Patreon is hiring a
Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Remote - Worldwide

Summary

The job is for a Site Reliability Engineer at Patreon. The role involves contributing to AWS cloud infrastructure initiatives, participating in operability reviews, implementing SRE practices, enhancing the kubernetes developer platform, providing automation for routine tasks, supporting critical infrastructure components, and having excellent documentation and communication skills.

Requirements

• You have experience in DevOps, Site Reliability, or backend/infrastructure engineering for a company experiencing fast-paced growth
• You are proficient with a programming language like Python and shell scripting
• You have hands on experience implementing Site Reliability Engineering practices (SLIs, SLOs, SLAs) and like using metrics to make data based decisions
• You are knowledgeable in configuration management with a framework such as Terraform, Ansible, Chef, or Puppet
• You’ve worked with continuous integration and deployment systems, and have ideas about how to build and improve those systems
• Your documentation and verbal communication skills are excellent, and you’re able to collaborate and rally support with people on and off your team

Responsibilities

• Contribute to high impact AWS cloud infrastructure initiatives to improve the performance, reliability, and cost efficiency of Patreon’s rapidly growing platform
• Participate in operability reviews and production readiness reviews to ensure the scalability, resiliency, and operability of new and existing product features
• Advocate and implement Site Reliability Engineering practices including SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs across the engineering organization to improve our operational excellence
• Enhance the feature set of our new kubernetes developer platform and work with partner teams to migrate their workloads over to it
• Provide a delightful and automated experience to our constituent teams by developing tooling and automation to facilitate self service for routine tasks
• Support and maintain critical infrastructure components including our infrastructure as code project, centralized observability stack, and Cloudflare edge

Benefits

Patreon offers a competitive benefits package including salary, equity plans, healthcare, unlimited paid time off, company holidays and recharge days, commuter benefits, lifestyle stipends, learning and development stipends, patronage, parental leave, and 401k plan with matching