Instructables.com, DevOps / Site Reliability Engineer

Instructables.com, DevOps/Site Reliability Engineer

Location: Pier 9, San Francisco, CA- United States

Job ID: 18WD27349

Autodesk is looking for someone who’s excited by making (maybe you have a CNC in your garage already!) and will thrive in a culture of DIY and makers. If you have broad-based experience keeping large computer systems running smoothly, and you’re excited to share in a culture of making, give us a shout!

This is a full-time position located in either our waterfront offices at Pier 9 in San Francisco, or in our Portland, OR office that is currently under construction. Please submit your resume, cover letter, and, if you have one, your Instructables member name.

You will manage infrastructure, deployment, and scaling for Instructables, making sure that users see reliable and snappy service throughout all of our application layers. You will own our caching, load balancing, and server clusters, and work alongside the rest of the engineering team to address performance issues before they affect users. You will understand our network diagram thoroughly, and become the go-to person for troubleshooting issues relating to the flow of requests through our network.

Your role will be at the intersection between our programming team and the systems and servers that support them, so strong communications skills are a must. You’ll need to be able to communicate hardware and software needs effectively within our organization.

On typical days, you will manage new feature deployments, monitor site performance on a variety of server status and timing charts, keep our staging environment humming, verify database backups, identify and solve problems, and help us work towards simpler, more efficient infrastructure that we can grow into. You will plan how parts of the application interact, keep caching and scaling working smoothly, and coordinate how abuse is handled.

Some areas you will be working in regularly:

With Autodesk software, you have the power to Make Anything. The future of making is here, bringing with it radical changes in the way things are designed, made, and used. It’s disrupting every industry: architecture, engineering, and construction; manufacturing; and media and entertainment. With the right knowledge and tools, this disruption is your opportunity. Our software is used by everyone – from design professionals, engineers and architects to digital scientists, students and hobbyists. We constantly explore new ways to integrate all dimensions of diversity across our employees, customers, partners, and communities. Our ultimate goal is to expand opportunities for anyone to imagine, design, and make a better world.

At Autodesk, we’re building a diverse workplace and an inclusive culture to give more people the chance to imagine, design, and make a better world.