Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Responsibilities

• Perform day-to-day operational and DevOps tasks on public-facing infrastructure including deployment, maintenance, and troubleshooting
• Implement and utilize configuration management and deployment tools like Puppet and Kubernetes
• Automate the installation, configuration, and maintenance of services to drive continuous improvement
• Assist product teams with architectural design to ensure services are scalable
• 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 in shell scripting and languages such as Python, Go, Bash, or Ruby
• Experience with configuration management tools like Puppet or Ansible
• Experience with distributed caching systems and performance optimization
• Experience with Linux package management (Debian preferred)
• Strong Linux system-level troubleshooting skills
• Proven history of automating tasks and identifying process gaps
• Strong English verbal and written communication skills
• Experience leading incident response and conducting root cause analysis

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Linux kernel tuning
• Experience with monitoring and logging infrastructure such as Prometheus and Grafana
• Contributions to Free and Open Source software
• Experience with LAMP stack technologies (PHP/HHVM, memcached/Redis)
• Experience operating on-premise filesystems or object stores like OpenStack Swift or Ceph
• Experience with distributed storage and database systems like Cassandra or MariaDB
• Experience managing backups with tools like Bacula

About the Company

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