Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Observability

• Build and orchestrate Modern OTEL-based Observability Platform

• Support multiple telemetry types, like metrics, logs and traces.

• Define and support modern governance in observability and problems at scale.

• Ensure reliability, security, and performance exceed our defined SLAs

• Work with engineers from across the company to help troubleshoot issues, deploy new products and services, and increase velocity while decreasing cognitive load

• Lead the design and deployment of monitoring/observability services to detect and alert the team of needed action.

• Ingest, aggregate, transform, and utilize data from a multitude of sources in our real time data pipeline.

• Oversee the availability, performance, and supportability of our observability infrastructure.

• Create processes around alert response operations and support the team to ensure the reliable delivery of oracle data.

• Make recommendations to ensure sufficient metrics are collected to create alerts with every new feature release.

• Champion reliability and security by taking the time to do your work right the first time

• 7+ years of relevant professional experience. You probably have worked on a devops, infrastructure, SRE, and/or platform team before

• Ability to develop software outside of the scope of typical infrastructure requirements and configurations

• Experience programming in C, C++, Java, Python, Go, Perl, or Ruby

• Expert knowledge in all aspects of designing, developing, and managing large real-time systems

• Experience with monitoring and logging. You know how to export metrics using Prometheus, have built a Grafana dashboard or two, and have experience with a centralized logging solution like an ELK Stack, Splunk or Grafana Stack.

• Experience with distributed systems and container orchestration. You have maintained or even built Kubernetes clusters before and feel comfortable deploying completely new services on them

• Strong communication skills. You can give and receive constructive feedback, and you do not shy away from planning meetings and code reviews

• Excitement for blockchain, Web 3.0, and similar decentralized technologies.

• Experience running any infrastructure in the blockchain/web3 space

• Ability to scale systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation, and evolve systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity

• Experience working remotely in a distributed team

• A strong desire to grow and challenge yourself. We would expect you to constantly find ways to improve and automate services to reduce toil

• AWS; Terraform/Terragrunt; Kubernetes, Calico and ArgoCD; Prometheus and Grafana; GitHub Actions; Packer

• We expect you to be comfortable with most of those tools and very proficient in several of them.

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