Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Data Persistence

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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