Site Reliability Engineer

Description:

As a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) on the Platform team, your role will be crucial in helping us design, scale, and manage our growing Kubernetes / AWS-backed infrastructure. Your expertise will contribute to scaling our architecture and building a highly available system with an enthusiastic team. We are looking for candidates who have production experience with AWS-based platforms, expertise in automating distributed systems, scaling a fast-growing platform, maintaining high availability, and a forward-thinking mindset ready to take on tomorrow's challenges.

What You’ll Do

• Automate the provisioning, scaling, and management of our infrastructure using Configuration As Code and Configuration Management
• Work with other engineering and product teams to design and build the infrastructure required to deliver new features to customers
• Identify and remove bottlenecks from systems in production
• Ensure 99.99% customer-facing uptime
• Continuously improve the monitoring and alerting capabilities of our platform, enabling us to be proactive instead of reactive

What We’re Looking For

• 3+ years of professional SRE/DevOps experience, and a demonstrated ability working on high volume production systems
• Hands on experience on Kubernetes based environments
• Working knowledge of AWS services and technologies (Redshift, DynamoDB, Kinesis, RDS, ELB, AutoScaling, Lambda, etc)
• Experience with infrastructure as code and configuration management (Terraform, Nix, Ansible, CloudFormation, Chef, etc...)
• Knowledge of Python, Ruby, or Go, and an understanding of relational and NoSQL databases (PostgreSQL a plus)