Avalara - Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Job description : What You'll Do : As a Reliability Engineer, you will be part of a team responsible for the design, architecture, and operations of our next generation cross platform and multi cloud platform as a service. Our focus is to tap into the power of software engineering for solving technical and organizational problems that concern infrastructure. This might be a good fit for you, if : - writing clean, readable, testable, and performant code gives you joy, - translating unknowns into knowns excites you, - reading a distributed systems paper is your thing, - once, twice, automate resonates with you - releases equals progress to you Some broad areas of work are : - Streamlining Kubernetes operations across multiple cloud providers. - Mature the organizations tooling to standardize deploy practices and move towards a globally distributed infrastructure. - Tools and education that will help teams migrate from their existing container ecosystem to Kubernetes. - Conduct workshops to evangelize and educate about the infrastructure platform. - Proactively work with other SRE teams within the org to identify potential integration areas that are a source of friction and eliminate them. Here's how a typical week looks like : You will be spending your time in no particular order or ratio on the following : - Managing/Administering kubernetes related changes across multiple cloud providers. - Building tools for the cloud infrastructure platform using Golang, Python, or Terraform to automate away things. - Onboarding feature development teams. - Troubleshoot and support the platform You have a background in : - Networking : A good understanding of the OSI model, TCP/IP, and DNS; particularly as it relates to cloud environments. - Linux Fundamentals : Solid experience with the administration, security hardening, and performance tuning of one or more distributions of Linux. - Troubleshooting : A passion for tracking down technical root causes of distributed systems, and software. - Observability : Experience with developing service level indicators and objectives, instrumenting software, and building alerts. - Software Engineering : An understanding of software engineering fundamentals with experience developing software with a team of engineers. Strong experience in the practice of testing. - Automation : A strong desire to automate all of the things and eliminate toil. - Containers : A solid understanding of the underpinnings of container technology such as cgroups and namespaces. - Container Orchestration Systems : Experience with the operations, administration, and development of orchestration systems such as Kubernetes, ECS, Mesos, Nomad. - Infrastructure-as-Code : Experience with deploying and maintaining infrastructure as code with tools such as Terraform, Pulumi. - Technical Writing : Most of the services we develop are greenfield, and you will need to build documentation and diagrams for other engineering teams. - Customer Satisfaction : Keen eye for customer satisfaction (our customers are other engineering teams and Avalara customers). - Passion for Learning : Interest in the broader technology space with a constant desire to expand your understanding. - Adaptability : Experience working on a variety of projects. In short, we want people with T-shaped skills. You stand out from the crowd if you have : - Kubernetes : Experience with the operations and administration of Kubernetes - Go : Experience developing non trivial software with Go - Distributed Computing : Experience architecting, developing, and deploying distributed services across regions and clouds. - Technical Writing : writing technical documents that people love and adore. - Open Source : Build side-projects or contribute to other open-source projects. What You'll Need to be Successful : Qualifications : - Minimum of 8 years experience in a SaaS environment - Ability to work independently on projects while supporting a team - Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or engineering equivalent - Ability to participate in an on-call rotation (ref:hirist.tech)

Location: pune, IN

Posted Date: 11/23/2024