Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. AppFolio is a technology leader powering the future of the real estate industry. The Sr. Site Reliability Engineer - Observability will help build common infrastructure and improve the reliability and quality of services while ensuring observability patterns are in place.
Responsibilities
- You will be helping them to build common infrastructure as well as help improve the reliability, quality of services and overall observability patterns
- Along with your team, you’ll ensure all aspects of our shared product spaces have a plan to address any opportunities for exception reporting, capacity planning, monitoring and alerting, backups, runbooks, configuration management, DDoS protection, infrastructure as code, and disaster recovery
- You’ll collaborate or embed with engineering teams, helping them to improve the reliability and quality of their services and infrastructure as we look to support the business success of AppFolio
- You’ll be a member of the team that provides reliable, scalable observability and infrastructure for key components of the AppFolio Real Estate Platform
- You’ll help build the future of reliable, critical services, and support rapid and sustainable growth of new features
Skills
- Experience developing Service Level Indicators and Service Level Objectives for the above systems
- Proven ability to diagnose and monitor performance and reliability issues across the stack: relational databases, web servers, networking, OS, containers, load balancers, etc. You'll chase down performance problems and uncover root causes of system failures
- Strong coding background: you've written code to perform critical tasks or in production. The exact language doesn't matter, though we give bonus points for Go, Ruby, or Python
- Expertise with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi, etc.)
- Expertise with Kubernetes or other container orchestration tooling and technology patterns
- Experience with Amazon Web Services (commonly EKS, RDS Aurora, Lambda, S3, EBS, Route53, DynamoDB, and VPCs)
- Bachelor's degree and at least 5 years industry experience, or equivalent work experience
- Mastery experience with some areas of our tech like Ruby on Rails, Kubernetes, MySQL, Linux, container orchestration, Networking, etc
Benefits
- Regular full-time employees are eligible for benefits - [see here](https://www.appfolioinc.com/careers/life-at-appfolio).
- We enable a culture of high performance, where delivering results is recognized by opportunities for growth and compelling total rewards.
- We partner with you to realize your potential by investing in you from the start.
- We're cultivating a team of big thinkers through coaching and mentorship with our best-in-class leaders, and giving you the time and tools to develop your skills.
- We excel at hybrid work by fostering an environment that feels flexible, personal and connected, no matter where we are.
- We create space to fuel innovation and collaboration, and we come together to celebrate, connect, and succeed.
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