Desired Skills and Experience

  • Build highly available, performant and scalable service infrastructure with AWS and software
  • Design, develop and implement software that improves the stability, scalability, availability and latency of Cookpad.
  • Solve problems occurring with our highly available production systems and build solutions and automation to prevent them from happening again
  • Participate in the operations on-call rotation, triaging and addressing production issues as they arise
  • Contribute to internal tools that help us improve our operations processes, manage our infrastructure, and scale our systems
  • Engage with product engineering teams to triage production outages and carry forward action items to improve ongoing reliability
  • Undertake measured, methodical, troubleshooting of complicated systems under pressure
  • 3+ years SRE/DevOps experience in a Linux based AWS environment
  • 2+ years experience with working professionally with Ruby on Rails
  • Strong written communication skills in English and develop working relationships with coworkers in locations around the globe
  • Fundamentals of TCP/IP(OSI) model and network architectures
  • Strong coding skills in at least one programming language. Cookpad server side engineers work primarily in Ruby, with smatterings of shell script, Go, and Python
  • You are familiar with configuration management software such as Puppet and Chef
  • You possess a passion for solving problems using open source software
  • Solid foundation in deployment and management for large scale of Linux systems
  • Understand large-scale complex systems from a reliability perspective
  • Solid competency with SQL (ideally in a federated database environment; MySQL a plus)
  • Contributions to open source
  • Deep network analysis experience is a plus
  • Strong Linux system-level analysis capabilities (Ubuntu a plus)
  • Knowledge and experiences about highly available and scalable architectures for services expanded in multi-regions is a big plus