Sr Site Reliability Engineer Cloud
Sr Site Reliability Engineer Cloud
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Job Description
Who we are
Kentik is the network intelligence platform for modern infrastructure teams. Unlike traditional monitoring and observability tools we demystify complex network operations enabling organizations to deliver applications and innovation at scale. Built by network experts to make critical insight accessible to every engineer Kentik is the realtime source of truth that understands every network in context from data center to cloud to the internet. This single platform unifies and correlates cloud device flow synthetic data to turn telemetry into action. Market leaders like Akamai Booking Dropbox and Zoom rely on Kentik to run manage and optimize their networks.
What we do
Our platform ingests trillions of records and serves hundreds of thousands of queries for our users each day. You will gain experience building a production quality high performance serverandclient SaaS application that handles uniquely high volumes of data.
We have built a team of worldclass engineers network experts and technology thought leaders in a remotefriendly culture from day one. While prior experience in a remote environment is not required we highly value strong collaboration and communication skills as well as a high level of independence and autonomy.
*This is a remote role. However due to the location of the teams we are hiring for working hours in US time zones is a requirement for this position.
What youll do
Kentik is looking for a Senior level Site Reliability Engineer (Cloud) to join our Product Engineering team. This person will help build and maintain our Synthetics and Cloud product lines. These products have multiple applications deployed in various cloud providers all over the world and we manage these cloud applications using observability tooling automated build processes and adherence to configuration as code best practices.
Were looking for an experienced engineer who will work with engineering teams across the company to help grow our hardware and software infrastructure. We operate a wellorganized wellinstrumented platform and offer enormous opportunities for employee growth.
- Ensure our realtime scalable infrastructure is set up for growth and working efficiently. Our infrastructure runs on our own hardware across multiple locations as well as all major cloud vendors
- Work on tools and processes to better monitor our platform as well as ensuring its stability through our rapid growth
- Deepdive into diverse topics from firewalls and IP routing to database replication strategies or automating build processes
- Collaborate with engineering and infrastructure teams on finding solutions from an operational perspective
- Assist with expanding our cloud deployments across the major cloud providers
- Contribute code code reviews and tools or patches to all kinds of existing code
- Write design documents or collaborate on colleagues docs to introduce new features or changes into our infrastructure
- Provide valuable feedback on team goals projects and processes. We believe in continuously improving our team
What youll bring
Studies have shown that some candidates tend to apply to jobs only if they meet 100 of the qualifications. We encourage you to apply if you meet most of the criteria even if you dont match all of the qualifications your skills and experience could be valuable in this role!
- 5 years of experience in cloudbased Systems Administration IT and/or SRE related projects
- Strong experience with public cloud container and orchestration technologies including AWS GCP Azure Kubernetes and Docker
- Solid programming and automation skills (Bash Python Go) including experience working with configuration management (infrastructure as code) platforms such as Terraform Ansible and Puppet
- Experience working with *nix system command line (e.g. ssh grep awk)
- Detailed understanding of major internet protocols (TCP/IP DNS HTTP TLS)
- Networking administration experience: concepts such as routing firewalls (iptables) peering sound familiar
- A passion for documenting code processes and infrastructure in runbooks and wikis
- Worked with metrics monitoring solutions such as grafana prometheus telegraf and OpenTelemetry
- Experience creating and managing tickets with third party vendors and owning cloud vendor partner relationships
Nice to haves:
- Familiarity with Kubernetes orchestration and automation tools such as Helm Kustomize ArgoCD and Flux
- Experience optimizing CI/CD pipelines such as GitHub Actions Earthly and Jenkins
- Exposure to PagerDuty Integrations
- Knowledge of SRE DevOps and GitOps practices and principles
What we offer
Kentik is a fully remote company that operates globally. We seek professionals that will help us thrive as an organization and in turn to broaden and enhance your career. Were very thorough in the interview process to understand your skills and how they will relate to your successful growth here at Kentik. Our compensation philosophy encompasses a fair program for all in order to attract engage and retain talented individuals who will drive our business and wow our customers.
The compensation range for this position is: $159000 $215000.This range reflects the low and high end of the U.S. compensation range Kentik reasonably and generally expects to pay the hired candidate in this role. The actual compensation offered may be lower or higher than the stated range depending on various factors including but not limited to:
- Experience with the skill sets required for success
- Demonstrated competencies and potential
- A geographic marketbased approach
In addition to a great career opportunity Kentik offers stellar benefits for our employees which include:
- 100 of premiums are paid by company for health vision and dental coverage for you and your dependents
- Additionally an annual Health Reimbursement Account (HRA) of $3000 for an individual or $4500 for a family
- Paid family & medical leave
- Open PTO a quarterly Wellness Day and a minimum of 10 paid holidays
- 401(k) retirement account
- Home office reimbursement
- Stock options
Note: Benefits are as listed for all US fulltime employees. For compensation international applicants will be treated equitably in relation to the laws applicable within the countries in which we operate.
Come work with us
The true meaning of Kentik is visibility. Were committed to making sure everyone feels empowered to use their voice has a sense of belonging and is represented at Kentik.
We dont look for individuals who fit the culture but those who will continue to add to the culture.
We encourage everyone to apply especially those individuals who are underrepresented in the industry: people of color LGBTQI community women individuals with disabilities (both seen and unseen) veterans and people of any age or family status.
Kentik is committed to creating an inclusive interview process. If you require a reasonable accommodation during the application or interview process please reach out to
Come as you are!
You will be working at a fastgrowing wellfunded startup alongside industry thought leaders and network aficionados as we build the future of observability and set the high bar for how network operations and digital businesses should run. With a competitive salary and amazing benefits on top of the meaningful and challenging projects youll take on were sure youll enjoy joining the Kentik team.
#liremote
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full Time
