Site Reliability Engineer

We are looking for a talented Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join our team to deliver world class search technologies to mobile devices. You will be working with a smart team of Engineers to lead and drive the stability, reliability, and observability of all Seekr's software, powering Seekr's powerful search technology.

From your first day, you will make a valuable — and valued — contribution. We are a fast-growing company where no one is a bystander. We offer you the opportunity to delight millions of consumers around the world while gaining meaningful experience across a variety of disciplines.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Participate in the design, architecture and implementation of systems, software, networks, and services required to keep the Seekr platform within SLAs.
• Lead development of solutions to complex operational and reliability challenges and proactive detection of system failures and scalability issues in production.
• Work in close collaboration with software development teams to build, monitor and triage our services.
• Load testing applications across the organization.
• Take ownership of our observability stack.
• Share ownership of our incidence response practices and procedures.
• Identify and remedy operational inefficiencies through automation.
• Troubleshoot and assist with incident response on live systems and deployment related issues.

Qualifications and Skills Required

• 5+ years working in Site Reliability Engineering preferably managing SaaS environments.
• 5+ years of experience working with Linux systems, familiar with Linux fundamentals including network protocols.
• Experienced with self-hosted monitoring, metrics, and centralized logging tools (ELK, Prometheus, InfluxDB, Grafana; required).
• Skilled in load testing applications.
• Proficient in programming and/or scripting languages (Python, Ruby, Bash, Java).
• Adept with container technologies Docker and Kubernetes (required).
• Demonstrated ability in systems configuration management using automation tools such as Puppet, Chef, Ansible, and Terraform (Puppet and Terraform preferred).
• Knowledgeable in monitoring Kubernetes, Elasticsearch, Kafka, and Aerospike (preferred).
• Versed in Git (on-prem or GitHub); familiarity with GitLab and ArgoCD is a bonus.
• Comfortable working within a hybrid cloud environment, with on-prem experience preferred.
• Proven track record of delivering results on time and with high quality.
• Reliable in maintaining SLAs.
• Effective communicator with the ability to work across multiple business and technical teams.

Qualifications and Skills Desired

• Advanced degree is nice to have

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