Associate Site Reliability Engineer - Databases

Headquartered in Anaheim since 2006, the company now sells in 40 countries and supports customers in 11 languages. Public sector agencies, utilities and large health systems license our asset management platform under multi-year contracts. Code review is required on every pull request, and nobody merges their own changes.

Job summary

We are adding an Associate Site Reliability Engineer - Databases to our Observability team. Our services run on Kubernetes across two cloud regions. This hire will help us get better at capacity planning and failover. You can work from home anywhere in the US. We have no office requirement. We do not have many meetings. Most updates happen in writing.

Day to day

• Improve observability with Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Tempo or Datadog.
• Run capacity planning and load tests with k6, Locust or Gatling.
• Lead incident response as incident commander and run blameless postmortems.
• Review architecture proposals for reliability risks before launch.
• Plan and run game days and chaos experiments.
• Manage Kubernetes clusters, node pools and autoscaling.
• Reduce toil by measuring it and automating the worst offenders.

Qualifications

• 1+ years in SRE, production engineering or infrastructure roles.
• Production experience with Kubernetes and a major cloud provider.
• Working knowledge of TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP and load balancing.
• Understanding of distributed systems: consensus, replication, partitioning, backpressure.
• Infrastructure as code with Terraform or similar.
• Hands-on with metrics, logging and tracing systems.
• Deep Linux knowledge, including systemd, networking and tools like strace and tcpdump.

Nice to have

• Contributions to open source observability projects.
• CKA or CKS certification.

$138,000 - $166,000 annually

Why work with us

• Health insurance.
• 401(k) with 4% match.
• Paid holidays.

We are not working with agencies on this role.

Start: Flexible.

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