Software Engineer - SRE

About The Role:

We are looking for a Software Engineer - SRE to join our engineering infrastructure team. This team is responsible for developing and maintaining the infrastructure and systems that support the availability, reliability, scalability and performance of our software applications and tools.  The team works closely with development and infrastructure teams to identify and resolve issues in our systems, increase reliability, measure reliability indicators, implement automation and optimize performance.

Our AWS cloud infrastructure and developer tools allow engineers to quickly develop & release solutions that are secure, reliable, scalable, and cost-efficient. Our responsibilities include:

• Providing standard architectures that are reliable, scalable, and secure
• Providing robust infrastructure abstractions
• Providing guidance on application development, deployment, reliability, scalability, and security
• Hosting training sessions to increase engineers' impact & mastery

Our Infrastructure department has three teams that work closely to enable other engineering teams to build software as efficiently as possible:

1. Infra & Tools: develop our infrastructure platform and development tools
2. Scraping platform: Maintain infrastructure, support analysts and develop any new features if needed
3. SRE (new): support engineering teams in building and operating systems sustainably with high reliability and availability

As a Software Engineer II - SRE You Will:

• Work together with SRE Lead and other team members to measure reliability of systems in the cloud using SLIs (Service Level Indicators) and SLOs (Service Level Objectives)
• Leverage Python and AWS services (such as AWS CloudFormation or AWS CDK) to automate the provisioning and management of infrastructure resources.
• Implement robust monitoring solutions to track the health, performance and availability of existing systems using tools like Datadog and AWS CloudWatch.
• Get involved in maintenance activities for various cloud resources and keep track of them
• Help improving the CI/CD pipeline using tools like GitHub, CircleCI and python scripts
• Collaborate with other Engineering teams and act as an embedded SRE to help them gain reliability objectives for their systems
• Contribute to our cloud infrastructure platform and developer tools

You Are Likely To Succeed If:

• You have 2-3+ years of experience in software engineering
• You have 1+ years of experience with SRE/DevOps discipline
• Good knowledge and experience with AWS services, including CloudFormation, EC2, RDS, S3, SQS, VPC, IAM, etc.
• Proficiency in Python Programming and scripting
• Familiarity with containerization technologies such as Docker and container orchestration platforms like ECS.
• Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.
• Excellent communication and collaboration abilities to work effectively in a team environment.

What We Offer:

Our compensation package includes comprehensive benefits, perks, and a competitive salary:

• We care about your personal life and we mean it. We offer flexible work hours, flexible vacation, a generous 401K match, parental leave, team events, wellness budget, learning reimbursement, and more!
• Your growth at YipitData is determined by the impact that you are making, not by tenure, unnecessary facetime, or office politics. Everyone at YipitData is empowered to learn, self-improve, and master their skills in an environment focused on ownership, respect, and trust.
• The annual base salary for this position is anticipated to be $130K ~ $160K. The final offer may be determined by a number of factors, including, but not limited to, the applicant's experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal team benchmarks.
• The compensation package also includes equity.

This role may be performed fully remotely within the United States. Please note that our US headquarters are located in NYC. We also have office hubs in Austin, Miami, Denver, Mountain View, and Seattle. If the remote work is performed outside of these offices, income may be subject to New York State tax withholding.

We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer.

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