Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Infrastructure Foundations

Responsibilities

• Perform day-to-day operational and DevOps tasks on public-facing infrastructure
• Implement and utilize configuration management and deployment tools like Puppet and Kubernetes
• Automate the installation, configuration, and maintenance of platform services
• Assist product teams with architectural design for scalable functionality
• Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation for incident response and diagnosis
• Collaborate with a global, cross-functional team in an asynchronous environment
• Mentor peers in technical and operational areas

Requirements

• 6+ years of experience in an SRE, Operations, or DevOps role
• Proficiency with shell scripting and languages such as Python, Go, Bash, or Ruby
• Experience with configuration management tools like Puppet or Ansible
• Experience designing and managing infrastructure security for large service fleets
• Experience with technical response during security incidents
• Strong Linux system-level troubleshooting skills and package management (Debian)
• Proven history of automating tasks and identifying process gaps
• Strong English language skills for working in a distributed global team

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience setting fleet-wide security policies and software supply chain security
• Knowledge of monitoring, metrics, and logging infrastructure (Prometheus, Grafana)
• Experience with LAMP stack technologies (PHP/HHVM, memcached/Redis)
• Experience defining and implementing cross-team SLOs
• Contributions to Free and Open Source software projects

About the Company

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