Site Reliability Engineer (Mid-Senior)

Oxylabs; United States; On-site; USD 46,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private health insurance

Psychotherapy

On-site well-being consultants

24/7 gym access

Wellness app

40 internal learning options

External conferences

Mentorship

Knowledge sharing

Team events

Overseas workation

Quarterly team-building budgets

Vacation days bonus

Life-moment days off

Barista coffee

Tools for work

Job summary

Oxylabs in the United States is seeking a senior DevOps engineer to join a 500-person team building cutting-edge proxy and data-scraping platforms. You will maintain global infrastructure handling tens of PB-scale traffic, ensure availability of Kubernetes clusters, and drive architecture and performance optimization.

You’ll automate everything, collaborate with PMs and developers, and explore bleeding-edge tech daily.

Qualifications

• Strong Linux skills, including troubleshooting and programming.
• Familiar with Microservices, Kafka, Nginx, MySQL, Valkey, HAProxy, Prometheus.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes/Helm/ArgoCD.
• Hands-on experience with automation and server provisioning tools (Ansible and OpenTofu).
• Excellent proactive ownership and responsibility skills.

Responsibilities

• Be a part of a team which maintains hundreds of servers around the globe.
• Maintain multiple Kubernetes clusters and ensure availability.
• Work on infrastructure architecture, capacity planning, and performance optimization.
• Be responsible for managing various databases – SQL, NoSQL, etc.
• Upgrade systems with new releases and updates.
• Automate everything or as many things as possible.
• Work together with PMs and the development team to find the best technological solutions.
• New ideas & projects are always welcome!

Skills

Linux

Microservices

Kafka

Nginx

MySQL

Valkey

HAProxy

Prometheus

Kubernetes

Helm

ArgoCD

Ansible

OpenTofu

Ownership

Tools

Kubernetes

Helm

ArgoCD

Ansible

OpenTofu

Job description

We’re a team of 500 professionals who develop cutting-edge proxy and web data scraping solutions for thousands of the world’s best known businesses, including Fortune 500 companies.

What’s in store for you:

You’ll be solving complex challenges and maintaining our own infrastructure with 60PB monthly data traffic. Here are its scale and maturity in numbers:

• 6PB Ceph storage
• 60PB monthly data traffic through our systems
• 300k service requests/sec processed
• 500k Kafka messages/sec streamed

The team waiting for you

If you thrive on cutting-edge tech and massive scale, this is the place for you. We keep our infrastructure clean of outdated tools and give you the full autonomy to choose your own stack. Here, you will constantly learn by experimenting with bleeding-edge technologies and integrating them into daily use. You will face exciting engineering challenges every day, working on high-load systems that process more than 60k API requests per second and over 500k messages per second through message brokers.

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In this role, you’ll:

• Be a part of a team which maintains hundreds of servers around the globe.
• Maintain multiple Kubernetes clusters and ensure availability.
• Work on infrastructure architecture, capacity planning, and performance optimization.
• Be responsible for managing various databases – SQL, NoSQL, etc.
• Upgrade systems with new releases and updates.
• Automate everything or as many things as possible.
• Work together with PMs and the development team to find the best technological solutions.
• New ideas & projects are always welcome!

Your skills & experience:

• Strong Linux skills, including troubleshooting and programming.
• That you are familiar with some of these technologies: Microservices, Kafka, Nginx, MySQL, Valkey, HAProxy, Prometheus.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes/Helm/ArgoCD.
• Hands-on experience with automation and servers provisioning tools (preferably Ansible and OpenTofu).
• Excellent proactive, responsibility and ownership skills.

Nice to have:

• Experience with big databases (SQL and NoSQL).
• Experience with critical web systems (you know what HA actually means).
• Experience with continuous integration and continuous delivery/continuous deployment (Gitlab CI/CD).
• Experience with cloud providers (AWS, GCP, etc.).
• That you have a clue or two about how network technologies work (DNS, IPv4, IPv6, BGP, routing, bridging, etc.).

Salary & Benefits

• Gross salary:3600 – 7400 EUR/month. Keep in mind that we are open to discussing a different salary based on your skills and experience.
• Growth & Learning:40 internal learning options, external conferences, mentorship, and year-round knowledge-sharing.
• Health & Well-being:Private health insurance, psychotherapy, on-site well-being consultants, 24/7 gym access, and a wellness app.
• Celebration & Community:Team events, an overseas workation, quarterly team-building budgets, and plenty of ways to mark milestones together.

Plus bonus vacation days, paid life-moment days off, barista coffee, and all the tools you need. See the full list of benefits here: https://career.oxylabs.io/blog/our-work-benefits/.

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