Desired Skills and Experience
- Operate our databases, caches, queues, and streaming data pipelines
- Maintain systems supporting billions of records and millions of transactions with high concurrency
- Contribute to and run blameless post-mortems to help us learn from system outages
- Build and maintain internal tools to interact with our infrastructure
- Maintain our Docker-based, zero-downtime deployment systems
- Provide sophisticated monitoring by instrumenting our infrastructure and applications
- Monitor and tune our alerting schemes to relentlessly combat false positives and alert fatigue
- Pursue efficiency and eliminate waste in our use of cloud computing resources
- Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in computer science or a related field
- 2+ years operations engineer experience
- Knowledge of Linux, Git, and all the usual tools
- Exceptional problem-solving skills
- Proficient with at least one of: Bash, Python, Ruby, Go
- Amazon Web Services
- PostgreSQL, MySQL, or MongoDB databases