Lead Site Reliability Engineer/DevOps

Roberts Recruiting, LLC; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Market salary

Stock options

Flexible working hours

All-you-can-eat vacation

Health/dental/FSA

Long-term disability insurance

Subsidized T-passes

Job summary

A technology-driven company in Boston is seeking a hands-on Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to lead its infrastructure engineering team. The role involves designing and maintaining high-performance systems, increasing developer productivity, and developing operational standards. Ideal candidates thrive in collaborative environments and have a strong background in distributed systems. The company offers competitive salary, stock options, flexible working hours, and a range of benefits.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in building and maintaining infrastructure.
• Solid track record of leading small to medium infrastructure teams.
• Experience with distributed SaaS or eCommerce systems.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain core infrastructure.
• Manage the backlog for the infrastructure team.
• Develop operational and security standards.
• Participate in on-call rotations.

Skills

Collaboration in rapid-growth environment

Building tooling for developer productivity

Automation of repetitive tasks

Unix command line expertise

Leading infrastructure teams

Tools

AWS

Ruby on Rails

Terraform

ElasticSearch

Job description

We’re looking for a top‑notch, hands‑on SRE to lead our small and talented infrastructure engineering team and help us elevate our game when it comes to designing, building and operating high‑performance and highly‑available systems.

Every engineer is responsible for the software they build, and SREs play a critical part in providing the tools, practices, and expertise to support them.

Our production systems are hosted in AWS data centers running a large Ruby on Rails web application and a handful of smaller services in Ruby, Node.js, and Java. We currently deploy an average of 5 times a day. Our systems are stable and fire drills are rare.

Technologies we’re currently using include:

• Amazon Web Services (EC2, ELB, S3, RDS, ElastiCache) and Ubuntu Linux
• Postgres, Redis, Memcached, ElasticSearch
• Chef, ServerSpec, Terraform, NewRelic, DataDog, Sumo Logic and Test Kitchen

In this mission‑critical role, what you’ll do:

• Design, build and maintain the core infrastructure
• Actively manage the backlog for our infrastructure team and work closely with other SREs on the team to provide coaching and mentorship
• Help us increase developer productivity and get to true continuous delivery
• Develop operational and security standards and champion operational excellence and secure coding practices
• Partner with engineering teams closely to educate and consult
• Participate in solution design for new features, products, systems, and tooling
• Debug complex problems across the whole stack
• Continually monitor application/system performance and costs, generate actionable insights and either implement or advocate for them
• Participate in on‑call rotations, along with every member of the engineering team
• Ruthlessly eliminate repetitive manual tasks and recurring errors
• Ensure we are always employing best‑of‑breed tooling for all our infrastructure and automation needs
• Collaboratively plot course for the maturing and growth of ourinfrastructure
• Participate (and sometimes run point) in handling production incidents
• Work closely with engineering teams to conduct root cause analysis for production incidents, and evolve infrastructure and tooling.

This role might be that rare opportunity if you have:

• Thrive in a highly collaborative, no red‑tape, rapid‑growth environment
• Love building tooling and infrastructure to help developers be more productive
• Love eliminating repetitive manual tasks through automation
• Have a healthy appreciation of what it means to work in production
• Have solid Unix command line and systems chops
• Have experience with substantial, distributed SaaS or eCommerce systems
• Can point to a solid track record of success leading small‑to‑medium infrastructure teams
• Have vision and well‑informed opinions about how to build infrastructure for a high‑growth, technology‑driven company that’s headed towards the $1B mark

What you’ll get from us:

Importantly, you’ll get sane working hours and a huge amount of flexibility around work/life balance. Have people in your life – of any age – who always, often, or sometimes need your help? We make room for that. Have a bad thing or a good thing happen to you? We make room for that, too.

Oh, and here’s what else you’ll get: Market salary, stock options you’ll help make worth a lot, the usual holidays, all‑you‑can‑eat vacation, 401K, health/dental/FSA, long‑term disability insurance, subsidized T‑passes, a great office smack‑dab in Boston’s Downtown Crossing, a tremendous amount of responsibility and autonomy, wicked awesome co‑workers, cupcakes (and many more goodies), and knowing that you helped get this rocket ship to the moon.