[Hiring] Senior Software Engineer, Site Reliability & Security @WellSaid

Role Description

As Site Reliability Engineer at WellSaid, you'll run our production platform and be working on large-scale projects that improve the availability and performance of our core services and data pipelines.

In your day-to-day, you will:

• Build and run our monitoring, tracing and alerting infrastructure
• Drive platform security initiatives including preventative efforts to ensure system reliability
• Lead our response and recovery efforts from active incidents which include performing root cause analysis
• Run our platform and services with high availability and redundancy front and center
• Respond to alerts on issues in our systems & be part of our on call response team
• Improve our deployment process with a focus on making all code changes fast, simple, and safe
• Deliver a stable and scalable product platform to enable engineering teams to deliver product in a fast and efficient manner
• Identify novel ways to handle load and scale resource-intensive applications
• Help our engineers write reliable code while retaining our ability to ship fast

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of computer science concepts including algorithms, data structures, and systems design
• Experience with cloud environments and container technology, including AWS or GCP, Kubernetes, and Docker
• 5+ years with a modern programming language (Golang, Typescript, Python, etc...)
• Strong understanding of Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Tofu, Pulumi)
• Experience with GitOps/continuous delivery tooling (ArgoCD, Spacelift, Terraform Cloud)
• Experience building and troubleshooting Kubernetes environments
• The ability to debug and solve issues in complex production environments
• An understanding of how to profile applications and databases, to identify and debug performance issues
• Fluency working in a UNIX shell to analyze logs, investigate issues handle other common operational tasks
• Experience with monitoring tools such as Grafana and Prometheus

Requirements

• Be a U.S. Citizen or Permanent Resident
• Pass a pre-employment background check

Benefits

• Competitive salary and stock options
• Full medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Matching 401(k) plan
• Generous vacation policy/paid time off
• Parental leave
• Learning & development stipend
• Home office stipend