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Infrastructure Engineer (Engineer II)

LOCATION: Remote within the U.S.
Salary range: $125,250-140,500

Daily Kos is the nation’s largest liberal online political community, news organization, and activism hub. Powered by millions of dedicated activists, we’re transforming media and organizing by empowering regular Americans to reshape politics.

We are seeking a passionate Infrastructure Engineer who will deliver new features in the Services team on a large Rails application. This person must be efficient, self-motivated, and capable of working with limited guidance.

Daily Kos is an exciting workplace! Our site is used by hundreds of thousands of people a day who care deeply about progressive politics and are working to affect real political change. We provide an extensive feature set that extends from blogging to activism and beyond, built on top of a modern tool chain that includes Rails, React, Varnish, Nginx, RDS/MySQL, PostgreSQL, and AWS. We have an energized team of great people with diverse backgrounds and skill sets. If you’re interested in a position that offers more than just a technical challenge, we’d love to hear from you.

Responsibilities:

Build scalable high-quality backend services and productivity tools
Proactively work to identify areas for performance gains including data and scaling challenges.
Partner with the engineering team in building best-in-class interface
Share on-call responsibilities with team
Remain current on test, development, and deployment best practices
Be a team player, share knowledge, and mentor other team members through pairing, feedback, and discussions, etc.

Experience:

3+ years of experience developing ci/cd pipelines, debugging distributed systems, building and maintaining environments from local through production and building robust monitoring systems.
Solid knowledge and experience in data infrastructure

Qualifications:

Experience with AWS (or other major public cloud infrastructure) deployments, RDS, ElastiCache
Experience with Terraform
Experience with Kubernetes @ scale
Exceptional operational troubleshooting capabilities
Interest in working on monitoring systems for backend which is currently written in Ruby.
Strong linux skills
Ability to thrive in a small team culture with lots of agency requiring strong self-discipline, time management, and strong communication skills.

The above list is a set of highly desired attributes; we will evaluate each candidate as a whole. Tell us about your unique skills, experiences (especially outage stories/interesting problems), and attributes that you can bring to such a role that we may be missing and why it would be a benefit to the organization. In your cover letter please share what work problems have kept you busy solving and why or what research papers, blog posts, conference talks, or screenshots have provided you intellectual stimulation recently in this area, and why.

This position is a 40 hour/week, full-time exempt position and reports to the Managing Staff Engineer. Candidates must be legally eligible to work in the United States. The position offers a flexible work environment, the ability to work remotely or from home, competitive salary, excellent benefits including: full medical, dental and vision benefits, optional 401K with a company match, professional development stipend, a generous vacation package, as well as employer-paid maternity/family leave. Our organizational commitment to personal growth and work-life balance reduces churn and encourages a very rewarding long term position.

At Daily Kos, we believe that the diversity of ideas, experiences, and cultures that our employees contribute to our organization help us be more effective activists, and we are proud to be an inclusive and equal opportunity workplace. We have a team of amazing people with different backgrounds and talents that are energized by the day’s news events, and people united by common cause. We’re a company that loves learning and supports growth and training for all our employees.

Women, people of color, and LGBTQIA individuals are strongly encouraged to apply.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records

Note: Daily Kos does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to any recruiting alias or employee.

Advertising

Account Manager: Political & Advocacy Advertising

Location: Remote within the US
Sales Region: Washington DC & New York

Daily Kos is the nation’s largest liberal online political community, news organization, and activism hub. We produce news you can do something about. Powered by millions of dedicated activists, we’re transforming media and organizing by empowering regular Americans to reshape politics.

Daily Kos is hiring a full-time Account Manager to work collaboratively with an Account Executive on the sales team to support and drive the revenue business. In this role, you will be responsible for working with political organizations, nonprofits, and advocacy groups to meet their advertising and organizing objectives and effectively reach their target audiences. In addition, you will be responsible for working in tandem with an Account Executive in order to manage and own the client relationship post-sale.

Working closely with an Account Executive partner, the Account Manager will fulfill sold advertising and lead generation deals by executing paid campaigns, growing lists, ad trafficking, and collecting creative materials for campaigns. The AM will be the central point of contact for all customer service management including answering client questions and engaging on active paid campaigns. This role will focus on managing paid digital campaigns, and also upselling products or add-on services that make sense based on the client’s objectives. This role requires strong organizational skills, a collaborative mindset, and excellent written and oral communication skills. In addition, the AM should be motivated to meet sales quotas and larger organizational revenue goals, while keeping clients happy and well tended to.

To succeed in this role, you’ll need to have a professional business mindset and the ability to operate in a fast-paced yet collaborative and team-oriented environment. Our offices are in Oakland, CA, and Washington, D.C.; however, we are open to fully remote applicants.

Responsibilities:

Seamlessly take over and manage sold paid advertising and lead generation campaigns as they are passed over from the Account Executive.
Communicate clearly and effectively with active clients who are running paid campaigns. Provide timely responses, ensure their campaigns are running as booked, and regularly provide updates and optimization ideas for success.
Ensure all required materials and assets are properly collected from clients to ensure campaigns can launch on time.
Utilize internal tools and CRMs to track client communications, updates and any relevant sales activity.
Brainstorm and propose new ideas and additional products or services that could help active clients to achieve their goals. Renewing, upselling and targeted prospecting is an important part of this role.
Provide accurate and timely reporting to clients so they can regularly understand that their goals are being met as promised.
Be a positive representative of the Daily Kos brand in the marketplace.
Demonstrate strong problem solving skills by handling challenging situations and overcoming roadblocks.
Meet and exceed quarterly revenue goals.
Work collaboratively with your Account Executive as well as other internal departments towards common goals.

Experience:

2-5 years of experience in a digital communications or advertising sales support and/or customer service role.
Knowledge and understanding of the current news landscape.
Some experience working within the political, nonprofit, or advocacy space.

Qualifications:

Excellent written and oral communication skills.
Strong time management and organizational skills.
A bias towards client satisfaction.
Solutions and goal-oriented mindset.
Ability to work collaboratively.

Salary Range: $70,000 - $86,000 + commissions

Benefits:
Daily Kos is proud to deliver a strong total rewards program to our employees.

The position offers:

Competitive compensation
Remote-first work environment
Paid employee medical, dental and vision benefits
Access to a Health Advocate
401K with a 5% company match
9 Company-paid holidays
6 weeks vacation
Paid Sick Time
Traumatic Grief Leave
Paid parental/family/medical leave
Remote Worker Stipend
Professional Development Stipend
Employee Referral Bonus Program
Flex Spending Account
Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
Company paid short & long term disability
Voluntary Accident & Critical Illness benefit

This position is a 40 hour/week, full-time, exempt position and reports to the Sr. Vice President of Sales and Client Services. Candidates must be legally eligible to work in the United States. In addition, our organizational commitment to personal growth and work-life balance reduces churn and encourages a very rewarding long-term position.

At Daily Kos, we believe that diversity of ideas, experiences, and cultures helps us be more effective activists. We are proud to be an inclusive and equal opportunity workplace. We have a team of amazing people with backgrounds and talents energized by the news events and people united by a common cause. We love learning and support training for employees to continue career growth.