[Hiring] Principal SRE (Networking) - Platform Control Plane @Referral Board

Role Description

As part of the Platform Engineering department, the Network Infrastructure team is crafting, building, and improving the multi-cloud platform at scale for Elastic Cloud Hosted and Serverless. We grow and mature our distributed large-scale network infrastructure that spans across multiple cloud service providers to support our cloud services. We are built on Kubernetes, Go, and custom orchestration architectures. In your daily life with us, you will participate in:

• Coding and innovating technical designs
• Crafting solutions and improving resilience
• Prioritizing security, bug fixes, and features
• Debugging Azure Networking for Elastic Cloud Serverless

Qualifications

• Excellent networking skills, with knowledge of protocols such as IP/IPv6, TCP/UDP, BGP, DNS
• Strong technical depth for building and automating networks (Terraform, Ansible)
• Good knowledge of public CSP network components (Load balancers, VPC peering/Transit gateways, VPN connectivity, Direct Connects)
• Success and lessons from striving for 'progress not perfection' in the name of Platform reliability
• Passion for developing solutions that involve inclusive communication methods
• Site-Reliability Engineering experience

Requirements

• You have operated a SaaS product in a public cloud ideally built using Infrastructure-as-Code tooling such as Crossplane or Terraform
• You have designed and/or operated large network topologies based on BGP
• You have operated network topologies based on software routers
• You have experience in IP address management (IPAM) and relevant tools for automated IP allocations
• You have designed and/or operated overlay networks using encapsulation protocols such as IPSec, GRE, and VXLAN
• You have built or operated a Kubernetes-at-scale infrastructure across multiple cloud providers
• You have written non-trivial programs in Golang or other programming languages
• You have worked with containerized services (such as Docker)
• You have proven experience in leading and improving alerting and major incident management processes
• You have experience in system and network administration with professional skills in Linux on distributed systems at scale
• You have diagnosed or designed, implemented, and created solutions with the Elastic Stack
• You are experienced in thriving in a self-organizing and globally distributed team environment
• You strengthen team members by uplifting others with coaching and mentoring

Benefits

• Competitive pay based on the work you do
• Health coverage for you and your family in many locations
• Flexible locations and schedules for many roles
• Generous number of vacation days each year
• Matching up to $2000 for financial donations and service
• Up to 40 hours each year for volunteer projects
• Minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave