Stack Exchange is hiring a
Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Summary

Join our team as a Site Reliability Engineer to help protect our platforms from malicious attacks, bot activities, and unauthorized data scraping. As an SRE, you will collaborate with application development teams to identify gaps and opportunities to improve security and reliability across our products.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with other SREs, developers, Product teams, and our security team to configure and maintain CDN services such as WAF, DDoS protection, and Bot management using infrastructure as code
• Design, implement, and manage strategies to mitigate and block abusive traffic, such as DDoS attacks and fraudulent account creation ensuring high availability and reliability of our services
• Collaborate with other SREs, developers, and our Product teams to develop and deploy solutions to identify, block, and manage bot traffic
• Collaborate with other SREs, developers, and our Product teams to implement and maintain sophisticated anti-scraping technologies to protect our assets from unauthorized scraping efforts
• Improve the observability of our systems to help identify issues and preemptively detect potential threats by iterating on our monitoring and alerting strategies
• Reduce toil through software solutions by removing or automating manual tasks, steps, and workflows
• Improve our security patching and compliance strategy for cloud solutions
• Participate in our on-call rotation (typically 1 fortnight out of 4 months)
• Partner closely with your peers to accomplish goals within an agile software development lifecycle