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Senior Infrastructure Engineer

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full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: CaliforniaUnited States

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Salary

💰 $191,000 - $250,000 per year

Job Level

Tech Stack

About the role

  • Develop technical and business solutions that enable engineers to improve the quality and reliability of product features and systems that they build.
  • Drive improvements to the reliability of our core infrastructure, such as production clusters, networking, databases, and observability systems.
  • Champion best practices during reviews of code, technical designs, and launch plans.
  • Own our incident management and fire drill processes.
  • Work with engineering leadership to set goals and prioritize production reliability.

Requirements

  • 5+ years experience in production/site-reliability engineering OR 5+ years of server-side software engineering with an interest in working on core infrastructure
  • A solid understanding of at least two of: public cloud infrastructure, Linux systems administration, and DevOps tooling.
  • Basic coding skills to work on automation and technical guardrails.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills, and the ability to collaborate with other functions
  • Experience mentoring engineers, including code reviews, architecture discussions, and leadership skills
Benefits
  • generous healthcare package
  • 401k matching program
  • catered lunches
  • flexible vacation time
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard Skills & Tools
production/site-reliability engineeringserver-side software engineeringpublic cloud infrastructureLinux systems administrationDevOps toolingautomationtechnical guardrails
Soft Skills
strong written communicationstrong verbal communicationcollaborationmentoringleadership