Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Summary

Join the Wikimedia Foundation as a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Databases and be part of a small team ensuring the health of our database systems. As a key member, you will support development and deployment, troubleshoot issues, automate tasks, plan for disaster recovery, and maintain backups.

Requirements

• Proficient at automation/programming/scripting skills
• Experience with Open Source configuration management and orchestration tools (Puppet, Ansible, Chef, SaltStack, etc.), as well as modern observability infrastructure (Prometheus, Grafana, Logstash/Kibana, Icinga/Nagios, etc.)
• Advanced knowledge of Linux and IO/data storage concepts, internals and troubleshooting
• Experience with managing remotely both bare-metal servers and virtualized environments
• 5+ years experience in an SRE/Operations/DevOps role as part of a team
• Experience with high traffic and highly available website architectures and operations
• Strong English language skills
• Ability to work independently in a fast paced environment, as an effective part of a globally distributed team, including ticket tracking systems and asynchronous communication tools
• B.Sc. or M.Sc. in Computer Science or equivalent work experience

Responsibilities

• Operation, maintenance, troubleshooting and automation of relational database systems in production and staging environments
• Handling configuration management, (Debian) package maintenance, patching and building, working with upstream on bug identification and resolution
• Improving observability (alerting, metrics, monitoring) of database infrastructure
• Multi-datacenter systems design, capacity and infrastructure planning
• Taking part in incident response, diagnosis and follow-up on system outages or alerts across Wikimedia’s production infrastructure and participating in an on call rotation
• Sharing our values and work in accordance with them

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Retirement benefits
• Paid time off
• Remote work, flexible hours