Role overview

Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Observability

Requirements and responsibilities

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Your Impact

  • Build and orchestrate Modern OTEL-based Observability Platform
  • Support multiple telemetry types, like metrics, logs and traces.
  • Define and support modern governance in observability and problems at scale.
  • Ensure reliability, security, and performance exceed our defined SLAs
  • Work with engineers from across the company to help troubleshoot issues, deploy new products and services, and increase velocity while decreasing cognitive load
  • Lead the design and deployment of monitoring/observability services to detect and alert the team of needed action.
  • Ingest, aggregate, transform, and utilize data from a multitude of sources in our real time data pipeline.
  • Oversee the availability, performance, and supportability of our observability infrastructure.
  • Create processes around alert response operations and support the team to ensure the reliable delivery of oracle data.
  • Make recommendations to ensure sufficient metrics are collected to create alerts with every new feature release.
  • Champion reliability and security by taking the time to do your work right the first time

Requirements

  • 7+ years of relevant professional experience. You probably have worked on a devops, infrastructure, SRE, and/or platform team before
  • Ability to develop software outside of the scope of typical infrastructure requirements and configurations
  • Experience programming in C, C++, Java, Python, Go, Perl, or Ruby
  • Expert knowledge in all aspects of designing, developing, and managing large real-time systems
  • Experience with monitoring and logging. You know how to export metrics using Prometheus, have built a Grafana dashboard or two, and have experience with a centralized logging solution like an ELK Stack, Splunk or Grafana Stack.
  • Experience with distributed systems and container orchestration. You have maintained or even built Kubernetes clusters before and feel comfortable deploying completely new services on them
  • Strong communication skills. You can give and receive constructive feedback, and you do not shy away from planning meetings and code reviews

Desired Qualifications

  • Excitement for blockchain, Web 3.0, and similar decentralized technologies.
  • Experience running any infrastructure in the blockchain/web3 space
  • Ability to scale systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation, and evolve systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity
  • Experience working remotely in a distributed team
  • A strong desire to grow and challenge yourself. We would expect you to constantly find ways to improve and automate services to reduce toil

Desired Qualifications

  • AWS; Terraform/Terragrunt; Kubernetes, Calico and ArgoCD; Prometheus and Grafana; GitHub Actions; Packer
  • We expect you to be comfortable with most of those tools and very proficient in several of them.
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