Site Reliability Engineer
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Team Description
The Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team at Pendo is responsible for provisioning and maintaining cloud infrastructure from development through production for all product initiatives and working with developers and product managers to ensure that our products are not only reliable and performant but also cost-efficient. Our platform is built on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) and utilizes several other Google technologies such as Memorystore Cloud Datastore PubSub Cloud Functions BigQuery and Vertex AI as well as services from other vendors such as Amazon SES.
In the development process SREs provide developers with stable and performant CI and release pipelines and development environments to facilitate frequent delivery of new product features. In production SREs perform Tier 1 on-call and incident management functions supporting a high-throughput platform which processes more than 15 billion events per day. To ensure the reliability of this environment for our customers SREs work closely with developers and product managers to understand service level objectives think through failures scenarios and design systems which balance cost with reliability objectives. Additionally SREs collaborate with the Information Security team to ensure that cloud infrastructure is properly secured and that sufficient controls are in place to meet our compliance goals with respect to industry standards such as SOC 2.
Role Responsibilities
- Write high-quality infrastructure-as-code that automates the provisioning deployment scaling and monitoring of Pendos infrastructure to ensure that it is reliable and performant
- Write maintainable code for product functionality with a primary emphasis on operations scale resiliency and monitoring
- Work with other engineers to ensure that new services are well-designed properly monitored and have well-defined SLIs and achievable SLOs
- Debug production issues learn to mitigate them quickly and find ways to prevent them
- Maintain runbooks for manual tasks and replace those runbooks with automation whenever possible
- Proactively track our capacity quotas and other performance limits to plan for growth
- Participate in a 24x7 on-call rotation to handle product availability issues as well as urgent customer support escalations
Minimum Qualifications
- Experience working with cloud infrastructure using tools such as Ansible or Terraform
- Programming skills in a language such as Go or Python and a willingness to learn new
- languages as needed
- Ability to think and talk about systems in terms of possible failure modes bottlenecks etc.
- Ability to write clear and concise English-language documentation of processes for incident
- runbooks and release processes
- Good number sense for discussing performance analysis cost analysis and operational metrics
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience designing analyzing and troubleshooting distributed systems
- Experience maintaining Kubernetes clusters in a production environment
- Previous experience as a Site Reliability Engineer DevOps Engineer or similar role
Pendo Description:
Pendo was founded in 2013 by former product managers who combined their heads and hearts to build something they wanted but never had as product managers -- a simple way to understand and attack what truly drives product success. Our mission is to improve societys experience with software.
Come join one of the fastest-growing startups supported by best-in-class institutions like Battery Ventures Salesforce Ventures Spark Capital and Meritech. You will gain experience in a diverse and exciting set of technologies and clients and have a real impact on Pendos future. Our culture is passionate dynamic and fun.
EEOC
We are an equal opportunity employer and believe having diverse teams where everyone brings their whole self to Pendo is key to our success. We welcome all people of different backgrounds experiences abilities and perspectives.
Accessibility
Pendo is committed to working with and providing access and reasonable accommodation to applicants with mental and/or physical disabilities. If you think you may require an accommodation for any part of the recruitment process please send a request to: All requests for accommodations are treated discreetly and confidentially as practical and permitted by law.
Compensation
Our salary ranges are based on paying competitively for our size and industry and are one part of many compensation benefits and other reward opportunities we provide.
Individual pay rate decisions including offers made within and over the expected salary range are based on a number of factors including qualifications for the role experience level skillset and balancing internal equity relative to peers at the company.
Employment Type
Full Time
