Our Opportunity:

Chewy is looking to hire Senior Site Reliability Engineers in Boston, MA. Site Reliability Engineers are a cross between system and software engineers who are responsible for all operational aspects of Chewy’s e-commerce platform. The team is responsible for designing, building, monitoring, and maintaining the infrastructure of our internet-facing and internal services. We're looking for engineers who want to be a part of developing infrastructure software, maintaining it, and scaling Chewy’s technology stack. Come help us build a bigger and better Chewy as a Site Reliability Engineer. You will be part of a small family within Chewy that has a huge impact on our incredible growth. Ideal candidates will possess the ability to discuss complex technical concepts with a diverse audience across all areas of the organization. They will remain calm under pressure and always strive to add structure to high-pressure, fast paced tasks or projects.

What You’ll Do:

• Focus on service stability and reliability by working with application owners design reliable and resilient infrastructure
• Complete understanding of operational tools and concepts, such as alerting, monitoring, logging and health checks
• Perform capacity planning and production readiness assessment
• Collaborate with product teams on architecture design and recommend improvements based on best practices in reliability
• Define requirements for other operational teams (release engineering, automation, etc.) during application development phase
• Be a technology and DevOps evangelist for the rest of the company
• Partner with Release Engineering and Platform Engineering to continuously improve our infrastructure and platform based on internal application needs
• Participate in on-call rotation for Staff Level support escalations

What You’ll Need:

• At least 7 years of experience working in an SRE role or similar Infrastructure/Devops discipline
• Hands on experience with orchestration and system configuration tools such as Ansible, Puppet, Chef, Terraform [preferred], etc.
• Minimum 7+ years of experience in building applications in public cloud platforms like AWS (preferred), GCP or Azure
• Expert in architecting, building and maintaining highly available applications including redundancy, fail over, scalability, monitoring and performance
• Highly skilled in identifying performance bottlenecks, identifying anomalous system behavior, and resolving root cause of service issues including recommended solutions
• Proven understanding of web services, databases and relating infrastructure/architecture
• Experience working with open source community (troubleshooting, patch submission, etc.)
• Demonstrated 5+ years of Linux System Administration
• Experience with CI tools such as Bamboo, Jenkins, CircleCI
• Ability to mentor junior level resources in technical areas

• Previous experience working within controls such as SOX, PCI, etc

• Bachelor’s Degree (MIS or CS preferred) or equivalent work experience 
• Position may require travel

Bonus:

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect
• Advanced Terraform knowledge and orchestration using Jenkins
• Datadog Integration expertise for container

If you have a disability under the Americans with Disabilities Act or similar law, or you require a religious accommodation, and you wish to discuss potential accommodations related to applying for employment at our company, please contact [email protected].

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Chewy is committed to equal opportunity. We value and embrace diversity and inclusion of all Team Members.
If you have a disability under the Americans with Disabilities Act or similar law, or you require a religious accommodation, and you wish to discuss potential accommodations related to applying for employment at Chewy, please contact HR at chewy dot com
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