Why work at HomeAway.com?

Have you ever had the opportunity to impact the lives of billions of people in a meaningful way and help them enjoy time away with their friends and families building memories? That is what we do here at HomeAway.com. We are the leading vacation rental website in the world with more than 1.2 million properties listed. We have over one billion visitors per year and serve more than one billion page views per month. As for engineering, we solve problems of scale and work on cutting edge and open-source technologies. Our culture is one that strives on solving difficult problems focusing on product engineering based on hypothesis testing to empower people to come up with ideas.

What You'll Do:
If you're the right person for the job, you'll be joining the growing DevTools team within HomeAway's ever-expanding Development Infrastructure environment. As a DevTools leader, you'll continue to drive HomeAway's culture of engineering empowerment by optimizing product delivery by automating the entire software delivery pipeline and building the tools necessary to enable horizontal scaling, provisioning, graphing, monitoring, and rapid deployment on our bare-metal, public, and private cloud environments. You'll coordinate and streamline the development efforts of your team but never be afraid to roll up your sleeves and hammer out a prototype, bug fix, or new feature yourself.

What You'll Get:
As a DevTools leader, you'll be driving HomeAway's engineering culture by building, evangelizing, and supporting the continuous delivery pipeline used by HomeAway software engineers worldwide. Our ever-growing footprint will give you the opportunity to work at scale while being creative on an agile, credible team where people go out of their way to help each other succeed. You'll also get to work with stakeholders across the globe, gaining international experience in a fast-paced eCommerce industry all while working in an incredible office space!

Responsibilities:
- Coordinate and optimize the development efforts of HomeAway's DevTools team
- Guide the team towards accomplishing quantifiable objectives with a data-driven methodology
- Ensure delivery of quality upkeep and training on HomeAway's software delivery platform
- Prototype, architect, and oversee implementation of platform updates and new features
- Work with our internal business partners and customers to gather requirements
- Perform peer reviews and code walk-throughs

Requirements:
- Management experience in the software development or infrastructure space
- Management experience with agile development processes
- Development experience with Java Web Applications, Service-Oriented Architecture, and Micro-Services
- Development experience with Docker
- Hands-on experience with at least one continuous integration platform (Jenkins, TeamCity, QuickBuild, Drone, etc)
- Hands-on experience with at least one cloud-computing platform (Mesos, AWS, Azure, VMWare, etc)
- Excellent troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
- Ability to work collaboratively through an agile development process that promotes constant team communication
- Excellent communication skills to assist in conducting user interviews, requirement-gathering, and design reviews

Additional Qualifications:
- Hands-on experience managing a DevTools, DevOps, or CD pipeline team
- Hands-on experience with system administration & configuration tool(s) (Puppet, Chef, Foreman, SaltStack, etc)
- Hands-on experience with logging/eventing platform(s) (Splunk, Kafka, etc)
- Hands-on Experience with node.js and/or JavaScript frameworks (Backbone, Angular, etc)
- Familiarity with the Ruby, Go, or Scala languages
- Having committed to open-source projects - provide a GitHub/GitLab/BitBucket/etc link if appropriate

Benefits:
- Great medical & dental plans
- Highly-competitive salary
- Target annual bonus
- Company stock (RSUs)
- Employee Stock Purchase Program
- 4 weeks paid vacation
- Free vacation rental on a yearly basis (taxable benefit)
- Ability to work up to two weeks in any of our offices around the world on a yearly basis
- Free drinks & snacks
- Weekly company update talks with our leadership team
- Free vacation-rental listing
- Electric, adjustable standing desk