Site Reliability Engineer II

Content moderation runs around the clock, with reviewers in multiple time zones and languages. Our engineering, trust and safety, and customer support teams work across offices in Binghamton and several other countries.

About the role

We need another Site Reliability Engineer II to keep our production systems available, measurable and boring. We work hybrid out of New York City, usually three days in, two days remote.

Job duties

• Manage Kubernetes clusters, node pools and autoscaling
• Plan and run game days and chaos experiments
• Maintain on-call schedules, runbooks and escalation policies in PagerDuty or Opsgenie
• Harden databases and caches with replication, backups and restore drills
• Lead incident response as incident commander and run blameless postmortems
• Run capacity planning and load tests with k6, Locust or Gatling
• Improve observability with Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Tempo or Datadog

Minimum qualifications

• Hands-on with metrics, logging and tracing systems
• Strong programming skills in Go, Python or Java
• Experience participating in and leading on-call rotations
• Understanding of distributed systems: consensus, replication, partitioning, backpressure

Preferred

• OpenTelemetry instrumentation
• Running PostgreSQL, Cassandra, Kafka or Elasticsearch at scale
• EBPF-based tooling

Pay range: $182,000 - $240,000 annually. Final offer will depend on experience.

Benefits

• Health insurance
• 401(k) with company match
• Paid parental leave
• Life insurance
• Tuition reimbursement

EOE. We participate in E-Verify.

Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Nowak Apps, LLC.