We’re looking for a top-notch, hands-on SRE to lead our small and talented infrastructure engineering team and help us elevate our game when it comes to designing, building and operating high-performance and highly-available systems.We’re backed by Insight Venture Partners and Iconiq Capital, we’re on a path to $1B in 2019, and we’ll get there - even more surely if you come help us.
Every engineer is responsible for the software they build, and SREs play a critical part in providing the tools, practices, and expertise to support them succeed.
Our production systems are hosted in AWS datacenters running a large Ruby on Rails web application and a handful of smaller services in Ruby, Node.js, and Java. We currently deploy 3-5 times a day. Our systems are stable and fire drills are rare. Technologies we’re currently using include:
Amazon Web Services (EC2, ELB, S3, RDS, ElastiCache) and Ubuntu Linux
Postgres, Redis, Memcached, ElasticSearch
Chef, ServerSpec, Terraform, NewRelic, DataDog, Sumo Logic and Test Kitchen
In this mission-critical role, you would:
Design, build, and maintain the core infrastructure of our product
Actively manage the backlog for our infrastructure team and work closely with other SREs on the team to provide coaching and mentorship
Help us increase developer productivity and get to true continuous delivery
Develop operational and security standards and champion operational excellence and secure coding practices
Partner with engineering teams closely to educate and consult
Participate in solution design for new features, products, systems and tooling
Debug complex problems across the whole stack
Continually monitor application/system performance and costs, generate actionable insights and either implement or advocate for them
Participate in on-call rotations, along with every member of the engineering team
Ruthlessly eliminate repetitive manual tasks and recurring errors
Ensure we are always employing best-of-breed tooling for all our infrastructure and automation needs
Collaboratively plot course for the maturing and growth of our infrastructure
Participate (and sometimes run point) in handling production incidents
Work closely with engineering teams to conduct root cause analysis for production incidents, and evolve infrastructure and tooling.
This role might be that rare opportunity if you:
Thrive in a highly collaborative, no red-tape, rapid-growth environment
Love building tooling and infrastructure to help developers be more productive
Love eliminating repetitive manual tasks through automation
Have a healthy appreciation of what it means to work in production
Have solid Unix command line and systems chops
Have experience with substantial, distributed SaaS or eCommerce systems
Can point to a solid track record of success leading small-to-medium infrastructure teams
Have vision and well-informed opinions about how to build infrastructure for a high-growth, technology-driven company that’s headed towards the $1B mark
Numbers & Facts
Location
Boston, Massachusetts
Skills
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)unmatched
Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)unmatched
Amazon Web Services (AWS)unmatched
Automationunmatched
Backlog Prioritizationunmatched
Coachingunmatched
Command Lineunmatched
Consultingunmatched
Continuous Deployment/Deliveryunmatched
Cook Dishesunmatched
Debugging Skillsunmatched
DevOpsunmatched
Elasticsearchunmatched
Incident Responseunmatched
Linux Operating Systemunmatched
Logic Testingunmatched
Machine Toolunmatched
Mentoringunmatched
On Callunmatched
Operations Planningunmatched
Operations Security (OPSEC)unmatched
PostgreSQLunmatched
Productivity Managementunmatched
Redisunmatched
Root Cause Analysisunmatched
SUMOunmatched
Secure Codingunmatched
Software as a Service (SaaS)unmatched
Team Playerunmatched
Ubuntuunmatched
Unix Operating Systemsunmatched
eCommerceunmatched
memcachedunmatched
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