Site Reliability Engineer, Networking - Remote

A bit about us:

Annual releases gave way to two-week sprints years ago, and the platform now handles over 200 million API calls a day. We run one of the larger SaaS platforms for commercial insurance carriers, processing millions of policy transactions a year. Most engineers work remotely and come into the office one week a quarter for planning.

Position summary:

We need another Site Reliability Engineer, Networking - Remote to keep our production systems available, measurable and boring.

In this role you will:

• Lead incident response as incident commander and run blameless postmortems.
• Build and tune alerting so pages are actionable and rare.
• Plan and run game days and chaos experiments.
• Maintain on-call schedules, runbooks and escalation policies in PagerDuty or Opsgenie.
• Run capacity planning and load tests with k6, Locust or Gatling.
• Tune Linux kernel, network and JVM settings when performance requires it.

Minimum qualifications:

• 2-4 years in SRE, production engineering or infrastructure roles.
• Hands-on with metrics, logging and tracing systems.
• Strong programming skills in Go, Python or Java.
• Production experience with Kubernetes and a major cloud provider.

Pluses:

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

Why work with us:

• Company laptop.
• Paid in USD.
• Annual rate review.
• Monthly internet allowance.

The posting will close once we have a strong shortlist.

Duration: 6 months. Start: Immediately.

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