Key skills
PythonGoNode.jsRubyElixirDockerKubernetesCloud native observability standardsCI/CD workflowsService Level Indicators (SLIs)Service Level Objectives (SLOs)Service Level Agreements (SLAs)GitHub branching strategyTroubleshooting containerized applicationsInfrastructure as CodeAutomationconfigurationgivereceive constructive feedbackAWSTerraformJenkinsVaultConsulCircleCICloudWatchGCSPrometheusGrafanaDatadogGitHubCI/CDCommunicationCollaboration
About this role
Weedmaps is a global leader in the cannabis industry, dedicated to transparency, education, and community. As a Site Reliability Engineer, you will enhance the performance and reliability of Weedmaps.com, working with various teams to improve deployment pipelines and monitoring practices.
Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with stakeholders to drive best practices for monitoring, CI/CD pipelines
- Troubleshoot deployment issues in our CI pipeline
- Advocate emphatically for the DevOPS culture here at Weedmaps
- Identify areas for automation and embrace the codification of all things
- Evangelize best practices around collaboration, reliability, security and performance to all partner teams
- Take ownership of the application configuration/scaling for given services to ensure that they are following the established practices of the organization
- Create and refine synthetic monitoring flows
Requirements:
- Minimum 2 years of development experience at startup/mid-sized companies
- Proficiency in Python, Go, Node, Ruby or Elixir
- Knowledge of containerization, particularly Docker (Kubernetes is a plus)
- Effective communication skills, a positive attitude, and ability to give and receive constructive feedback
- Professional experience with cloud native observability standard such as Open metrics, Open tracing and Open Census
- Expertise using/configuring modern CI/CD workflows
- Intimate understanding of SLIs, SLOs and SLAs from the service level to the business level
- Intimate understanding of the golden metrics, how to monitor and alert on them
- Deep understanding of the GitHub branching strategy
- Experience troubleshooting containerized applications
- Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code, automation and configuration
- Familiarity with cloud infrastructure concepts (AWS, GCS)
- Experience with Hashicorp tools such as Terraform, Consul, Vault
- Computer science or other engineering background
- Experience with CI tools such as CircleCi, Jenkins, Travis, Drone, Semaphore, etc
- Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as with tools like Prometheus, CloudWatch, DataDog, and Grafana