Purpose:
System Reliability Engineers (also known as Site Reliability Engineers) are responsible for the keeping all user-facing services (most notably HungerStation.com) and many other HungerStation production systems running smoothly 24/7/365. SREs are a blend of operations gear-heads and software crafters that apply sound engineering principles, operational discipline and mature automation, specializing in systems, whether it be networking, the Linux kernel, or even a specific interest in scaling, algorithms, or distributed systems.
Responsibilities:
- Be on a PagerDuty on-call rotation to respond to HungerStation.com availability incidents.
- Use your on-call shift to prevent incidents from ever happening.
- Manage our infrastructure with Terraform and Kubernetes and other similar tools.
- Make monitoring and alerting trigger based on symptoms and not on outages.
- Document every action so your learnings turn into repeatable actions and then into automation.
- Improve the deployment process of all services to make it as boring as possible.
- Design, build and maintain core infrastructure pieces that allow HungerStation scaling to support tens of thousands of concurrent users.
- Debug production issues across services and levels of the stack.
- Plan the growth of HungerStation's infrastructure.
Requirements
- 4- 6 years of relevant experience
- Bachelor Degree in a relevant field is required
- Master’s degree in a relevant field is preferred
You may be a fit to this role if you:
- Think about systems - edge cases, failure modes, behaviors, specific implementations.
- Know your way around Linux and the Unix Shell.
- Know what is the use of config management systems like Terraform, Ansible, Chef . etc.
- Have strong programming skills - Ruby and/or Go.
- Have an urge to collaborate and communicate asynchronously.
- Have an urge to document all the things so you don't need to learn the same thing twice.
- Have a proactive, go-for-it attitude. When you see something broken, you can't help but fix it.
- Have an urge for delivering quickly and iterating fast.
- Share our values, and work in accordance with those values.
- Have experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Prometheus and other cloud-native tools.