Amsterdam
Est. expiry Oct 2
Last seen Sep 28
Posted Aug 28 · 33 days ago
Open 33 days. This role usually stays open about 22 days
Site Reliability Engineer
At a glance
Site Reliability Engineer at Ookla, US remote; $90k-$100k salary.
Original job descriptionJob description
We are looking for a highly capable engineer to join our Platform and Site Reliability engineering team. You will be responsible for building, maintaining and operating the infrastructure platform on which all Ookla services are built. In this role, you will build, maintain, and support a massive-scale dynamic infrastructure that is relied on by hundreds of millions of users around the world. You will obsess over systems performance, scalability, reliability, observability, and security. Most importantly, you will help deliver critical application functionality and help make the internet experience better for our users to help us achieve our goal of better connectivity for all. We are committed to providing you a flexible work environment where individuality, fun, and talent are all valued equally. If you consider yourself innovative, adept at collaboration, and you care deeply about the work you do, we want to talk!
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Skills & Technologies
TerraformCloudFormationGitGithubChefAnsibleDockerKubernetesTypescriptGoPythonPHPRubyJavaJavaAWSSQL
How this salary compares
€6,573 - €7,303
26% below Mid-Level level roles
€7,500€10,743 median€12,895
Responsibilities
- Maintaining a distributed, global ecosystem of thousands of cloud instances, containerized workflows, serverless applications, Linux servers, and associated infrastructure supporting billions of requests daily.
- Maintaining transactional database infrastructure using MySQL, PostgreSQL, and managed services such as RDS/Aurora.
- Supporting the use of NoSQL data storage engines such as DynamoDb and MongoDB.
- Building and supporting data stream processing with Kinesis or Kafka.
- Supporting data engineering and big data toolchains such as Spark.
- Supporting production systems in a 24x7x365 environment, including on-call responsibilities.
- Providing architectural and operational support to software engineers in a wide variety of focus areas.
- Support software and data engineering teams and guiding operational best practices.
- Implementation and oversight of security programs including vulnerability remediation, patch management, IDS/IPS, penetration testing, and interfacing with our corporate InfoSec team.
- Supporting the development to production code deploy pipeline for a range of production applications.
- Providing the tooling and guidance for the software and data engineering team to implement our monitoring and observability best practices.
- Assisting development teams with troubleshooting.
Requirements
- 4+ Years Systems/Platform engineering experience
- Experience building globally-distributed systems
- Strong understanding of security best practices
- Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, Cloudformation
- Branching and Merge based Source Code Configuration Management: Git, Github
- Configuration management systems such as Chef or Ansible
- Container-based architectures including Docker, Kubernetes
- Proficiency in one or more high level programming languages such as Typescript, Go, Python, PHP, Ruby, Java, etc.
- Experience with AWS and other Cloud infrastructure platforms
- Comfort writing SQL queries and analyzing query performance
- Comfortable learning and working with new technologies in an ever-changing environment
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Strong time management skills and a self-driven work ethic
Ookla · 6 open roles
Top locations (all time): Remote - Global · 20 · Helsinki, Finland · 7
| Location | Active listings |
|---|---|
| Remote - Global | 20 |
| Helsinki, Finland | 7 |
| Role type | Active listings |
|---|---|
| Software Engineer | 6 |
| Sales Director | 5 |
| Customer Solutions Manager | 2 |
| Full Stack Developer | 2 |
| Data Architect | 2 |
| Frontend Developer | 1 |
| Enterprise Sales Director | 1 |
| Enterprise Account Manager | 1 |
| Android Developer | 1 |
| Product Marketing Specialist | 1 |
| Channel Marketing Manager | 1 |
| Architect | 1 |
| Social Media Specialist | 1 |
| Customer Solution Manager | 1 |
| Channel Account Manager | 1 |
| Role level | Active listings |
|---|---|
| Mid-Level | 11 |
| Director | 6 |
| Manager | 6 |
| Senior | 4 |
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