Sr Site Reliability Engineer, Cloud

Kentik is the network intelligence platform for modern infrastructure teams. Unlike traditional monitoring and observability tools, we demystify complex network operations, enabling organizations to deliver applications and innovation at scale. Built by network experts to make critical insight accessible to every engineer, Kentik is the real-time source of truth that understands every network in context — from data center to cloud to the internet. This single platform unifies and correlates cloud, device, flow, synthetic data to turn telemetry into action. Market leaders like Akamai, Booking.com, Dropbox, and Zoom rely on Kentik to run, manage, and optimize their networks.

Our platform ingests trillions of records and serves hundreds of thousands of queries for our users each day. You will gain experience building a production quality, high performance server-and-client SaaS application that handles uniquely high volumes of data.
  
We have built a team of world-class engineers, network experts, and technology thought leaders in a remote-friendly culture from day one. While prior experience in a remote environment is not required, we highly value strong collaboration and communication skills, as well as a high level of independence and autonomy.

*This is a remote role. However, due to the location of the teams we are hiring for, working hours in US time zones is a requirement for this position.

• 5+ years of experience in cloud-based Systems Administration, IT and/or SRE related projects
• Strong experience with public cloud, container and orchestration technologies including AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes, and Docker
• Solid programming and automation skills (Bash, Python, Go) including experience working  with configuration management (infrastructure as code) platforms such as Terraform, Ansible, and Puppet
• Experience working with *nix system command line (e.g. ssh, grep, awk)
• Detailed understanding of major internet protocols (TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP, TLS)
• Networking administration experience: concepts such as routing, firewalls (iptables),  peering sound familiar
• A passion for documenting code, processes, and infrastructure in runbooks and wikis
• Worked with metrics monitoring solutions such as grafana, prometheus, telegraf, and OpenTelemetry
• Experience creating and managing tickets with third party vendors and owning cloud vendor partner relationships

Nice to haves:

• Familiarity with Kubernetes orchestration and automation tools such as Helm, Kustomize, ArgoCD, and Flux
• Experience optimizing CI/CD pipelines such as GitHub Actions, Earthly and Jenkins
• Exposure to PagerDuty Integrations
• Knowledge of SRE, DevOps and GitOps practices and principles

Kentik is a fully remote company that operates globally. We seek professionals that will help us thrive as an organization, and in turn, to broaden and enhance your career. We’re very thorough in the interview process to understand your skills and how they will relate to your successful growth here at Kentik. Our compensation philosophy encompasses a fair program for all in order to attract, engage and retain talented individuals who will drive our business and wow our customers.

The compensation range for this position is: $159,000 - $215,000. This range reflects the low and high end of the U.S. compensation range Kentik reasonably and generally expects to pay the hired candidate in this role. The actual compensation offered may be lower or higher than the stated range depending on various factors, including but not limited to:

• Experience with the skill sets required for success
• Demonstrated competencies and potential 
• A geographic market-based approach

In addition to a great career opportunity, Kentik offers stellar benefits for our employees, which include:

• 100% of premiums are paid by company for health, vision and dental coverage for you and your dependents
• Additionally, an annual Health Reimbursement Account (HRA) of $3,000 for an individual or $4,500 for a family
• Paid family & medical leave 
• Open PTO, a quarterly Wellness Day, and a minimum of 10 paid holidays
• 401(k) retirement account
• Home office reimbursement 
• Stock options

Note: Benefits are as listed for all US full-time employees. For compensation, international applicants will be treated equitably in relation to the laws applicable within the countries in which we operate.

The true meaning of Kentik is visibility. We’re committed to making sure everyone feels empowered to use their voice, has a sense of belonging, and is represented at Kentik. 

We don’t look for individuals who fit the culture, but those who will continue to add to the culture.
We encourage everyone to apply, especially those individuals who are underrepresented in the industry: people of color, LGBTQI+ community, women, individuals with disabilities (both seen and unseen), veterans, and people of any age or family status. 

Kentik is committed to creating an inclusive interview process. If you require a reasonable accommodation during the application or interview process, please reach out to recruiting@kentik.com.

Come as you are!
You will be working at a fast-growing, well-funded startup alongside industry thought leaders and network aficionados as we build the future of observability and set the high bar for how network operations and digital businesses should run. With a competitive salary and amazing benefits on top of the meaningful and challenging projects you’ll take on, we’re sure you’ll enjoy joining the Kentik team.

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