Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Platform

Kentik is the network intelligence platform for modern infrastructure teams, aiming to simplify complex network operations. They are seeking a Staff Site Reliability Engineer to enhance their infrastructure, focusing on building self-service components, improving service reliability, and mentoring junior team members.

Responsibilities:

• Build self-service, declarative and API-driven infrastructure components in go, nodejs
• Contribute to our internal deployment tooling (mostly python CLI tools) and service orchestration platform based on Envoy, Nomad and other Hashicorp components
• Help formulate and execute our strategy for datastores such as postgres, kafka, redis (reliability, performance, overhead, capacity planning, …)
• Improve the reliability of our services, with code and testing improvements as well as internal advocacy and education
• Mentoring of junior team members
• Create and update technical documentation for infrastructure
• Be on the on-call escalation path for services owned by the team

Requirements:

• 8+ years of relevant experience
• Passion for building and providing amazing tools and platforms to other engineers
• Strong coding skills in Go or Python (alternatively: server-side javascript, ruby, java …)
• Significant experience with data ecosystems and tools, cloud or on-prem
• An SRE mindset and the intent to build reliable, easy to operate systems
• Familiarity with Temporal (or similar workflow engines) for managing workflow execution and durable execution experience
• Experience with Linux bare-metal hosts managed with puppet