Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Data Persistence
Summary
Senior Site Reliability Engineer performing day-to-day operational/DevOps tasks on public infrastructure, automating services with tools like Puppet and Kubernetes, and assisting with scalable architectural design. Core technologies include Puppet, Kubernetes, Linux, and distributed systems.
Responsibilities
- Perform day-to-day operational/DevOps tasks on public facing infrastructure
- Implement and utilize configuration management and deployment tools like Puppet and Kubernetes
- Automate the installation, configuration, and maintenance of services
- Assist product teams in architectural design for scalable functionality
- Participate in a 24/9 on-call rotation and incident response
- Collaborate with a global, cross-functional team asynchronously
- Mentor peers in technical and operational areas
Requirements
- 6+ years of experience in an SRE, Operations, or DevOps role
- Proficiency in shell scripting and languages like Python, Go, Bash, or Ruby
- Experience with configuration management tools such as Puppet or Ansible
- Experience with distributed caching systems and performance optimization
- Experience with Linux package management (Debian preferred)
- Strong Linux system-level troubleshooting skills
- Proven history of automating tasks and identifying process gaps
- Strong English verbal and written communication skills
- Experience leading incident response and conducting root cause analysis
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with Linux kernel tuning
- Experience with monitoring, metrics, and logging infrastructure (Prometheus, Grafana)
- Contributions to Free and Open Source software
- Experience with LAMP stack technologies (PHP/HHVM, memcached/Redis)
- Experience operating on-premise filesystems or object stores (OpenStack Swift, Ceph)
- Experience with distributed storage and database systems (Cassandra, MariaDB)
- Experience managing backups with Bacula
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