Senior Site Reliability Engineer (REMOTE)
Senior Site Reliability Engineer (REMOTE)
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Job Description
The Discogs Platform team is focused on several objectives: building and supporting performant cost-effective reliable infrastructure; developer experience tooling and mentorship; and creating golden paths for organization-wide standards and velocity. As a Platform member the Senior Site Reliability Engineer will contribute to the Platform teams centralized infrastructure including maintenance monitoring and automation of services ranging from databases to Kubernetes; lead incident response and postmortem efforts; and work closely with other engineering teams to understand their needs and drive improvements to both our technologies and processes.
Location
This is a remote position. Open to candidates located in OR WA CA CO TX IL
Compensation
Starting Base Salary Range: $130000 - $140000 yearly
Who We Are
We are dedicated to supporting a global community of music fans and collectors who share the value culture connection and joy of record collecting. Fostering the exchange of knowledge records and curation we help people help each other deepen their relationship with music. Leveraging the power of community we are committed to enabling people to explore artists and their recorded works through the worlds definitive music discography stay informed with record collection and sales history data get organized with specialized collection management tools and stay connected to a global community of fellow record collectors and sellers. Providing this essential set of resources tools and access we aim to unleash boundless opportunities for people to dig into the depths of their musical interests build and fortify their record collections cultivate and bridge communities and elevate their connection to music and record collecting.
What Youll Accomplish
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Maintaining organization cloud presence in AWS
- Automating and deploying infrastructure configurations using Infrastructure as Code (IAC)
- Mentoring engineering squads on Platform best practices for Kubernetes MySQL Kafka and other software development lifecycle areas
- Assist engineering squads with capacity planning infrastructure budgeting and production readiness
- Writing documentation and runbooks that contribute to the engineering organizations knowledge base
- Implementing monitoring and alerting systems with Discogs observability tools
- Working in a containerized orchestrated environment
- Participating in on-call rotation responding to incidents and troubleshooting data and other operations issues
- Contribute to efforts on the reliability and design patterns of our Kafka Kafka Connect and database implementations
Requirements
What Youll Contribute
Minimum Education and Experience
- A Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or similar area of focus or equivalent relevant work experience.
- 5 years experience in Ops DevOps Site Reliability Platform or other systems roles.
Required Skills & Abilities:
- Infrastructure-as-code (Terraform)
- CI/CD (GitHub Actions)
- GitOps (ArgoCD)
- Kubernetes (EKS Kustomize Karpenter administration application manifests)
- AWS and cloud development (VPC EKS RDS S3)
- FinOps and cloud cost optimization
- Observability (Datadog Sentry)
- Scripting (Shell Python)
- Track record of collaboration and mentorship
- Excellent written communication and documentation skills
- Continuous learning
- Ownership and proactive approach to solving large problems
Preferred:
- Kafka: Cluster administration (Strimzi) Kafka Connect (Debezium JDBC)
- Relational database administration and performance (MySQL Percona Server AWS RDS)
- Elasticsearch (ECK administration scaling performance)
- Python (SQLAlchemy FastAPI)
- GraphQL (schema design Apollo federation)
- REST API
- Hashicorp Vault
- Redis
- Memcached
The Platform team covers a wide range of technical topics and wed love to hear about your skills beyond this list!
Benefits
What We Provide
- Competitive compensation: salary plus performance-related bonus program
- 401(k) with employer match
- 100% company-paid medical and dental insurance benefits for you and your dependents
- 4 weeks paid vacation increasing based on tenure
- 18 weeks paid leave for birth moms
- 8 weeks paid parental leave including for adoption
- Monthly wellness allowance
- Annual professional and personal development allowance
- Work from home office set-up and expense allowances
- Flexible work location opportunities
- Employer matching toward charitable contributions
What We Believe In
Were building a world idealized for record collectors driven by community and fueled by a shared passion for music. Through culture information and innovation we strive to develop a complete ecosystem of resources to empower music lovers and entrepreneurs everywhere to engage more deeply in the joys and possibilities of record collecting. We foster a collaborative community dedicated to preserving the recording industrys past present and unfolding future by cataloging the worlds complete interconnected music discography. Leveraging the power of this dynamic knowledge base we aim to innovate integrated technologies to empower music fans everywhere to embark on a boundless journey of music discovery and record collecting. We envision this to be the complete collecting journey.
Discogs is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Applicants needing accommodation to apply should contact us at
Discogs does not promote job openings through text messaging. If you receive a text message claiming to offer a position at our company please disregard it as fraudulent. For a list of our actively open positions and to apply please visit the official Careers page on our website: you apply for this role you will be required to upload a resume cover letter and fill out a few questions regarding your application. Once submitted our hiring team will review your application and contact you if you are selected for an interview. Whether you are successful or not we will store your application and data in our system for a maximum period of one year from the application date in case another role becomes available that you are suitable for. If you have any questions or concerns about us storing this data and/or the period of time please contact us at and we will respond to you within 30 days.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
