Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Summary

Join Stack as a Site Reliability Engineer and contribute to the development and maintenance of our autonomous vehicle systems. You will be responsible for ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of our production systems. This role involves monitoring mission-critical services, designing and implementing scalable systems, and building an incident management framework. You will also automate processes, document procedures, and participate in on-call rotations. The ideal candidate possesses expertise in scripting languages, Linux systems, cloud technologies, and infrastructure-as-code principles. Strong communication skills and experience with cloud-native tools are essential.

Requirements

• Expertise in at least one scripting language (e.g. Bash, Python)
• Fundamental understanding of Linux operating system internals, TCP/IP networking, and storage subsystems
• Experience scaling and securing services in the cloud (AWS, GCP) or cloud native environments
• Experience using infrastructure-as-code principles to automate the creation of infrastructure resources (e.g. Terraform, CloudFormation)
• Understanding of engineering design limitations and ability to provide guidance to teams to scale their services to achieve desired performance within budget
• Strong experience implementing and debugging cloud native and open source tools such as Kubernetes, etcd, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, and Istio
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work effectively in a diverse and distributed team

Responsibilities

• Monitor and maintain mission-critical production services to ensure maximum uptime
• Design and implement scalable distributed systems to facilitate the development of self-driving vehicles
• Design and implement an incident management framework and build a culture of blameless postmortems and continuous learning
• Scale the reliability and velocity of our systems and processes through increased automation
• Document actions to build a comprehensive library of runbooks, which will act as a knowledge base and foundation for automation
• Participate in an on-call rotation to uphold the SLOs and SLAs of production services