Site Reliability Engineer III
Site Reliability Engineer responsible for deploying, monitoring, and maintaining highly available infrastructure on GCP using Terraform, Kubernetes, and various cloud services. Requires 5+ years experience (3+ in production), strong Kubernetes/IaC background, and on-call participation to ensure reliable systems for millions of users.
About the job
What You Will Do
- Deploy, monitor and maintain highly available systems using technologies such as Terraform, CockroachDB and GCP services to include GKE (Kubernetes), Cloud SQL, Bigtable, Google Composer (Airflow), Google Cloud Storage, BigQuery, Pub/Sub, Cloud Run, etc.
- Maintain and extend a large, mature Terraform codebase.
- Analyze systems and make recommendations to increase performance, availability and minimize cost.
- Automate manual systems to minimize toil wherever possible.
- Develop and maintain integrations with 3rd party monitoring and alerting systems, such as Google Cloud Monitoring, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Checkly, and Rootly.
- Drive incident response best practices for on-call engineering teams across onX. Participate in the SRE team's on-call rotation for core infrastructure.
- Collaborate in architectural decisions and direction involving our services and initiatives.
What You'll Bring
- B.S. or M.S. in computer science or a related field or relevant experience.
- At least 5+ years of experience where 3+ are supporting production systems.
- Strong interest and experience with Kubernetes, networking, and infrastructure-as-code.
- Experience with Terraform/OpenTofu.
- Exposure to at least one major cloud platform.
- Evaluate technologies and solutions based on merit, stability, performance and the ability to debug.
- Practical experience with different types of datastores (SQL, NoSQL, object storage) and can explain when to use each based on data access patterns and scalability needs.
- Strong computer science foundation.
- Believe that your profession is a craft and you’re driven to improve every day.
- Take strong ownership of your work and platform responsibilities.
Bonus Qualifications
- Familiarity with Google Cloud Platform.
- Strong ability to troubleshoot and break down issues.
- Experience working with high throughput, low latency services.
- Experience working with a distributed team.
- Experience working with IAM, auditing & security management within a cloud environment.
- Experience working with GIS Mapping systems and tiles.
- Experience working with Claude Code.
- Experience working with Airflow or equivalent ETL systems.
Compensation
For this position, applicants can expect to make between $130,000 to $153,000 upon hire. In addition, full-time onX employees are eligible for a grant of common share options with a vesting schedule and a potential annual bonus of 10% based on company performance.
Benefits
- Competitive salaries, annual bonuses, equity, and opportunities for growth.
- Comprehensive health benefits including a no-monthly-cost medical plan.
- Parental leave plan of 5 or 13 weeks fully paid.
- 401k matching at 100% for the first 3% you save and 50% from 3-5%.
- Company-wide outdoor adventures and amazing outdoor industry perks.
- Annual “Get Out, Get Active” funds to fuel your active lifestyle in and outside of the gym.
- Flexible time away package that includes PTO, STO, VTO, quiet weeks, and floating holidays.
Skills
Terraform, Kubernetes, GCP, GKE, Cockroachdb, Airflow, BigQuery, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Infrastructure As Code, SQL, NoSQL
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