Staff Site Reliability Engineer (Kubernetes Clusters)

From Fivetran’s founding until now, our mission has remained the same: to make access to data as simple and reliable as electricity. With Fivetran, customer data arrives in their warehouses, canonical and ready to query, with no engineering or maintenance required. We’re proud that more organizations continue to leverage our technology every day to become truly data-driven.

 

About the Role

 

Fivetran is looking for a high-performance, experienced engineer to be a part of a team of Site Reliability Engineers. You will be working closely with engineering teams, product managers, as well as support and sales engineers to build the future of the Fivetran Data Platform Reliability. 
 

As a member of the Site Reliability Engineering team, you will take ownership of the overall performance and reliability of Fivetran’s infrastructure, the robustness of the deployment pipeline, as well as timely and effective incident response and resolution. You will take responsibility for the growth and stability of Fivetran’s infrastructure, and be a key player driving effective incident response and overall issue avoidance.

 

This is a full-time, hybrid position based out of our Oakland Office. Our hybrid work model offers a blend of remote flexibility and in-person collaboration, including two days in the office each week to connect and build as a team.

 

Technologies You’ll Use

 

Kubernetes, PostgresSQL, ArgoCD, Terraform, Ansible, Python, Go, Java, AWS, GCp, Azure, Grafana, Buildkite, Temporal etc.

 

What You’ll Do

• Must have experience managing K8s clusters that are used in Production, and also have scaled them with clusters running 100s of nodes. Able to debug issues with deployments, understand kubectl commands to an expert level.
• Responsible for the ongoing reliability and robustness of Fivetran’s production infrastructure by monitoring availability, capacity, and throughput.

• Evolve systems by adding reliability into our product roadmap
• Coordinate the re-prioritize or fix critical bugs for support or sales requirements as needed
• Make recommendations to production infrastructure by interfacing with engineering to ensure 100% availability
• Ensure scalable artifacts deployment to all environments by automation scripts
• Constantly monitor infrastructure vulnerabilities and remedy them by working with the security team 

Skills We’re Looking For

• 5+  years of  experience working with SaaS products at scale  
• Must have experience managing K8s clusters that are used in Production, and also have scaled them with clusters running 100s of nodes. Able to debug issues with deployments, understand kubectl commands to an expert level.
• Must have experience in managed Kubernetes clusters (EKS, AKS and GKE)
• Experience in Cloud Platforms and related tooling: AWS, Azure, GCP, Terraform, Ansible, Buildkite, Pulumi and ArgoCD
• Expertise in Python/Shell scripting. Bonus if you have Java, GO, etc
• Experience with Linux operating systems' internals and administration 
• Experience with cloud networking like VPNs, Privatelinks, and Private Service connect (GCP)
• Experience with databases such as PostgreSQL

Bonus Skills​

 

• Java, GoLang Programming skills

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Oakland Pay Range$186,698.21—$233,372.76 USD

 

Perks and Benefits

• 100% employer-paid medical insurance*
• Generous paid time-off policy (PTO), plus paid sick time, inclusive parental leave policy, holidays, and volunteer days off
• RSU stock grants*
• Professional development and training opportunities