Weedmaps is hiring a
Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Summary

Join Weedmaps as a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to work cross-departmentally with partners on application, infrastructure, and quality teams to enhance the performance, reliability, resilience, and scalability of web services. As a senior engineer, you will leverage your engineering skills to assist in building, monitoring, reducing developer toil, configuring CI workflows, and improving deployment pipelines.

Requirements

• Minimum 5 years of experience at startup/mid-sized companies
• Proficiency in at least one, Python, Go, Node, Ruby or Elixir
• Experience using/operating Kubernetes in a production environment
• Effective communication skills, a positive attitude, and ability to give and receive constructive feedback
• Ability to learn fast and be adaptable to environments and change
• Strong bias for action and strong decision-making capabilities
• Must be capable of self-managing. Prioritization and time management are an absolute must
• Professional experience with cloud native observability standard such as Open metrics, Open tracing and Open Census
• Expertise using/configuring modern CI/CD workflows
• Intimate understanding and experience implementing of SLIs, SLOs and SLAs from the service level to the business level
• Intimate understanding of the golden metrics, how to monitor and alert on them
• Deep understanding of the GitHub branching strategy
• Experience troubleshooting containerized applications
• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code, automation and configuration

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with stakeholders to drive best practices for monitoring, CI/CD pipelines
• Troubleshoot deployment issues in our CI/CD pipeline
• Advocate emphatically for the DevOps culture here at Weedmaps
• Identify areas for automation and embrace the codification of all things
• Evangelize best practices around collaboration, reliability, security, and performance to all partner teams
• Take ownership of the application configuration/scaling for given services to ensure that they are following the established practices of the organization
• Create and refine synthetic monitoring flows
• Help teams understand the reliability of their services using metrics and observability

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure concepts (AWS, GCP)
• Experience with Hashicorp tools such as Terraform, Consul, Vault
• Computer science or other engineering background
• Experience with CI tools such as CircleCi, Jenkins, Travis, Drone, Semaphore, etc
• Experience with monitoring and observability with tools like Prometheus, CloudWatch, DataDog, and Grafana

Benefits

• Physical Health benefits: Medical, Dental & Vision: Employee - employer paid premium 100%
• Company contribution to a HSA when electing the High Deductible Health Plan
• For plans that offer coverage to your dependents, you pay a small contribution
• Mental Health benefits: Free access to CALM app for employees and dependents
• Employee Training
• Mental Health seminars and Q&A sessions
• Basic Life & AD&D - employer paid 1x salary up to $250,000
• 401(k) Retirement Plan (with employer match contribution)
• Generous PTO, Paid Sick Leave, and Company Holidays
• Supplemental, voluntary benefits: Student Loan Repayment/529 Education Savings - including a company contribution
• FSA (Medical, Dependent, Transit and Parking)
• Voluntary Life and AD&D Insurance
• Critical Illness Insurance
• Accident Insurance
• Short- and Long-term Disability Insurance
• Pet Insurance
• Family planning/fertility
• Identity theft protection
• Legal access to a network of attorneys
• Paid parental leave