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Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Site reliability engineers build and maintain systems from staging to production. Our infrastructure team uses the following technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Terraform, Docker, Jenkins, JavaScript (ES6), NodeJS, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, and Redis. On top of maintaining production systems, site reliability engineers are also responsible for reliability engineering and automating reproducible environments for a number of product teams.

We value passion and drive but we also believe that diversity is the key to success for every high growth technology startup. We welcome people from all walks of life.

Requirements

You Are

• A passionate, entrepreneurial-spirited technologist that owns delivery from concept through to completion
• A relentless advocate for engineering excellence, dedicated to coaching and mentoring others
• A product thinker, who balances user pains and business needs while being pragmatic in making data driven decisions
• An expert at communicating, knowing exactly how to collaborate with sales, marketing, UX, product managers and other engineers
• Constantly curious, always looking to learn and increase your knowledge
• Against micromanagement, endless meetings and imposed unrealistic timelines

You Will

• Design and engineer reliable and maintainable software to meet the application and infrastructure needs of the Battlefy platform
• Wear many hats working across engineering, systems design, DevOps, QA, and more
• Continually set personal and professional goals and do everything in your power to surpass them
• Grow the Battlefy culture, from posting to Slack about good engineering patterns to playing video games and competing in esports tournaments. You embody our values of one team, drive and sportsmanship

Your Experience

• At least 2 years of experience building and maintaining software for customers
• At least 6 months of experience working remotely
• You have built systems on public cloud providers such as AWS, GCP or Azure
• You have worked in a fast growth environment where your pace and hustle was key to getting the right things done
• You know what technical debt is -- you are pragmatic and know when to make trade-offs between architectural purity and reality
• You know what high quality code — and software engineering processes — look like and know how to foster an environment that creates them
• You either know or are able to demonstrate that you can master the following:

• Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Terraform
• Jenkins
• Docker
• Javascript (ES6) and NodeJS
• MongoDB, Postgresql, Redis, Elastic Search
• You are experienced in modern delivery practices and tools, be it running a daily scrum, using Kanban boards as information radiators or rapidly iterating to achieve a MVP
• You have at least 3 years engineering experience in software product companies. For at least 2 of these years you were in a role similar to this one

Bonus Points if you…

• Have experience in organizing or competing in esports tournaments
• Play video games, extra points if competitive/ranked
• Write blog posts
• Ran your own venture (even if it failed)
• Have open source contributions

Benefits

What you’ll get

• Stock
• Competitive salaries
• Paid time off
• Company hardware
• Much more...