Description
At Instructure, we believe in the power of people to grow and succeed throughout their lives.
Our goal is to amplify that power by creating intuitive products that simplify learning and personal development, facilitate meaningful relationships, and inspire people to go further in their education and careers.
As a Sr Site Reliability Engineer, you will partner with engineering teams to automate and optimize service availability, scalability, performance, monitoring, and alerting.
Responsibilities:
- Partnering with engineering teams to automate and optimize service availability, scalability, performance, monitoring, and alerting.
- Developing software to automate the toil required to keep our SaaS offerings highly available, scalable, and resilient, while delivering quickly.
- Building and maintaining platforms and services that are force multipliers used by internal teams.
- Developing and maintaining methodologies of iteratively deploying Instructure’s cloud-based architecture.
- Building resilient and self-scaling systems.
- Participate in on-call rotation.
- Push the boundaries of cloud automation and gain hands-on experience running services with AWS.
Requirements:
- A desire for ownership and love for problem-solving and learning.
- Experience managing a 24/7 SaaS with amazing uptime.
- Experience with at least one cloud platform (Amazon Web Services [preferred], Google Cloud, or Microsoft Azure).
- Programming experience in at least one modern programming language (Python, Go, TypeScript / Node.js, Java, or Ruby).
- Experience with containers (Docker) or container orchestration (Kubernetes, ECS, Mesos).
- Deep understanding of configuration management, automation, and infrastructure-as-code tools (Ansible, Terraform, or Puppet).
- Continuous Integration (CI) / Continuous Delivery (CD) exposure.
- Open, team-oriented, and with a broad range of skills and interests.
- Strong communication skills in English.
Benefits:
- Competitive compensation, plus all full-time employees participate in our ownership program.
- Flexible work culture.
- Generous time off, including local holidays and our annual “Dim the Lights” period.
- Comprehensive wellness programs and mental health support.
- Learning and development resources, including professional development tools and tuition reimbursement.
- The technology and tools you need to do your best work.
- Motivosity employee recognition program.
- A culture rooted in inclusivity, support, and meaningful connection.