Principal SRE

What you will be doing

 

• Building amazing software that make us the leader in our space
• One of two technical leaders of a dedicated engineering team handling core software services and related Kubernetes deployment code
• Guide and mentor other engineers on architectural design, appropriate data model, and reasonable deployment, supporting other teams that use your services
• Be the core site reliability engineer for a disciplined team of hardcore software engineers and talented product managers using the latest tooling
  
  What you should have
  
   
• Experience working in an agile development environment
• 4+ years experience deploying complex HTTP based services on Docker and Kubernetes at scale on AWS
• Strong coding experience in Python or related language to support operations automation
• Must live within 3 hours of Eastern Standard Time (EST); strong preference for candidates within 7 hours driving time to Louisville, KY (Nashville, Cincinnati, St. Louis, Columbus, Chicago, Indianapolis, Charlotte, Pittsburg, Cleveland) for occasional meetups
• At least two years working with a title of Senior Devops Engineer or Senior SRE or higher at a software company, where your code is used by external customers
• Experience with authentication (oAuth2, LDAP) and how token services work
• 3+ years experience with AWS networking including ALB/ELB, VPC, and the two dozen other objects on the VPC page
• Linux mastery
• Deep git fu, including knowledge of advanced git technique (rebase, amend a commit)
• A bachelor's degree in computer science, mathematics, physics, or comparable industry experience within a software organization
• Experience working across the org with product managers and eng teams; good sense of the give and take in driving an architectural vision across multiple releases
• Curious, dedicated to learning, low ego
  
  Extremely Nice to Haves
  
   
• 1+ years of experience in Terraform
• Experience with advanced Kubernetes and related opensource tools (sealed secrets, ArgoCD)
• Debugging skills using Datadog, kubectl, low level Linux
• Familiar with thread concurrency and related async, queues, sockets, deep HTTP
• Solid knowledge of PostgreSQL and MySQL databases, especially if on AWS
• Comfortable using dozens of third-party commodity SaaS services for the basics
• Companies you have worked at are in Crunchbase and are listed as SaaS or software
  
  Not so great/Counter-indicators
• Most recent deploying in Azure and using C#/.NET tooling
• No large scale production experience