Site Reliability Engineer
The Opportunity
We are looking for a highly capable engineer to join our Platform and Site Reliability engineering team. You will be responsible for building, maintaining and operating the infrastructure platform on which all Ookla services are built. In this role, you will build, maintain, and support a massive-scale dynamic infrastructure that is relied on by hundreds of millions of users around the world. You will obsess over systems performance, scalability, reliability, observability, and security. Most importantly, you will help deliver critical application functionality and help make the internet experience better for our users to help us achieve our goal of better connectivity for all.
Key Responsibilities
- Maintaining a distributed, global ecosystem of thousands of cloud instances, containerized workflows, serverless applications, Linux servers, and associated infrastructure supporting billions of requests daily.
- Maintaining transactional database infrastructure using MySQL, PostgreSQL, and managed services such as RDS/Aurora.
- Supporting the use of NoSQL data storage engines such as DynamoDb and MongoDB.
- Building and supporting data stream processing with Kinesis or Kafka.
- Supporting data engineering and big data toolchains such as Spark.
- Supporting production systems in a 24x7x365 environment, including on-call responsibilities.
- Providing architectural and operational support to software engineers in a wide variety of focus areas.
- Support software and data engineering teams and guiding operational best practices.
- Implementation and oversight of security programs including vulnerability remediation, patch management, IDS/IPS, penetration testing, and interfacing with our corporate InfoSec team.
- Supporting the development to production code deploy pipeline for a range of production applications.
- Providing the tooling and guidance for the software and data engineering team to implement our monitoring and observability best practices.
- Assisting development teams with troubleshooting.
Job Qualifications
We are looking for the right person, not the exact list of requirements. If you believe your life experience has prepared you for similar challenges, we'd like to hear from you.
- 4+ Years Systems/Platform engineering experience
- Experience building globally-distributed systems
- Strong understanding of security best practices
- Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, Cloudformation
- Branching and Merge based Source Code Configuration Management: Git, Github
- Configuration management systems such as Chef or Ansible
- Container-based architectures including Docker, Kubernetes
- Proficiency in one or more high level programming languages such as Typescript, Go, Python, PHP, Ruby, Java, etc.
- Experience with AWS and other Cloud infrastructure platforms
- Comfort writing SQL queries and analyzing query performance
- Comfortable learning and working with new technologies in an ever-changing environment
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Strong time management skills and a self-driven work ethic
Compensation Range
Ookla provides a range for the base pay. Factors that may be used to determine your actual pay may include your specific job related knowledge, skills, experience, and geographic location. The salary compensation for this role is $90,000 - $100,000. Individual pay within the compensation range for this business unit specific role is determined based on a variety of factors including experience, scope of the role, capabilities to perform the role, education and training, as well as business and company performance.
