Sr. Site Reliability Engineer

AppFolio; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 138,000 - 173,000; Full time

Job summary

AppFolio is seeking a Sr. Site Reliability Engineer to enhance the reliability and quality of their services. You will build infrastructure, improve observability, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to support the company’s success. Ideal candidates possess solid coding skills and extensive experience in infrastructure management.

Qualifications

• Experience with diagnosing performance issues across all layers.
• 5+ years industry experience or equivalent.
• Strong coding skills in Go, Ruby, or Python are a plus.

Responsibilities

• Building common infrastructure to improve reliability.
• Collaborating with engineering teams to enhance service quality.
• Ensuring monitoring, capacity planning, and incident response.

Skills

Service Level Indicators

Performance Monitoring

Coding

Infrastructure as Code

Container Orchestration

Cloud Computing

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

Amazon Web Services

Job description

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What You’ll Do

You will be helping them to build common infrastructure as well as help improve the reliability, quality of services and overall observability patterns. Along with your team, you’ll ensure all aspects of our shared product spaces have a plan to address any opportunities for exception reporting, capacity planning, monitoring and alerting, backups, runbooks, configuration management, DDoS protection, infrastructure as code, and disaster recovery. You’ll collaborate or embed with engineering teams, helping them to improve the reliability and quality of their services and infrastructure as we look to support the business success of AppFolio.

Description

What You’ll Do

You will be helping them to build common infrastructure as well as help improve the reliability, quality of services and overall observability patterns. Along with your team, you’ll ensure all aspects of our shared product spaces have a plan to address any opportunities for exception reporting, capacity planning, monitoring and alerting, backups, runbooks, configuration management, DDoS protection, infrastructure as code, and disaster recovery. You’ll collaborate or embed with engineering teams, helping them to improve the reliability and quality of their services and infrastructure as we look to support the business success of AppFolio.

You’ll be a member of the team that provides reliable, scalable infrastructure for key components of the AppFolio Real Estate Platform. You’ll help build the future of reliable, critical services, and support rapid and sustainable growth of new features.

What We’re Looking For

This is a great opportunity for someone who enjoys supporting teams, helping them become more self-sufficient, and building reliable, simple systems. This position will require on-call responsibilities. Lastly, you have strong communication skills and enjoy working on a team that values openness, integrity, ownership, and attention to detail.

Must-Haves

• Experience developing Service Level Indicators and Service Level Objectives for the above systems.
• Proven ability to diagnose and monitor performance and reliability issues across the stack: relational databases, web servers, networking, OS, containers, load balancers, etc. You’ll chase down performance problems and uncover root causes of system failures.
• Strong coding background: you’ve written code to perform critical tasks or in production. The exact language doesn’t matter, though we give bonus points for Go, Ruby, or Python.
• Expertise with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi, etc.)
• Expertise with Kubernetes or other container orchestration tooling and technology patterns
• Experience with Amazon Web Services (commonly EKS, RDS Aurora, Lambda, S3, EBS, Route53, DynamoDB, and VPCs)
• Bachelor’s degree and at least 5 years industry experience, or equivalent work experience
  
  
  

Ways To Stand Out From The Crowd

• Mastery experience with some areas of our tech like Ruby on Rails, Kubernetes, MySQL, Linux, container orchestration, Networking, etc.
• Experience building, testing and maintaining infrastructure templates/solutions in a medium to large size platform engineering company.
  
  
  

Compensation & Benefits

The base salary that we reasonably expect to pay for this role is $138,400-$173,000

The actual base salary for this role will be determined by a variety of factors, including but not limited to the candidate’s skills, education, experience, etc.

Please note that base pay is one important aspect of a compelling Total Rewards package. The base pay range indicated here does not include any additional benefits or bonuses/commissions that you may be eligible for based on your role and/or employment type.

Regular full-time employees are eligible for benefits - see here.

About AppFolio

AppFolio is the technology leader powering the future of the real estate industry. Our innovative platform and trusted partnership enable our customers to connect communities, increase operational efficiency, and grow their business. For more information about AppFolio, visit appfolio.com.

Why AppFolio

Grow | We enable a culture of high performance, where delivering results is recognized by opportunities for growth and compelling total rewards. Our challenging and meaningful work drive the growth of our business, and ourselves.

Learn | We partner with you to realize your potential by investing in you from the start. We're cultivating a team of big thinkers through coaching and mentorship with our best-in-class leaders, and giving you the time and tools to develop your skills.

Impact | We are creating a world where living in, investing in, managing, and supporting communities feels magical and effortless, freeing people to thrive. We do this by innovating with purpose while cultivating a culture of impact. We learn as much from each other as we do our customers and our communities.

Connect | We excel at hybrid work by fostering an environment that feels flexible, personal and connected, no matter where we are. We create space to fuel innovation and collaboration, and we come together to celebrate, connect, and succeed.

Paddle as One.

Learn more at appfolio.com/company/careers

Statement of Equal Opportunity

At AppFolio, we value diversity in backgrounds and perspectives and depend on it to drive our innovative culture. That’s why we’re a proud Equal Opportunity Employer, and we believe that our products, our teams, and our business are stronger because of it. This means that no matter what race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identification, national origin, age, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, or veteran status, you’re always welcome at AppFolio.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Information Technology

• Industries

  Software Development

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