Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Requirements:

• You have 5+ years of experience designing and maintaining complex/large/growing systems.
• You collaborate well with others, and can communicate effectively in a fully-remote culture.
• When reviewing new system designs or code, you naturally think about what can go wrong: edge cases, failure modes, bottlenecks, migrations, releases, interesting metrics, etc.
• You love debugging and finding the root cause of production issues.
• You can't sleep if something doesn't have enough metrics to ensure everything is working properly.
• You are proactive, when you see something broken you jump on it to fix it or suggest improvements.
• You move fast, test and iterate quickly.
• You love the Linux/Unix shell, but hate manual processes and love to automate all the things.

Nice to Haves:

• Experience with AWS cloud, k8s, Terraform/Pulumi, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Elastic Search, PostgreSQL, MariaDB/Mysql.
• Experience supporting highly available, high-throughput REST apis
• Solid knowledge of Python

What You'll Be Doing:

• Meet frequently with your team and mentor to get up to speed
• Setup: familiarize with repositories, task management, dev environment
• Implement and ship your first project
• Familiarize yourself with the RevenueCat dashboards, logging, debugging tools, cloud providers, infrastructure management and general architecture
• Familiarize yourself with workflows and subscription business concepts.
• Be able to scope and work on tasks self-sufficiently within the first 3 months
• Start oncall training
• Participate in code reviews and contribute in other ways (testing, visibility, ...) to improve the reliability and quality of services within the first 3 months
• Contribute to risk assessment, disaster planning and response strategies within the first 6 months
• Be obsessed about our uptime within the first 6 months
• Detect our blindspots and add observability to mitigate them within the first 6 months
• Work closely with product engineers to design reliable rollouts of new features within the first 6 months
• Know all the major components of our system and be able to debug complex issues within the first 12 months
• Have your own initiatives for improving the services and our infrastructure within the first 12 months
• Be able to spec and architect medium-large projects, gather feedback and design validation and rollout plans within the first 12 months
• Mentor other engineers within the first 12 months
• Influence the org to improve general reliability, scalability and performance within the first 12 months

Perks and Benefits:

• $212,000 USD salary regardless of your location
• Competitive equity in a fast-growing, Series C startup backed by top tier investors including Y Combinator
• 10 year window to exercise vested equity options
• Fully remote work environment that promotes autonomy and flexibility
• Suggested 4 to 5 weeks time off to recharge and focus on mental, physical, and emotional health
• $2,000 USD to build your personal workspace
• $1,000 USD annual stipend for your continuous learning and growth