Senior Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering

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About the Site Reliability Engineering Team

Thumbtacks Site Reliability Engineering team focuses on creating and maintaining a reliable secure and scalable platform vital for a seamless user experience. As a key contributor you will design and support resilient systems prioritizing high performance availability and throughput with a focus on minimizing service disruptions downtime and latency. SRE impacts Thumbtacks ecosystem across the entire stack from linux systems to applications that drive the customer experience. Our work is high leverage impacting how Engineering Applied Science and many other teams deliver run and observe systems.

The challenge

The Site Reliability team is responsible for a broad set of technologies and systems with expectations to collaborate across the business. We are expected to develop and enhance existing capabilities while ensuring scalability reliability and resiliency of infrastructure and software. Youll work with engineering teams ranging from product development developer experience and backend infrastructure to collaboratively build Thumbtacks ecosystem of platform services that have the right impact at the right time. Thumbtack values its cross functional collaborative culture and youd be positioned to contribute to the future direction and success of the engineering platform that serves as the engine of our applications.

What youll do

• Design create and maintain software and systems to improve the availability scalability and efficiency of Thumbtacks services

• Set the architectural direction of infrastructure and platform services while supporting the engineering organization

• Design and implement tools and processes used for deployment change service and infrastructure management

• Troubleshoot and debug critical systems throughout the SDLC

• Contribute to the evolution and performance of capabilities we provide to engineering as a platform organization

• Capacity planning and demand forecasting anticipating performance bottlenecks

• Participate in rotating on-call duties

In order to be successful you must bring

• Extensive fluency in AWS and Linux

• Ability to effectively read write and debug code in programming languages like but not limited to: Python Go PHP Javascript

• Expertise in designing analyzing and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems across web technologies like: DNS TLS HTTP/S TCP/IP

• Ability to decompose complex problems while understanding the tradeoffs necessary to deliver impact

• 5 years of experience managing infrastructure and systems

• Demonstrable knowledge of instrumenting operating and observing a distributed system of microservices in a production cloud environment

• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively to cross functional partners of various technical levels

• Passion for reducing toil and improving developer experience

Expected salary ranges

• For candidates living in Ontario and British Columbia the expected salary range for the role is currently $180200.00 - $233200.00

Actual offered salaries will vary and will be based on various factors such as calibrated job level qualifications skills competencies and proficiency for the role

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Actual offered salaries will vary and will be based on various factors such as calibrated job level qualifications skills competencies and proficiency for the role.

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Required Experience:

Senior IC

Employment Type : Full-Time
Department / Functional Area: Engineering
Experience: years
Vacancy: 1
Monthly Salary Salary: 180200 - 233200