Job Title: Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Location: San Diego, CA - Hybrid Model (in-office Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays)
Salary: $120,000 - $160,000 Annual Base Salary + Benefits, PTO, Relocation Assistance
Requirements: JavaScript/Typescript, React, HTML, CSS, relational databases (PostgreSQL or MySQL/MariaDB), on the backend - Node.js, or PHP
If you are a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with 3+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure and AWS, please read on!
We have been around since 2003 excelling in the EdTech Industry. Our engineering team builds software that reaches hundreds of thousands of students and sparks joy as they learn. The team is quickly growing and on track to expand 40+% over the next year.
We need a Senior Site Reliability Engineer who has a strong AWS/Cloud background. Our ideal candidate is mission-driven and can do manual operations such as Linux configurations and can be a strong manual, hands-on type of engineer to implement the automated tools. This role will get the opportunity to start on a brand new team in our department to help communicate with the engineering team. This is an opportunity to learn a few new languages and also learn Ansible and CI/CD to develop strong DevOps knowledge.
We offer a casual work environment, flexible schedule, relocation, full benefits, 401K with match, and yearly bonuses! This role is based in the San Diego HQ in Rancho Bernardo area, with a hybrid model, working at the office on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 3-days a week.
What You Will Be Doing
Potential Projects:
- Implementing new monitoring and scaling solutions for mission-critical services.
- Creating and improving CI/CD pipelines and Ansible plays for our online classrooms, multiplayer math game, grading tools, and more.
- Establishing cloud infrastructure and tools for new microservices, including email delivery, math parsing, LaTeX rendering, homework grading, etc.
Responsibilities & Duties:
- Work closely with engineering leadership to strategize and advocate for the short and long term needs of our systems, as well as lead the design, implementation, and maintenance of web infrastructure and pipelines.
- Provide hands-on technical expertise by utilizing strong coding skills and SRE best practices to improve security, reliability, and monitoring of web applications.
- Automate and document administration and configuration processes for web servers and databases using Ansible.
- Utilize technical knowledge to both prevent, mitigate, and respond quickly to service failures.
- Motivate, give technical direction to, and foster the growth of team members.
What You Need for this Position
- Experience planning, designing, implementing, securing, and monitoring scalable cloud infrastructure for web applications.
- Experience with containerization and horizontal scaling in AWS.
- Experience with creating and maintaining Linux-based / LAMP-stack systems or related tech stacks
- Experience with Apache and/or Nginx.
- Experience with JavaScript, TypeScript, or PHP.
- Familiarity with creating Ansible plays and CI/CD pipelines for web applications.
- We are looking for someone with a background in Software Engineering who has 3+ years experience in Site Reliability or DevOps, or a developer interested in moving into DevOps-related roles.
- Mission-driven with a love for helping people succeed!
What's In It for You
- Competitive Salary!
- Guaranteed Bonuses
- Relocation Assistance
- Full Benefits
- Traditional and Roth 401K with matching that vests immediately!
- PTO
So, if you are a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with experience, please apply today!
Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S.