As a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) at Shopmonkey, you’ll be instrumental in ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of our systems and services for both internal and external stakeholders. We’re seeking a seasoned professional who demonstrates mastery in computer science fundamentals and possesses a track record of independently implementing and delivering end-to-end, cloud-native solutions. This role requires strong backend expertise, including a deep understanding of our application’s infrastructure, alongside proficiency in Site Reliability Engineering principles.
What you will do
- Work directly with an Engineering Lead and other team members in the Platform and engineering teams to ensure reliable system functionality and scalability.
- Lead efforts in designing, building, and maintaining highly scalable, reliable, and secure infrastructure solutions.
- Drive initiatives to improve system reliability, performance, and scalability.
- Act as a subject matter expert in incident response, participating in on-call rotations and resolving production issues promptly.
- Design and implement robust monitoring, alerting, and incident response mechanisms to ensure system uptime and availability.
- Conduct post-incident reviews and implement preventive measures to mitigate future incidents.
- Mentor junior team members and contribute to their professional development.
- Stay abreast of industry best practices and emerging technologies, advocating for their adoption where applicable.
We are looking for people who have
- Extensive experience in backend development and automation, with proficiency in: Bash, Golang, SQL and Typescript.
- Strong understanding of Site Reliability Engineering principles and practices.
- Demonstrated experience in designing and implementing scalable and reliable infrastructure solutions.
- Expertise with public cloud providers (GCP, AWS, Azure)
- Expertise with Distributed Systems, managed with Kubernetes
- Minimum of 7 years of professional software development experience, with a focus on site reliability engineering or infrastructure operations.
- Experience with PubSub/Eventing patterns is advantageous.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
In the United States the range is typically a salary of $160,000 to $180,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. The range provided is Shopmonkey’s reasonable estimate of the base compensation for this role. The actual amount will be based on job-related and non-discriminatory factors such as location, experience, training, skills, and abilities. Consult with your Recruiter during the initial call to determine a more targeted range based on these job-related factors. In addition to this base compensation company stock options and benefits as outlined below are included.
Why Shopmonkey?
Shopmonkey has become an amazing environment where employees feel that they are valued as people, and not just worker bees. To ensure that our team thrives, we invest in the following perks (benefits below are mainly for U.S. based, full-time employees) Other benefits vary upon location outside the United States, and employment status):
💪🏼 Health & Wellness
- Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance benefits available the 1st of the month following hire date
- Short term and long term disability
- Employee assistance program
- Reimbursement for a personal health and wellness membership
- Generous parental leave
- 401(k) available upon hire
✈️ Time Off
- 11 paid holidays
- Flexible time off – take the time off you need!
🥰 Giving Back
- Matching donations for approved charitable organizations
- Group volunteer efforts
🌟 Personal & Professional Development
- Weekly internal product & company training sessions
- Monthly events & education activities focused on DEIB, personal and/or professional development
- Individual career progression plans and leadership/management training
About the Industry
The U.S. is the second largest passenger vehicle market with more than 260 million registered passenger vehicles, and the global car repair market is estimated to be worth more than $500B. Shopmonkey aims to change the status quo and enable auto shops to become more efficient and give their customers a more delightful experience.