Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Summary

Join our growing SRE team as a Senior Site Reliability Engineer! You will design and implement scalable, reliable infrastructure and services, enhancing platform performance and reliability. Leverage your expertise in backend systems and infrastructure management to influence architecture and operational excellence. Responsibilities include architecting critical infrastructure, strategically planning infrastructure growth, streamlining processes, participating in on-call rotations, developing observability, troubleshooting issues, and contributing to a collaborative team environment. This pivotal role requires extensive experience in SRE, managing large projects, relational databases (especially MySQL), and cloud infrastructure (GCP advantageous). You'll need proven skills in Terraform, Golang, Bash, and strong communication abilities. Customer.io offers a competitive salary, comprehensive benefits, and a supportive work environment.

Requirements

• 7+ years of professional experience as a Site Reliability Engineer, with proven experience leading large complex projects affecting production SaaS environments
• Professional experience with relational database systems, managing the servers and tuning performance, particularly MySQL
• Proven experience managing scale, reliability and performance challenges managing distributed applications on cloud infrastructure (Google Cloud Platform is advantageous), both managed and self-hosted solutions
• Proven ability to build cloud infrastructure using Terraform and develop operational tooling in various languages including Golang and Bash
• Deep knowledge of UNIX environments and modern collaborative development practices
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, with a collaborative mindset to make informed, empathetic decisions
• Ability to work autonomously in your timezone, advancing tasks and projects with minimal guidance
• Demonstrated ability to influence product direction and contribute technical insights that help drive business value
• A strong focus on proactive identification and resolving issues in production environments
• A self-starter who thrives in both synchronous and asynchronous work environments

Responsibilities

• Architect and maintain critical infrastructure to enable Customer.io to scale and handle real-time processing of billions of messages
• Strategically plan and implement infrastructure growth to meet evolving demands and repeatability
• Streamline and automate processes for efficiency and reliability, removing manual toil
• Participate in on-call rotations to swiftly address availability incidents and support technical engineers with customer-related issues
• Develop observability to ensure comprehensive monitoring and effective alerting of infrastructure and applications
• Troubleshoot and resolve production issues across various services and stack levels
• Contribute to a collaborative and supportive team environment, fostering individual, professional, and team growth
• Engage in continuous learning and knowledge sharing through code reviews, pair programming, and team collaborations to refine best practices

Benefits

• Unlimited PTO - we encourage at least 20 vacation days (in addition to holidays and sick days) so that you can unwind, unplug, and recharge
• 16 weeks paid parental leave (including adoption and foster care)
• 100% paid insurance premiums for you and your dependents
• 401k retirement matching - up to 5% dollar-for-dollar match to retirement contributions
• $1,500 annual healthy lifestyle budget (for gym memberships, classes, fitness equipment)
• $250/monthly Remote Work Stipend to be used for home internet, cell phone, and other miscellaneous remote work costs
• $300/month co-working space rental reimbursement
• $2,000/yearly professional education budget for conferences, courses, workshops, books, etc
• $1,500 home office budget to make sure your working space is ergonomic and just what you need to do your best work!
• One month sabbatical after five years at Customer.io
• We also have opportunities to meet in person with your peers throughout the year