Site Reliability Engineer

Job Description

As a Site Reliability Engineer, you’ll play a critical role in designing scalable and reliable systems that meet the operational requirements of our organization.

 

• Leverage your understanding of our system to assist in resolving production issues in real time
• Bring your knowledge and perspective on reliability to preemptive (design reviews) and corrective (post mortems) discussions
• Lead service reliability reviews and audits and present findings to stakeholders
• Find patterns and pain points that hinder Wix’s availability, and produce large-scale solutions
• Generate and prioritize tasks for infrastructure teams to aid in improving uptime and reducing blast radius
• Analyze system performance and scalability requirements, identify bottlenecks, and then propose and implement solutions to optimize system capacity
  
  
   

Qualifications:

 

• A Senior R&D employee with 5+ years of experience managing large engineering projects
• You’re experienced with monitoring, logging, and tracing mechanisms
• You have an excellent understanding of how web applications work - from browsers and caches to the database, and back
• You’re skilled in site reliability engineering principles, including scalability, availability, performance, and fault tolerance
• You're highly motivated by the idea of automating failure remediation processes
• You’re great at jumping between multiple tasks and you know how to analyze risk and prioritize accordingly
• You enjoy critical thinking and problem solving and are seasoned in conflict resolution
• 3+ years experience in coding and/or running production systems over the cloud - a significant advantage