Lead Staff Systems Reliability Engineer

Responsibilities

• Lead a team to influence, manage, and plan work streams, systems, and data structures at scale
• Build and improve infrastructure automation for stateful systems at scale
• Own operations for Linux-based systems running Aerospike, Kafka, and MongoDB
• Serve as a point of contact for new use cases and participate in on-call rotation
• Benchmark and analyze next generation hardware offerings

Requirements

• Extensive experience with Linux operating systems
• Proven leadership experience and ability to mentor others
• Strong troubleshooting skills using scientific methods to identify CPU or IO bottlenecks
• Ability to think deeply about the 'why' behind technical objectives

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with physical on-prem hardware internals and management
• Experience with performance testing and tuning
• Knowledge of relational or NoSQL databases
• Proficiency with Ansible, PyInfra, or Chef
• Experience with Prometheus and Kubernetes
• Programming skills in Python, Ruby, Rust, Bash, Golang, or C#

About the Company

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