Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Zenni pioneered the online eyewear industry in 2003 with a mission to make prescription eyewear affordable and accessible to everyone. Based in Marin County, California, Zenni offers men, women, and children the freedom to express their personal style and individuality through high-quality prescription and protective eyewear curated with a sense for fashion and incredible selection. With over 50 million frames sold worldwide, a pair of Zenni’s is owned in every country across the globe. Zenni is proud to be the Official Eyewear Partner of the Boston Red Sox, Chicago Bulls and San Francisco 49ers. For more information, visit www.zenni.com or connect on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or Pinterest. 

Position Overview:

Zenni is looking for Senior Site Reliability Engineers to join our team to help build. optimize and scale the cloud infrastructure for our next-generation ecommerce platform. The SREs are responsible for the cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, deployment tools, security, monitoring and observability tools. Zenni Optical is a critical 24x7 ecommerce operation that handles millions of users per month so the primary responsibility of the SRE team is to make sure our platform is fast, efficient, reliable, secure and cost efficient.

You will be working closely with the architects and principal engineers at Zenni to develop and deploy secure, highly available and scalable web services. Our current transformation objective is to migrate from our current monolith J2EE tech stack running in data centers to a next-gen microservices architecture running in a cloud environment. This is a phenomenal role for someone who believes in building automation, driving simplification and crafting an impressive, five nines culture. The team is aggressively moving towards "Infrastructure as Code" model. We are looking for someone with an "automation" mindset.

A strong predictor for success will be evident in a candidate who:

• Excellent learning skills
• The spirit of getting things done with high velocity
• Ability to accept and offer constructive criticism

Responsibilities for a Software Developer will include:

• End to End Automation of system builds
• Ongoing scaling of our platform to support forecasted peak traffic
• “Infrastructure as code” standardization and improving automation of systems, processes, and services
• Modernization of the tech stack and migration to the cloud

What you’ll need to succeed:

• At least 5 years of production engineering experience
• Experience running services on at least one cloud platform (AWS, GCP, Azure) preferably in a docker/Kubernetes environment
• Experience with CI/CD tools – GitHub workflows, Jenkins, GCP Cloud Build, Harness, Argo CD.
• Experience with CDN systems like Akamai, GCP Cloud CDN, AWS CloudFront
• Hands-on experience automating infrastructure using Terraform or Ansible
• Ability to code in at least one programming language
• Good communication and collaboration skills
• Ability to adapt to changing priorities

Nice to Have

• Hands-on experience with GCP services – Cloud Run, Cloud Build, PubSub, GKE, Firestore, Cloud Armor, Cloud CDN will be a huge plus
• eCommerce experience

Benefits

• Your choice of PC or Mac hardware and accessories
• Excellent health benefits that the company pays for and a 401k with company match
• Annual employee eyeglasses stipend
• Great Work Life Balance
• Interesting projects with opportunities for growth and professional development in a financially stable, successful, growing Company
• #LI-EW

As of 01/01/2023, the expected salary range for this position is $150,000 to $175,000 USD annually. Actual pay within this range will be based upon several factors, including without limitation education, work experience, certifications, geographic pay differentials, market conditions, and other business and organizational needs. The Company anticipates that the reasonable expected salary for this position could change in the future and, therefore, the Company retains the right to change, modify, or revisit the salary range for the position for various reasons, including the Company’s business needs.