Production Engineer
Production Engineer builds and operates large-scale systems, focusing on automation, monitoring, infrastructure management, and resilient operations. Requires 2+ years in SRE/DevOps, expertise in Linux, AWS, Kubernetes, and programming in Python or Golang.
About the job
The Opportunity
We are seeking a talented Engineer with extensive system knowledge who wants to be part of a team to build and operate large-scale systems that enables reliable and rapid deployment with effective monitoring and resilient operations.
Your Impact
- Automation! Capability! Performance! Scale!
- Have a strong influence in defining our engineering best practices and deployment process
- Help automate the continuous integration and testing processes to enable and scale
- Manage and maintain infrastructure
- Own, design and implement monitoring systems such as Prometheus and Grafana
- Optimize Linux systems for performance, reliability, and security
- Own configuration management process(es) and build product features as appropriate
- Investigate and dig into data to find the root of a problem and strategize with our engineers on solutions
- Participate in on-call rotation
We're looking for someone who
- You have 2+ years experience in SRE, Production Engineering and/or DevOps
- Expert level experience architecting, developing, and troubleshooting large scale systems
- Advanced level proficiency with one or more programming languages (i.e. Python, Golang)
- Deep experience with data structures and Linux systems internals (e.g., filesystems, system calls) and administration
- Extensive experience with CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code (i.e. Terraform, Ansible)
- You have a strong familiarity with AWS services (i.e. ECS, S3, ALB, VPC)
- You have knowledge in containers and orchestration using Kubernetes
- Experience building production quality cloud infrastructure that enables reliable and rapid deployment of large-scale systems with effective monitoring and resilient operations
- You thrive working in a fast paced, startup environment
- You have a proven track record taking on projects from inception to launch
- Bachelor's in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering (MS preferred)
Salary Range
$155,000 to $185,000 USD per year.
Skills
Python, Go, Linux, AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, Prometheus, Grafana, CI/CD
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