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Senior Site Reliability Engineer - USA, Remote - $120,000 - $130,000

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

USA, Remote

$120,000 - $130,000

 

Job Description

Location

This is a remote position. Open to candidates located in OR, WA, CA, CO, ID, AZ, TX, IL

 

Who We Are

We are the largest crowd-sourced, community-driven database of recorded music information in the world. Every day, millions of people use our Marketplace to connect, learn about music, and buy and sell vinyl records, CDs, and cassettes. We continues to grow, we are looking for bright, dedicated, creative, and highly motivated people to help us realize our mission to serve the music fan in everyone. We are relatively small, so individual contributions can have a large impact. High value is placed on quality, critical thinking, and continuous improvement. Our teams work collaboratively but are distributed geographically and open-source tools are important to who we are and how we work. We value the experiences and skills each team member contributes to helping us serve our music community.

 

Who We’re Looking For

The Senior Site Reliability Engineer has wide latitude to automate and improve service reliability.  The role is also responsible for diagnosing, investigating, and resolving service issues.  The role will help teams build and adopt Service Level Objectives (SLOs) in order to broadly improve service reliability at the company.  They will also have a hand in supporting and improving both our technical infrastructure and the platform services built on it..

 

What You’ll Accomplish

·        Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

·        Maintain organization cloud presence in AWS

·        Automate and deploy infrastructure configurations using Infrastructure as Code (IAC)

·        Implement monitoring, as well as metric and log collection

·        Assist other teams with capacity planning and infrastructure budgeting

·        Participate in evening/night and weekend on-call rotation

·        Continuously improve infrastructure by automating away repetitive tasks and toil

·        Build out functionality of the Platform used by other engineering teams

·        Debug issues in application code and related services.

·        Demonstrate a consistent commitment to core values and operating principles.

·        Work with your team on planning and completing department goals that align with overall business objectives.

·        Be an effective communicator by listening carefully, asking questions, and being transparent, timely, and diplomatic across all levels of the organization.

·        Stay informed on what is happening within the business and help others understand business decisions and the company direction by positively representing the company view.

·        Provide technical knowledge, coach and mentor others in the department and company.

·        Stay informed on new technologies or processes within your specialization and implement them when necessary.

·        Use analytic skills to communicate and drive decisions for your team based on available data.

·        In partnership with your manager, start to plan, evaluate, and improve the efficiency of your department to enhance speed, quality, efficiency, and output.

 

What You’ll Contribute

·        5+ years software development experience

·        3 years of experience with AWS

·        3 years of experience using Terraform to manage AWS resources

·        2 years of experience with Kubernetes (EKS preferred)

·        Experience with Change Data Capture and Kafka

·        2 years of experience with a scripting language (e.g., Python, Bash)

·        1 year of experience with cloud network configuration

·        1 year of experience configuring CI/CD pipelines

·        1 year of experience supporting 24/7 web applications

·        Experience configuring monitoring and alerting

·        Experience with Kubernetes configuration tools like Helm and Kustomize

·        Excellent written communication skills.

 

Great to have:

·        Experience with systems programming languages like Rust or Go

·        Experience implementing observability through code instrumentation

·        Experience with GitOps (e.g., Argo CD, Flux)

·        Experience migrating applications from an on-prem environment to the cloud

·        Experience with Change Data Capture and Kafka

·        Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field

·        Bachelor's degree from four-year college or university, or equivalent technical work experience

Senior Back End Engineer – Python - USA, Remote - $123,000 - $127,000

Senior Back End Engineer – Python

USA, Remote

$123,000 - $127,000

Job Description

Does music move you the same as building technology? Are you looking to work on something to believe in? Our Engineering team is looking for you here at our company.

