About The Role 

Integral to the Engineering team, an SRE is a pivotal and growth driven role, at the intersection of operations and development, who will use their software development craft to build a global operation to ensure our customers achieve their mission. As a fast-growing organization, we expect every engineer to put their fingerprint on what we do and how we do it. 

You will be working with a diverse and geographically dispersed team. What binds us is our commitment to make a long-lasting impact.

Responsibilities

• Work with the development team in the design and construction of software.


• Design, create and maintain cloud infrastructure on Amazon Web Services. 


• Development automation, processes, and tools with an eye towards availability, latency, performance, and capacity. 


• Provide an application security and compliance lens on designs and code reviews.


• Support a running production environment and aid Product Owners in responding to the customer-facing issue 


• Develop and enhance tools to improve the observability of the events of our sub-systems (as championed by Charity Majors)

• Strong development skills in any modern programming language.


• Knowledge of network architecture and internet security best practices


• Skilled at containerizing applications with Docker or similar technology


• Ability to create, manage, and deploy infrastructure-as-code using Terraform or CloudFormation


• Ability to deploy, configure, and utilize monitoring and tracing services, such as New Relic and Datadog


• Skilled at communicating technical concepts to peers and non-technical persons respectfully and clearly


• Ability to troubleshoot performance problems and system outages. 


• Strong knowledge of Linux based operating systems


• Skilled at implementing secure, public-facing AWS Cloud-based systems. 


• Ability to configure and manage AWS services such as CloudFront, IAM, Route 53, S3, RDS, et al

• Experience with regulatory regimes such as HIPAA and GDPR


• Experience implementing security controls for AWS environments, including setup and management of authentication controls, VPN’s, KMS, etc 


• Experience operating and querying an ELK stack or similar solution


• Knowledge of functional programming languages and philosophy (or existing Clojure chops!)


• Experience in a startup environment, or as a fully remote employee - we use Slack and Zoom extensively, and our team is largely comprised of remoters