Sr. Site Reliability Engineer

This might be a good fit for you, if…

• writing clean, readable, testable, and performant code gives you joy, 

• translating unknowns into knowns excites you,

• reading a distributed systems paper is your thing,

• once, twice, automate resonates with you

• releases equals progress to you

Some broad areas of work are…

• Streamlining Kubernetes operations across multiple cloud providers.

• Mature the organization’s tooling to standardize deploy practices and move towards a globally distributed infrastructure.

• Tools and education that will help teams migrate from their existing container ecosystem to Kubernetes.

• Conduct workshops to evangelize and educate about the infrastructure platform.

• Proactively work with other SRE teams within the org to identify potential integration areas that are a source of friction and eliminate them.

Here’s how a typical week looks like:

You will be spending your time in no particular order or ratio on the following…

• Managing/Administering kubernetes related changes across multiple cloud providers.

• Building tools for the cloud infrastructure platform using Golang, Python, or Terraform to automate away things.

• Onboarding feature development teams.

• Troubleshoot and support the platform

You have a background in…

• Networking: A good understanding of the OSI model, TCP/IP, and DNS;  particularly as it relates to cloud environments.

• Linux Fundamentals: Solid experience with the administration, security hardening, and performance tuning of one or more distributions of Linux.

• Troubleshooting: A passion for tracking down technical root causes of distributed systems, and software.

• Observability: Experience with developing service level indicators and objectives, instrumenting software, and building alerts. 

• Software Engineering: An understanding of software engineering fundamentals with experience developing software with a team of engineers. Strong experience in the practice of testing.

• Automation: A strong desire to automate all of the things and eliminate toil.

• Containers: A solid understanding of the underpinnings of container technology such as cgroups and namespaces.

• Container Orchestration Systems:  Experience with the operations, administration, and development of orchestration systems such as Kubernetes, ECS, Mesos, Nomad.

• Infrastructure-as-Code: Experience with deploying and maintaining infrastructure as code with tools such as Terraform, Pulumi.

• Technical Writing: Most of the services we develop are greenfield, and you will need to build documentation and diagrams for other engineering teams.

• Customer Satisfaction: Keen eye for customer satisfaction (our customers are other engineering teams and Avalara customers).

• Passion for Learning: Interest in the broader technology space with a constant desire to expand your understanding.

• Adaptability: Experience working on a variety of projects. In short, we want people with T-shaped skills.

You stand out from the crowd if you have …

• Kubernetes: Experience with the operations and administration of Kubernetes

• Go: Experience developing non trivial software with Go

• Distributed Computing: Experience architecting, developing, and deploying distributed services across regions and clouds.

• Technical Writing: writing technical documents that people love and adore.

• Open Source: Build side-projects or contribute to other open-source projects.

What You'll Need to be Successful
 

Qualifications

• Minimum of 8 years experience in a SaaS environment

• Ability to work independently on projects while supporting a team

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or engineering equivalent

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