 

Location

This is a remote position. Open to candidates located in OR, WA, CA, CO, ID, AZ, TX, IL

 

Who We Are

We are the largest crowd-sourced, community-driven database of recorded music information in the world. Every day, millions of people use our Marketplace to connect, learn about music, and buy and sell vinyl records, CDs, and cassettes. As we continues to grow, we are looking for bright, dedicated, creative, and highly motivated people to help us realize our mission to serve the music fan in everyone. We are relatively small, so individual contributions can have a large impact. High value is placed on quality, critical thinking, and continuous improvement. Our teams work collaboratively but are distributed geographically and open-source tools are important to who we are and how we work. We value the experiences and skills each team member contributes to helping us serve our music community.

 

Who We’re Looking For

The Senior Backend Engineer, Catalog acts as a senior member of a group of passionate engineers to help us create software and services for our catalog.  As a technical subject matter expert, this role is instrumental in driving our catalog technology vision forward and evangelizing development and testing practices that drives the catalog transformation and growth strategies. Requires great ability to multi-task across projects as well as to adapt to different areas of the code where previous knowledge, skills, and experience may not exist. This role provides strong technical leadership and mentorship to develop the capabilities of other team members. This role motivates and fosters collaboration across the teams.

 

What You’ll Accomplish

·        Acts in a senior-level capacity for the technical development and delivery of features within the catalog, coordinating with Product, UX, QA, and other teams.

·        Provides senior-level technical expertise in evaluation, conceptualization, design and development of features.

·        Develops and maintains software following an Agile/Scrum methodology.

·        Participates at a senior level in the breakdown of stories into technical design and implementation tasks and participates in sprint planning and other scrum methodologies, including estimation and prioritization of development efforts.

·        Drives for continuous improvement in performance, scalability, extensibility, reliability, and usability of features.

·        Works with privacy and security teams to ensure proper architecture and maintenance.

·        Follows accessibility practices in the development of software.

·        Communicates effectively with tech and non-tech members, and is capable of delivering feedback to peers and their lead.

·        Coaches and mentors other engineers while still maintaining deep individual and team-level contributions.

·        Exemplifies how to write and review code and act on data feedback to decide what to build next.

·        Monitors and supports health of features in production.

·        Develops a working knowledge of tertiary domains.

 

What You’ll Contribute

·        Bachelor's degree (BA/BS) from four-year college or university, or equivalent work experience.

·        5+ years related work experience.

·        Preferred technical skills - required when noted. We will consider candidates who have some or all of these skills.:

·        Python expertise (required)

·        Messaging technologies: Kafka strongly preferred

·        Data: MySQL, AWS RDS

·        Service-oriented architecture: GraphQL, REST

·        Containerization and Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes, Argo CD

·        AWS technologies: EKS / EC2, RDS

·        Search: ElasticSearch

·        Observability: DataDog, Sentry, New Relic, other

·        Other tools: GitHub, JIRA, Slack, Confluence

·        Capable of delivering small-to-medium features all the way through from technical design to launch with no guidance.

·        Thoroughly understands the business vision, mission, and strategy and how their code supports and affects business outcomes.

·        Possess advanced knowledge in your specialization to be able to guide and mentor team members.

·        Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from stakeholders

·        Working knowledge of taking a large complex project, breaking it down into sub-tasks, and completing those tasks as required.

·        Shows initiative and seeks evidence in data to support ideas

 

What We Provide

·        Competitive compensation: salary, plus performance-related bonus program

·        401(k) with employer match

·        100% company-paid medical and dental insurance benefits for you and your dependents

·        4 weeks paid vacation, increasing based on tenure

·        18 weeks paid leave for birth moms

·        8 weeks paid parental leave, including for adoption

·        Monthly wellness allowance

·        Annual professional and personal development allowance

·        Work from home office set-up and expense allowances

·        Flexible work location opportunities

·        Employer matching toward charitable contributions

 

What We Believe In

Our companies’ mission is to serve the music fan in everyone. We represent a diverse and inclusive community, and we are committed to serving our community with innovative and creative solutions. We know that innovation happens best when varying perspectives are embraced and integrated. Our global team reflects our global community. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer.