Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Ollie was born with the mission of improving the lives of pets and pet parents nationwide. We make human-grade pet food, tailored for each dog’s nutritional needs, and deliver directly to our customers’ doors. Through Ollie’s carefully crafted meals, dogs can truly live their healthiest, happiest lives.
We are a U.S. based distributed team and are backed by the same venture capital companies behind Instacart, Warby Parker, Glamsquad, Mirror, Prose, and Allbirds.
We are currently seeking candidates in the NE Corridor area only (Washington DC to Portland, ME, including Greater NYC)
As the Senior Site Reliability Engineer on the Platform team at Ollie, you will be responsible for making sure that our systems are fast, efficient, and always accessible. You will be participating in our agile process to help design, implement, deploy, and maintain system health, architecture and 3rd party integrations. You will set and create the service level indicators that help in optimizing and streamlining the system. You will help in identifying and fixing system bottlenecks and performance issues as well as implementing improvements and optimizations to support the growth of Ollie. You will work closely with development operations to streamline deployment processes and strengthen running systems. You will help your fellow engineers as you set, review and maintain best practices that make our lives as engineers more pleasurable.
This position is great for you if you are a curious, collaborative, and open-minded engineer. We are looking for someone who thrives in a small team environment and is excited to both teach & learn from teammates. You have built and used many APIs before and know thepitfalls and challenges involved with supporting and scaling them in the real world.
For a sneak peak of our culture and interview process, check out our 4.8 out of 5 star rating on Glassdoor!
Preferred Experience:
- 5+ years building API systems in Python, including technologies such as REST, OAuth2 and integrations with 3rd party services using REST APIs and JSON
- 2+ years of professional experience in helping scale and optimize both realtime and task based systems including creating and monitoring SLIs & SLOs
- Professional experience with AWS
- Professional use and in depth understanding of a relational database (PostgreSQL, MySQL, etc.) including SQL language.
- Professional experience with Docker/Containerization
- Experience with using version control (git, svn, etc.)
- Excellent communication & collaboration skills
- Strong technical knowledge and deep understanding of time/maintainability/quality trade-offs
- Self-starter, positive and excited to work with a small dedicated team
- Passionate about using technology to streamline business processes
Bonus Points:
- Dog Owner or Lover
- Interest in or understanding of e-commerce platforms
- Experience with Django
- Experience with DataDog
- Experience with Sentry
- Experience documenting tools and processes
- Open source community contributor
Benefits:
- Competitive salary and a stake in the company
- Sponsored 401k program with employer match up to 4%
- Comprehensive health coverage including medical, dental and vision
- Unlimited vacation policy that you're encouraged to use
- Paid parental leave
- 1-week paw-ternity leave for new dog parents
- Ollie subscription for one dog
- Inspiring pack members!
If you'd like to stand out, tell us in your cover letter why you're interested in joining Ollie and how your skills match the responsibilities detailed in this posting.
Ollie embraces diversity and equal opportunity. We're committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. Ollie is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please include that in your application.