Site Reliability Engineer
X Corp
Contract San Francisco, California, United States Posted 8 months ago
About Position
Site Reliability Engineer (Contract)
$80.00 / Hourly
San Francisco, California, United States
Site Reliability Engineer
Contract San Francisco, California, United States Posted 8 months ago
Skills
• Monitoring operational health of foundational infrastructure services • Ensuring the performance reliability and scalability of our backend systems • Troubleshooting and debugging • Collaborating with other X engineering teams to effectively mitigate and resolve operational issues improve service monitoring and alarming • Develop teams operational processes and tooling • Increase team effectiveness by automationDescription
Top Skills' Details
Python/Scala/or Java - Strong OOP & Algorithm knowledge of one of the three languages, not just scripting knowledge
Infrastructure Automation - Leveraging Terraform/Kubernetes/etc.
Multiple Clouds - Main cloud is GCP but also open to AWS.
Who we are:
X serves our community of users and customers by working tirelessly to preserve free expression and choice, create limitless interactivity, and create a marketplace that enables the economic success of all its participants.
What you'll do:
X’s infrastructure team operates a number of internally developed foundational services that are used by almost every engineer at ??•? to build higher-level distributed applications. Services like Observability, Distributed coordination, Service discovery and others have been purpose-built to meet our demanding scale, latency, and reliability requirements. We are mission critical to X so can’t afford any downtime. Operating our own systems at hyper growth levels is a rewarding challenge, it is what helps make us great. We are a tight knit and passionate team that values fast pace, innovation, creativity, and a strong commitment to our mission. Come help us keep X online by ensuring our critical infrastructure services are always up.
Responsibilities
- We're looking for engineers who are passionate about operating mission critical infrastructure at massive scale:
- • 4+ years of site reliability, DevOps, or software engineering experience, preferably in operational roles
- • Experience with developer workflows and software engineering best practices (e.g. unit testing, code reviews)
- • Experience with tools like git, puppet
- • Familiarity with basics of the Linux operating system and ecosystem (cron, systemd, etc)
- • Proficiency in one or more object-oriented programming languages (Python, Java, Scala, C++, ..)
- • Experience with business-critical distributed large-scale systems
- Employee Value Proposition (EVP)
- Cutting Edge teams - working in fast pace challenging environment - goal is to build a top tier engineering company
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