Site Reliability Engineer

Responsibilities

• Improve quality of pager alerts while reducing noise
• Maintain awareness of engineering initiatives across the organization and monitor their impact on stability, cost, and performance
• Keep infrastructure up-to-date to take advantage of security patches and new features
• Improve operational security without sacrificing engineering independence

Qualifications

• At least 4 years of experience as a Site Reliability Engineer, or related job
• Ability to read and understand product code (writing product code is a nice-to-have!)
• Familiarity with the state of the art in cloud technologies, including common providers, specific tools of the trade, and their strengths and weaknesses
• Experience operating applications and databases with demanding scalability or availability requirements
• Proven expertise in modern container orchestration practices (we use Kubernetes on GKE) 
• A strong understanding of the performance, architecture, tooling, and cost of cloud systems
• A security focused mindset with a solid understanding of incident response and risk mitigation
• A strong collaborator who is transparent about progress on tasks, seeks feedback early and often, works effectively with the team and customers
• If you don’t meet all of these, we still encourage you to apply. We believe that code is code, regardless of language, and learning different tools is part of joining a new company.

Benefits & Perks

• Catered lunch and an impressive array of your favorite snacks (healthy AND non-healthy!) 
• Unlimited vacation policy
• Health, Dental, Vision benefits, 401k, commuter benefits
• Generous stock options
• Regular team outings and activities (from boat rides to paintball, we’ll try anything!)