges with the support of your team.

 

In the United States, the starting base compensation range for this role is $120,000 - $185,000. Actual compensation may vary based on level, relevant experience, and skill set as assessed in the interview process, as well as market data by location. See our careers page for a list of benefits. Please note that compensation outside the U.S. will differ based on the market.