Site Reliability Engineer

What you’ll be doing:

• Helping various teams automate various tedium with Python using industry standard best practices
• Refining current automatons, including tools used for infrastructure management.
• Design and build applications to improve the availability, latency, scalability, and performance of our systems.
• Build automations to respond to first level issues, striving to fix them automatically.
• Drafting new standards for the creation of tools and processes.
• Nursing our poor XMPP bot back to health and adding new features.
• Connecting existing 3rd party tools to other internal tools, making a big ol’ web of data mining goodness.
• Eating good foods and sharing friendship.
• Playing a Nintendo game or two, or becoming a Tetris Grandmaster.

What you’ll bring to the table:

• Python engineering experience, including building and running enterprise applications at scale.
• Linux expertise, from shell all the way down to the kernel, including internals and networking.
• Building and running containerized applications using Docker.
• A strong love of making things easier on yourself and others by automating the heck out of everything…From putting pants on to building an 18 story building (in Python!).
• Enjoy working in a fast-paced environment that is fun and borderline wacky. Maybe an excessive amount of wacky. Maybe not that much wacky. Definitely fast paced. Did I say wacky?
• Networking experience (working with switches, firewalls, routers, packet sniffers, load balancers).
• SAN/NAS experience (IBM SVC, V7000, XIV, DS Series, NetApp, FC, iSCSI, NFS).
• Any other automation experience (Selenium, JMeter, Powershell, ActiveState Perl/Python).
• Any other cross platform programming languages C, C++, Go, Java, Erlang, Haskell, COBOL (j/k… maybe).
• Experience in Python web frameworks.
• HTML and CSS experience (design, what-not).
• Shipyard experience. We like boats. Boat expertise optional.
• Proficiency with a certain manufacturer of foam dart gun. (You know the one we mean).

What you didn’t know about the team:

• They are just as wacky and random as this job description.