DevOps Engineer / Site Reliability Engineer (up to $160k) San Francisco, CA   This company is a consumer web startup located in San Francisco with millions of users and rapid growth.  The company is growing its size, number of customers, and technologies used. The product is hosted on Amazon Web Services (EC2), and the server stack includes Python, PostgreSQL, Redis, and HAProxy.

Job responsibilities: - Working with deployment tools/processes, performance testing and tuning, configuration management, security, capacity planning, logging systems, DBA & sysadmin duties, test environments, technical operations strategy/processes. - Responding to and resolving issues we encounter. -  Implementing monitoring and alerting to shorten the mean time to response and recovery. - Proactively reducing risk and making our systems easier to manage. - Learning from and addressing root causes to avoid similar issues in the future. - Communicating with stakeholders informing them of incidents, impact, and your recommended actions.  

Desired Skills and Experience

Requirements: - Experience in this role at a high traffic website or platform. - Solid communication & interpersonal skills. - Intellectual curiosity, humility and desire to learn. - Proficiency in scripting. - Understanding of the web stack including frontend, application layer, caching, and databases. - Experience reducing meant time to recovery (MTTR) using monitoring & alerting tools and techniques. - Experience with CDNs, configuration management, and load balancers.   Nice to have: - Startup experience. - AWS experience. - Computer Science Degree or equivalent. - Python experience.