[Hiring] Senior Site Reliability Engineer @Censys

Role Description

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) on the Infrastructure and Ops platform team, you will help design, build, and deploy the tools used to empower our development teams and production applications. We’re looking for talented engineers to help grow our operational maturity, as well as equally enjoy mastering cloud-native technologies to build and support our microservice architecture growth and reliability.

As a Developer Efficiency and Experience focused SRE, you will be responsible for helping improve the efficiency of engineering and our development teams by supporting the SDLC and workflows of our developers, ranging from writing supporting application code, automation, and most importantly, empowering developers to have the confidence to create, deploy, and manage their services end-to-end inside the platform.

What you'll do

• Build and maintain tooling to support our applications in Kubernetes and in the Google Cloud Platform.
• Work with development teams to help them build, ship, and deploy services and applications with ease and confidence, and promote service resilience and reliability.
• Help ensure smooth operations of our production environments, and work with developers to help debug complex issues as they arise. This includes creating and facilitating the capturing and monitoring of the 4 golden signals in our applications.
• Help to create a self-service platform by working with the rest of the SRE and infrastructure team to accelerate and promote developer velocity, including service catalogs, repository tooling, and documentation.
• Participate in a shared on-call rotation schedule.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in an SRE role or similar.
• Experience deploying, managing, and debugging applications in a Kubernetes environment.
• Experience building, securing, and managing container images.
• Experience working with Cloud-based environments, and interacting with Cloud services such as CloudSQL databases, Pub/Sub, Memorystore, and others.
• Familiarity with Infrastructure-as-code Tools, such as Terraform, Crossplane, or similar.
• Experience with tools and solutions used to monitor the 4 golden signals (latency, traffic, errors, and load).
• Familiarity with a monorepo, trunk-based development model with monolithic build tooling and CI/CD.
• Ability to communicate and support developers with empathy.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building and supporting a gRPC microservice architecture.
• Ability to interface with application code to help assist in introducing best practices.
• Familiarity with Application Security tooling.
• Familiarity and comfort with Linux-based environments.

Qualities

• Have a passion for clean, concise architecture and enjoy working in a GitOps-based environment.
• Comfortable with projects that have a large degree of uncertainty and risk.
• Desire to collaborate with and advise product management and leadership.
• Understands and practices the principles of continuous delivery.

What will make you stand out

• Basic understanding of infrastructure operations.
• Not being afraid to dig into code to better understand how our applications work.
• Deep understanding of how to optimize and support web-based applications.

Salary and Benefits

• For high cost of living areas (Seattle, San Francisco Bay Area, or New York City), our target salary range for this role is between $166,000 USD and $203,000 USD + bonus eligibility and equity.
• For all other US locations, the expected salary range for this position is $145,000 USD - $190,000 USD, plus bonus eligibility and equity.
• Benefits are effective on day one and include: 401k match, health, vision, dental, and more!

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