What You'll Do:

• You will be responsible for maintaining and scaling production services and servers for complex and high throughput cloud services (AWS).


• You will improve scalability, service reliability, capacity, and performance.


• You will write automation code for provisioning and operating infrastructure at massive scale.


• Build tools for internal use to support software engineering best practices.


• You are not an operator, you’re an experienced software engineer focused on operations.


• You will work with development teams to make sure the applications fit nicely within the infrastructure and scalability/reliability/security is designed and implemented from the start.


• You will participate in on-call rotation, being responsible for uptime and supporting the infrastructure.


• You will roll up the sleeves to troubleshoot incidents, formulate theories and test your hypothesis, and narrow down possibilities to find the root cause.

• B.S., M.S., or PhD. in Computer Science or equivalent


• 10+ years of professional experience in an operationally-focused role, such as DevOps or SRE strongly preferred.


• Strong knowledge of UNIX/Linux and experience working with open source software (such as MariaDB, Redis, HAProxy, Nginx)


• Experience working with MySQL databases


• Minimum of 2 years of experience with programming languages (Python, Ruby, etc.)


• Understanding of modern web stacks and architecture (HTTP, REST)


• Experience with automation/configuration management tools such as Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Salt, Fabric, Docker, etc.


• Experience with database administration


• Experience with deploying web apps to cloud infrastructure (AWS, etc.) and working with distributed, service-oriented architecture