Site Reliability Engineer III, Aviation

Role Overview

• Responsible for designing and building systems, tooling, and processes to provide an extensible, scalable, and observable platform.
• Empower development teams to own and manage their full application stack, thus minimizing bottlenecks and optimizing development velocity without compromising on reliability.
• Onboarding and making a first-day push to infrastructure using Terraform.
• Meet with the software engineering teams and learn the Aerodome Platform codebase.
• Review and improve coverage of observability within the Aerodome platform through metrics/logs/traces/profiling.
• Create or improve existing Helm charts to automate and structure.
• Improve automation of the Aviation infrastructure and participate in security reviews and remediations.

Requirements

• Experience in an SRE role with an understanding of monitoring, troubleshooting, and disaster recovery
• Extensive experience in writing production-quality code
• Proficiency with infrastructure as code and/or configuration management (we use Terraform)
• Experience with managing monitoring dashboards using tools like Grafana and Prometheus to create actionable alerts
• Ability to ensure the system is running and in line with internal SLIs and SLOs
• Experience refining CI/CD processes to ensure new code is pushed to production in a reliable and efficient manner
• Ability to collaborate on creating a robust monitoring platform for our services and their underlying infrastructure, aiming to alert on symptoms and not outages
• Familiarity with best practices when creating and managing AWS resources (e.g. security groups, VPCs)

Tech Stack

• AWS
• Grafana
• Prometheus
• Terraform

Benefits

• Flexible PTO: We seriously mean it, plus 11 company holidays.
• Fully-paid health benefits plan for employees: including Medical, Dental, and Vision and an HSA match.
• Family Leave: All employees receive 12 weeks of 100% paid parental leave. Birthing parents are eligible for an additional 6-8 weeks of physical recovery time.
• Fertility & Family Benefits: We have partnered with Maven, a complete digital health benefit for starting and raising a family. Flock will provide a $50,000-lifetime maximum benefit related to eligible adoption, surrogacy, or fertility expenses.
• Spring Health: Spring Health offers a variety of mental health benefits, including therapy, coaching, medication management, and digital tools, all tailored to each individual's needs.
• Caregiver Support: We have partnered with Cariloop to provide our employees with caregiver support
• Carta Tax Advisor: Employees receive 1:1 sessions with Equity Tax Advisors who can address individual grants, model tax scenarios, and answer general questions.
• ERGs: We want all employees to thrive and feel like they belong at Flock. We offer three ERGs today
• Women of Flock, Flock Proud, and Melanin Motion. If you are interested in talking to a representative from one of these, please let your recruiter know.
• WFH Stipend: $150 per month to cover the costs of working from home.
• Productivity Stipend: $300 per year to use on Audible, Calm, Masterclass, Duolingo, Grammarly and so much more.
• Home Office Stipend: A one-time $750 to help you create your dream office.