Site Reliability Engineer

A software company is looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to join their team in Portland, OR.

Compensation: $140-160k

Responsibilities:

• Help define technology choices, best practices and process for the team.
• Develop and maintain documentation standard for the team.
• Develop new tools and libraries for broader use by SaaS Operations and Engineering teams.
• Enable engineering teams and understand problems quicker.
• Work with product architects and make suggestions for architectural changes and design platform component roadmaps.
• Act as a subject matter expert (SME) for components and functions desired. Develop the skill as required, to become SME for components in need.
• Assist engineering teams in deep troubleshooting and application code review to find opportunities to improve performance and scalability.
• Work with Engineering and peer SRE teams to design and use firm coding standards and best practices.
• Respond to incidents coordinated by SRE and Incident Response teams. Act as a Incident Commander during incidents.
• Participate in escalation and off-hours on-call schedule.
• Mentor and train junior members of the team. Design training curriculum for the team.

Qualifications:

• 7+ years industry experience
• BS in CS or equivalent combination of education and experience
• Strong experience operating Kubernetes in production environments – EKS Anywhere is preferred
• Experience with middleware systems (Kafka, AMQ, Redis, Memcache, etc.)
• Experience managing CI/CD systems (Flux, Concourse)
• Experience deploying and/or operating Observability stack (Splunk, Datadog, Grafana)
• Experience with large scale systems
• Familiarity with working with PostgreSQL and MongoDB
• Background working in a multi-platform environment (Linux, Windows)
• Familiarity of programming/scripting languages (ie. Python, Bash, PowerShell, Go, etc.)
• Familiarity with Agile/Scrum/Kanban methodologies
• Strong interpersonal skills