Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Expel is a cybersecurity company focused on stopping evil hackers so customers can focus on their business. The Principal Site Reliability Engineer will lead reliability, networking, and cloud infrastructure initiatives, contribute to infrastructure and application code, mentor service owners, and lead incident response and root cause analysis.
Responsibilities
- Lead project work to build and maintain platform features that cut across the Expel product’s reliability, networking, and cloud infrastructure
- Contribute by pushing IaC commits daily, with occasional opportunities to write and test application code in Python, Golang, and Javascript
- Mentor and motivate service owners on how to use the platform in order to deploy, measure, monitor, and operate their own services at scale
- Participate in a weekly support rotation that includes taking the on-call pager and providing nearly on-demand working-hours support to platform users
- Lead incident response, triage, and root cause analysis support
- Poke fun at our leadership team in creative ways
Skills
- A passion for learning and improving your work product
- Significant experience operating Kubernetes within highly distributed environments
- Experience running systems in GCP or AWS
- Exposure to monitoring and observability infrastructure and standard methodologies
- An understanding of infrastructure-as-code practices, tools, and patterns
- A customer-minded approach that enables the success of platform users as well as building trust across the organization
- A collaborative disposition that allows you to work optimally on and across teams
- Six years of systems experience either in operations or development
- This role is remote within the United States
- We're only hiring those authorized to work in the United States
- Some experience developing software in Linux environments, preferably with Python and/or Golang
Benefits
- An opportunity to grow and maintain reliability-focused platform features within a cloud native engineering platform using modern infrastructure and tooling (Kubernetes/GKE/EKS runtime, Hashicorp toolset, etc)
- Be included in a company focused on creating opportunities to do interesting work and creating space for employees to learn and grow
- An opportunity to contribute to a best-in-class product
- Bonus eligibility
- Equity
- Unlimited PTO (which we model and encourage)
- Work location flexibility
- Up to 24 weeks of parental leave
- Really excellent health benefits
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