Title: Site Reliability Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering

Department: Platform Engineering

Reports To: Director, Platform Engineering

FLSA Status: Exempt

Location: US Remote

 

Job Summary

The Platform Engineering organization at Prove is looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to elevate our infrastructure. You will be responsible for supporting highly resilient environments through robust automation, infrastructure-as-code, and sophisticated observability. Collaboration with our software development colleagues is essential as we work to uphold the most rigorous benchmarks for system stability, throughput, and security.

 

Key Responsibilities

The Site Reliability Engineering teams at Prove are responsible for driving maximum uptime for existing and developing products. Qualified candidates will be well versed in the difference between methods and ownership of outcomes and be able to demonstrate and document their relevant experience. 

Optimize

• Improve new and existing systems by increasing reliability, performance, and scalability
• Automate routine operational tasks to reduce toil and improve efficiency
• Ensure infrastructure security compliance and implement least-privilege access controls
• Implement efficient infrastructure that balances rapid development and cost
• Embrace technological changes and development practices while maintaining reliability

Respond

• Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation
• Conduct thorough post-incident reviews and implement preventative measures
• Use observability data to identify system improvements

Run

• Implement infrastructure as code in a myriad of high compliance development, production, and other environments
• Scale developer experiences by being the standard bearer of an opinionated platform approach

 

Required Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in Site Reliability or Platform Engineering teams
• Deep understanding of cloud platforms,  particularly AWS
• Strong experience with Kubernetes and container orchestration
• Experience withTerraform and  infrastructure-as-code tools 
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with distributed systems and microservice architectures
• Experience working in a high compliance environment
• Experience with holistic monitoring and alerting for developing platforms
• Skilled proficiency in at least one programming language (Go, Python)

 

This position description should not be considered the final description of the position. The position description is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of duties and standards of the positions. It should be assumed that we would, to some extent, structure responsibilities in accordance with the successful candidate’s capabilities and changing business conditions. Incumbents will follow any other instructions, and perform any other related duties, as assigned by their supervisor.

The anticipated salary range for this role is 

Metro 2: $130,000 - 150,000

Metro 3: $120,000 - 135,000

Plus variable commission / company bonus. Offered salary will be determined by the applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills, geo-location and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data.