Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Remote)

Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Remote)

Overview:

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Weedmaps you will work cross-departmentally with your partners on the application, infrastructure and quality teams to enhance the performance, reliability, resilience and scalability of the web services that make up Weedmaps.com. We are a cloud native organization with 100% of our services in Docker running on Kubernetes in AWS’ public cloud. We also leverage observability, monitoring, CI/CD automation and custom tooling to push multiple production releases a day.

Your day to day focus will be leveraging your engineering skills to assist in the building out, monitoring, reducing developer toil, configuring CI workflows and improving our deployment pipelines. You will also be a knowledge reference for our development teams to ensure they are leveraging consistent tooling for metrics, logging, build, and deployment. You will work closely with the development and infrastructure teams to identify the essential service-specific metrics (beyond the golden metrics) that need to be monitored and work with application development teams to create libraries to allow services to easily instrument their services.

The impact you'll make:

• Collaborate with stakeholders to drive best practices for monitoring, CI/CD pipelines
• Troubleshoot deployment issues in our CI pipeline
• Advocate emphatically for the DevOPS culture here at Weedmaps
• Identify areas for automation and embrace the codification of all things
• Evangelize best practices around collaboration, reliability, security and performance to all partner teams
• Take ownership of the application configuration/scaling for given services to ensure that they are following the established practices of the organization
• Create and refine synthetic monitoring flows

What you've accomplished:

• Minimum 5 years of development experience at startup/mid-sized companies
• Proficiency in Python, Go, Node, Ruby or Elixir
• Knowledge of containerization, particularly Docker and Kubernetes
• Effective communication skills, a positive attitude, and ability to give and receive constructive feedback
• Professional experience with cloud native observability standard such as Open metrics, Open tracing and Open Census
• Expertise using/configuring modern CI/CD workflows
• Intimate understanding of SLIs, SLOs and SLAs from the service level to the business level
• Intimate understanding of the golden metrics, how to monitor and alert on them
• Deep understanding of the GitHub branching strategy
• Experience troubleshooting containerized applications
• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code, automation and configuration

Bonus Points:

• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure concepts (AWS, GCS)
• Experience with Hashicorp tools such as Terraform, Consul, Vault
• Computer science or other engineering background
• Experience with CI tools such as CircleCi, Jenkins, Travis, Drone, Semaphore, etc.
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as with tools like Prometheus, CloudWatch, DataDog, and Grafana

The base pay range for this position is $153,000.00 - $175,000.00 per year

2023 Benefits for Full Time, Regular Employees:

• Medical, Dental & Vision benefits (effective Day 1):
• Employee - employer paid premium 100%
• For plans that offer coverage to your dependents, you pay a small contribution
• Basic Life & AD&D - employer paid 1x salary up to $250,000
• 401(k) Retirement Plan (with employer contribution)
• Generous PTO, Paid Sick Leave, and Company Holidays
• Supplemental, voluntary benefits
• Family planning/fertility -  including up to $10,000 towards cash-pay services
• Student Loan Repayment/529 Education Savings - including a company contribution of up to $1,000/year
• FSA (Medical, Dependent, Transit and Parking)
• Voluntary Life Insurance
• Critical Illness Insurance
• Accident Insurance
• Short- and long-term disability Insurance
• Pet Insurance 
• Company-paid identity theft protection
• Legal services platform
• Paid parental leave

Why Weedmaps?

• You get an opportunity to shape the future of the cannabis industry
• You get to play a meaningful role that impacts the wellbeing of others
• Casual work environment, no fancy clothes required, but you are free to dress to the nines!
• Generous PTO and company holidays
• Numerous opportunities to learn and grow your professional skills
• End