Site Reliability Engineer II (Infrastructure)

Since 1981, the company has expanded from listings into payments, shipping and seller financing. Content moderation runs around the clock, with reviewers in multiple time zones and languages. We started in 1981 and have grown to about 7,800 people. Our office has a quiet floor and a loud floor.

Position summary:

Our team is growing and we are hiring a Site Reliability Engineer II (Infrastructure). SRE role with a heavy software component. We expect you to write code that removes toil, not just run playbooks. You can work from home anywhere in the US. We have no office requirement. Normal business hours, Monday to Friday, with some flexibility.

Your responsibilities:

• Harden databases and caches with replication, backups and restore drills
• Lead incident response as incident commander and run blameless postmortems
• Write tooling in Go or Python to automate failover, scaling and routine operations
• Tune Linux kernel, network and JVM settings when performance requires it
• Build and tune alerting so pages are actionable and rare

Qualifications:

• Deep Linux knowledge, including systemd, networking and tools like strace and tcpdump
• Hands-on with metrics, logging and tracing systems
• Understanding of distributed systems: consensus, replication, partitioning, backpressure
• Working knowledge of TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP and load balancing
• Production experience with Kubernetes and a major cloud provider

Compensation: $178,000 - $205,000 a year DOE.

Benefits:

• Medical, dental and vision insurance
• 401(k) with company match
• 11 paid holidays
• Referral program
• Health savings account (HSA) with employer contribution
• Cell phone reimbursement

Thicketflow provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants.

A resume is enough to apply. Cover letters are optional.

We are unable to sponsor visas for this position.

Start: Within 30 days.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Thicketflow.