Parabola is looking to improve the reliability and performance of their software, which is used by forward-thinking teams to automate manual work, by hiring a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to measure and improve the software's performance, and propel the company towards high impact improvements that customers value.
Requirements
- 5+ years of SRE, DevOps, or Platform engineering experience
- A proven record of building efficient, performant, and easy to extend systems.
- Has maintained quantitative metrics of site reliability, while also demonstrating judgment about appropriate strictness for SLOs & SLAs.
- Familiarity with containerization and orchestration tools (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) and how they interact with backend services, and with Linux
- Experience implementing and managing AWS infrastructure
- Experience with Temporal.
- Familiarity with Kubernetes/Helm (we use Amazon EKS)
Responsibilities
- Monitoring our core business-logic software, both via on-call and in non-urgent situations: describing its existing behavior and defining SLOs or SLAs that get us (you and we) to respond.
- Extending and monitoring our infrastructure stack. Because we are B2B, we have fewer raw users, but their usage is often business-critical and we need the infrastructure for that.
- Maintaining both a mental and a reified model of our systems: from this model, estimating risk, planning projects, and debugging efficiently.
- Collaborating with our engineering team and company leadership from your unique lens on site reliability — being vocal and clear in your expertise in this specialization
- Working on our core orchestration logic that determines how to efficiently run tens of thousands of workflows at the same time - we recently rebuilt our orchestrator on top of Temporal and we love it!
- Advising many parallel major backend engineering projects, both early in planning and through release. Join such projects for building from time-to-time.
- Optimizing our services for scalability, stability, and observability as our customer base grows and our product becomes more sophisticated.
Other
- You’re not afraid to ask for help, and you’re happy to give it, too.
- You’re an enthusiastic communicator and you like working with a team that provides both mutual support and thoughtful critique.
- You're excited to join a hybrid team and work out of our NYC or SF office ~3 days a week.
- 5+ years of experience
- You're happy to work in a full-time, hybrid role
