Site Reliability Engineer
Dropbox
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Mexico
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About the role
- Ensure the reliability, scalability, and performance of Dropbox's infrastructure and services
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop and maintain best practices for monitoring, logging, and incident response
- Build, Implement and maintain automations & infrastructure-as-code tooling, specifically Terraform, Ansible, and Github Actions as well as custom code platforms
- Utilize container orchestration platforms, such as Kubernetes, Amazon ECS and Red Hat Openshift, to manage containers at scale
- Manage and optimize monitoring and logging pipelines using tools like Datadog and Cribl LogStream
- Drive improvement projects related to service health and visibility for our stakeholders, ranging from developers to business service owners to C-level
- Develop and maintain custom tooling and automation scripts in Bash, Python and other scripting languages
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in site reliability engineering or a similar engineering roles with hands-on coding experience
- Strong knowledge of AWS services, including EC2, S3, RDS, R53, Lambda, and others
- Strong knowledge of Linux administration, internals, filesystems, volume management and specific distro's such as Ubuntu, RHEL, DNS, DHCP
- Experience with monitoring and logging tools, Datadog and logging pipeline tools such as Vector or Cribl LogStream
- Experience driving one or more transformational programs related to metrics and observability
- Experience with scripting in a higher level language (Python preferred)
- Experience developing automation to solve infrastructure-related tasks with tools such as Chef/Ansible/Terraform
- Experience with log analysis and building metrics, alerts and visuals from log data
- Strong proficiency in infrastructure-as-code tools, such as Terraform
- Strong Proficiency in Config Management tools specifically Ansible Automation Platform and Chef
- Experience with containerization technologies, such as Docker, and container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes or Amazon ECS
- Knowledge of LDAP, REST API's and current Auth
- Familiarity with GitHub and Git-based workflows
- Understanding of RDS databases and network security technologies, such as WAF
- Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work well in a fast-paced, collaborative environment
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Flexible work hours
- Professional development budget
- Home office setup allowance
- Global team events
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
site reliability engineeringinfrastructure-as-codescriptingLinux administrationmonitoring and loggingautomationcontainer orchestrationlog analysisconfig managementproblem-solving
Soft Skills
collaborationcommunicationorganizational skillsfast-paced workstakeholder engagement