Remote Senior Site Reliability Engineer (REMOTE)

Description:

• As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Weedmaps, you will work cross-departmentally with partners on the application, infrastructure, and quality teams to enhance the performance, reliability, resilience, and scalability of Weedmaps.com web services.
• The organization is cloud-native, with 100% of services in Docker running on Kubernetes in AWS’ public cloud.
• Your daily focus will include leveraging engineering skills to assist in building, monitoring, reducing developer toil, configuring CI workflows, and improving deployment pipelines.
• You will serve as a knowledge reference for development teams to ensure consistent tooling for metrics, logging, build, and deployment.
• Collaborate with development and infrastructure teams to identify essential service-specific metrics that need monitoring and work with application development teams to create libraries for easy service instrumentation.
• Responsibilities include troubleshooting deployment issues in the CI/CD pipeline, advocating for the DevOps culture, identifying areas for automation, and creating synthetic monitoring flows.
• You will help teams understand the reliability of their services using metrics and observability.

Requirements:

• A minimum of 5 years of experience at startup or mid-sized companies is required.
• Proficiency in at least one programming language such as Python, Go, Node, Ruby, or Elixir is necessary.
• Experience using and operating Kubernetes in a production environment is essential.
• Effective communication skills, a positive attitude, and the ability to give and receive constructive feedback are required.
• The ability to learn quickly and adapt to changing environments is a must.
• A strong bias for action and decision-making capabilities are essential.
• Self-management skills, including prioritization and time management, are required.
• Professional experience with cloud-native observability standards such as Open Metrics, Open Tracing, and Open Census is necessary.
• Expertise in using and configuring modern CI/CD workflows is required.
• An intimate understanding and experience implementing SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs from the service level to the business level is essential.
• A deep understanding of the GitHub branching strategy is required.
• Experience troubleshooting containerized applications is necessary.
• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code, automation, and configuration is required.

Benefits:

• Physical health benefits include medical, dental, and vision coverage with 100% employer-paid premiums and company contributions to a Health Savings Account for those electing the High Deductible Health Plan.
• Mental health benefits include free access to the CALM app for employees and dependents, employee training, and mental health seminars and Q&A sessions.
• Basic life and AD&D insurance is employer-paid at 1x salary up to $250,000.
• A 401(k) retirement plan with employer match contributions is offered.
• Generous PTO, paid sick leave, and company holidays are provided.
• Supplemental voluntary benefits, including student loan repayment and 529 education savings with company contributions, are available.
• Flexible spending accounts (FSA) for medical, dependent, transit, and parking expenses are offered.
• Additional benefits include voluntary life and AD&D insurance, critical illness insurance, accident insurance, short- and long-term disability insurance, pet insurance, family planning/fertility support, identity theft protection, and legal access to a network of attorneys.
• Paid parental leave is also provided.