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Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Kafka SME)

Posted 3 Days Ago
Remote
Hiring Remotely in USA
Senior level
Remote
Hiring Remotely in USA
Senior level
Seeking a skilled Site Reliability Engineer to optimize Kafka infrastructure, enhance monitoring, improve CI/CD pipelines, and support product teams with infrastructure and libraries.
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Do you have a software engineering background, but love working on infrastructure? We are looking for a skilled Site Reliability Engineer to join our ambitious team working on core platform solutions which are building blocks used by other product teams. That includes setting up and managing most of the technologies used to deliver a great betting product to our customers, working with our product teams to help them adopt and use common infrastructure and libraries, while collaborating with our system operations and IT team which is responsible for maintaining underlying virtual hardware and networking.

As a Site Reliability Engineer, you will be in a position to directly influence the work of multiple engineering product teams across dozens of microservices that process hundreds of thousands of betslips per day through their whole lifecycle!

We're looking for someone who:
  • Has a Computer Science or related degree;
  • Has experience in production-level software development, preferably in Java;
  • Is familiar with Kafka-based microservices architecture;
  • Has some knowledge of application-external infrastructure (e.g. databases, message queues);
  • Can evaluate system health through monitoring;
  • Is able to reason about different components of a large scale distributed system and their dependencies
Bonus points for:
  • Experience with cloud technologies such as AWS/Azure/Google Cloud, etc.;
  • Familiarity with DevOps methodologies;
  • Knowing your way around CI/CD processes, toolsets, and version control software like Jenkins, CircleCI, GitLab, GitHub;
  • Experience with Golang;
  • Experience with DBs such as PostgreSQL, Redis, MongoDB, CockroachDB;
What you'll be doing:
  • Optimizing and configuring Kafka infrastructure;
  • Setting up and improving monitoring and tracing infrastructure;
  • Scaling and optimizing logging infrastructure;
  • Improving CI/CD pipelines;
  • Implementing new libraries and driving their usage adoption among product teams;
  • Prototyping new technologies or architectures.

Top Skills

AWS
Azure
CircleCI
Cockroachdb
Git
Gitlab
Go
GCP
Java
Jenkins
Kafka
MongoDB
Postgres
Redis

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