Senior Software Engineer, Site Reliability

<div class="content-intro"><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We offer a hybrid work environment. Most US-based positions can also</span><strong> </strong><span style="font-weight: 400;">be</span><strong> </strong><span style="font-weight: 400;">performed remotely (any exceptions will be noted in the Minimum Qualifications below.)</span></p></div><p><strong>Our Mission:</strong><span style="font-weight: 400;">&nbsp;</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">To actively connect people to their next great opportunity.&nbsp;</span></p> <p><strong>Who We Are:&nbsp;</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">ZipRecruiter is a leading online employment marketplace. Powered by AI-driven smart matching technology, the company actively connects millions of all-sized businesses and job seekers through innovative mobile, web, and email services, as well as through partnerships with the best job boards on the web. ZipRecruiter has the #1 rated job search app on iOS &amp; Android.</span></p> <p><strong>Summary:</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We are seeking a skilled software engineer with a focus on scalability, security, reliability, and extensibility. Our SRE team partners with product-centric engineering teams to provide infrastructure, tools, and architectural design to ensure the rapid and sustainable growth of all our services.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Our team influences the thinking and methodologies of the entire engineering organization. A primary method for this is to provide smoothly paved paths toward good patterns, a few guard rails against particularly bad patterns, and a carefully minimized amount of toil. An excellent candidate will have the breadth of perspective to grasp both short term product feature goals and long term scalability goals, and the depth of technical skill to design systems that reconcile the two.</span></p> <p><strong>Key Focuses:</strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Design, implementation, and troubleshooting of large fault-tolerant distributed systems</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Design and implementation of a diverse ecology of tools and frameworks surrounding our Kubernetes clusters</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Design, implementation, and continual refinement of a complex and performant CI/CD infrastructure</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Embracing and enabling GitOps workflows throughout the organization</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Participation in an on-call rotation covering core infrastructure</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Practicing sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems</span></li> </ul> <p><strong>Minimum Qualifications:</strong><span style="font-weight: 400;">&nbsp;</span></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">5+ years of relevant experience in industry</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Experience architecting, developing, and troubleshooting large scale distributed systems</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Fluency with multiple compiled or interpreted languages, ideally including Go</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Experience with self-managed Kubernetes</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Experience in the design and implementation of high-volume CI/CD pipelines</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Strong low-level Linux skills; strace, netstat, and tcpdump should be old friends</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Preferred Qualifications:</strong>&nbsp;</span></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Computer Science degree or relevant experience</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Experience with AWS, and ideally with managing it with Terraform</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Familiarity with large scale monitoring systems: Prometheus, Cloudwatch, Cloudtrail, etc</span></li> </ul> <p><strong>As part of our team you’ll enjoy:</strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Competitive compensation</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Exceptional benefits package</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Flexible Vacation &amp; Paid Time Off</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Employer-matched 401(k) plan&nbsp;</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">#LI-Remote</span></p> <p>The US base salary range for this full-time position is $140,000-$200,000. 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