Staff Site Reliability Engineer

Summary

Join Gemini's Platform team as a Staff Site Reliability Engineer and play a key role in leading engineering teams towards modern DevOps practices. You will provide operational support and engineering for Gemini services, improve reliability and time-to-market, guide engineering teams on platform services, and run performance evaluations. Responsibilities include architecture recommendations, creating production-ready scorecards, implementing monitoring best practices, defining SLIs/SLOs, and educating teams on reliability best practices. This role requires extensive experience with monitoring, alerting, automation, cloud technologies, containerization, configuration management, scripting, and performance analysis. Gemini offers a competitive compensation and benefits package, including a competitive salary, annual bonus, equity grant, comprehensive health plans, 401k matching, paid parental leave, and flexible time off.

Requirements

• 7+ years using monitoring, alerting, and automation tooling to understand and remediate performance and health issues in systems at scale
• Good knowledge for various cloud technology providers like AWS, GCP, or Azure
• Experience in a code-first environment, developing automated solutions to solve support and operational issues
• Experience as a Technical Leader within a team, helping evaluating and making tech decisions for the team
• Experience working with containerization such as Nomad, EKS (k8s), Docker, etc
• Experience working with Configuration Management such as Ansible, Chef, Puppet
• Experience writing scripts or cli tools that help increase Developer Productivity in high-level languages like Python, Go, etc
• Experience analyzing system and application performance, identifying bottlenecks, and recommending architectural or systemic improvements
• Experience working with Engineering teams, teaching, training, and mentoring on how to implement best-practice technical solutions
• Experience working in a code-drive, automation-first public cloud infrastructure (Terraform)

Responsibilities

• Provide primary operational support and engineering for various Gemini services
• Improve reliability, quality and time-to-market across all Gemini services and offerings
• Guide engineering teams onto the various supported services provided by Platform
• Run on-going performance evaluations and improvements for Gemini systems
• Provide architecture recommendations and engagement as part of SDLC
• Create “Production-ready Scorecards” to evaluate the health of systems pre-launch
• Implement and teaching monitoring, alerting and automated resolution best practices
• Define SLIs, SLOs with Engineering teams
• Educate and guide Engineering teams on reliability and resiliency best practices, like statelessness, chaos testing, blue/green deployments etc
• Build operational tooling and automations

Benefits

• Competitive starting salary
• A discretionary annual bonus
• Long-term incentive in the form of a new hire equity grant
• Comprehensive health plans
• 401K with company matching
• Paid Parental Leave
• Flexible time off