Hybrid Automation Engineer

at SambaSafety

• Job title: Automation Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: $75,000 - $85,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Airflow, Apache, AWS, Cloud, Docker, ETL, Grafana, Kubernetes, Prometheus, Python, SOAP, Splunk, SQL
• Location requirements: Hybrid, United States

About the role

• Software Operations Automation Engineer at SambaSafety designing, implementing, and maintaining automation workflows. Building pipelines and integrating systems to enhance operational reliability.

Responsibilities

• We are seeking a Software Operations Automation Engineer to design, implement, and maintain automation that eliminates repetitive manual work and improves reliability across our operational workflows.
• You will build robust, scalable pipelines and services—centered on Apache Airflow and scripting—to automate file movement, scheduled FTP jobs, application health checks, data validation and remediation, log/table-driven alerting, and email-triggered actions.
• Design, develop, and maintain DAGs in Apache Airflow to schedule and coordinate operational tasks.
• Move files between systems/locations and confirm successful sends/receives.
• Execute FTP pickups on defined schedules with retries and failure handling.
• Ensure applications are running through automated health checks and restart routines.
• Perform database data validation (referential integrity, threshold checks, anomaly detection).
• Alert when specific conditions are identified in log files or database tables.
• Modify data based on query results under controlled, auditable procedures.
• Consume emails and trigger appropriate automated actions (e.g., parse inbox commands, route attachments, kick off jobs).
• Implement idempotent jobs, robust error handling, logging, and observability for all automation.
• Build and maintain API-driven integrations between internal/external systems.
• Handle secrets/credentials securely; enforce RBAC; align automation with relevant compliance requirements.
• Partner with Operations, Data, Engineering, and Product teams to identify automation opportunities; document solutions; evangelize best practices.
• Proactively monitor pipelines and services; triage incidents; drive root-cause analysis and corrective actions.

Requirements

• Apache Airflow: Strong proficiency creating, scheduling, and monitoring DAGs; task dependencies; sensors; operators; Airflow UI usage.
• Scripting & Programming: Advanced Python and Shell (bash/zsh); writing maintainable, testable automation code.
• SQL & Databases: Solid understanding of SQL, query optimization, data validation patterns, and transactional safety.
• File/Transfer Automation: Experience with FTP/SFTP, checksum verification, encryption, and secure transfer patterns.
• Monitoring & Observability: Practical knowledge of log parsing, metrics, tracing, and alerting (e.g., building dashboards, threshold/condition-based alerts).
• Version Control: Proficiency with Git (branching, PRs, code review).
• CI/CD: Familiarity with pipelines to build, test, and deploy automation safely and repeatably.
• API Integration: Comfortable with REST/SOAP, auth flows (OAuth2, API keys), and pagination/rate-limits.
• Error Handling & Logging: Ability to design resilient jobs with retries/backoff, dead-letter queues, and structured logging.
• Secure Automation Practices: Secrets management (e.g., vaults), least-privilege access, auditability, and compliance awareness.
• Preferred Qualifications: Containerization & Orchestration: Experience with Docker and Kubernetes for packaging and running automation services.
• Cloud Platforms: Exposure to AWS services (e.g., schedulers, queues, storage, serverless, IAM).
• ETL/Data Pipelines: Background in ETL/ELT, data quality checks, and lineage.
• Advanced Observability: Experience with tools like Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana, or similar.
• DevOps Practices: Infrastructure-as-code, configuration management, and environment standardization.

Benefits

• Flexible and generous Paid Time Off and Paid Volunteer Days
• 401k Employer Match
• Generous Healthcare Benefits
• Up to 12 weeks paid time off for maternity leave based on tenure
• Wellness & Tuition Reimbursement
• Flexible Work Arrangements
• Lots of SambaSafety swag & SambaSafety Events