Senior Site Reliability Engineer - remote

VidMob
Posted 3 years ago  • Pittsfield, MA

Overview

VidMob is an award-winning Marketing Creative Platform that provides an end-to-end technology solution for all a brand’s creative needs. It is an integrated platform combining first-of-a-kind creative analytics with best-in-class creative production to understand and improve marketing effectiveness.

We seek candidates that are curious, collaborative and committed to excellence. We take every hire seriously and only choose seriously talented team members. We care deeply about our employees and are dedicated to making VidMob an exceptional company to work for. VidMob is proud to offer comprehensive health plans fully paid for by the company, enhanced Maternity/Paternity Programs and unlimited vacation plans. We also provide employees with access to 401K plans, healthy food and snacks, and pre-taxed transit.

VidMob is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

VidMob Engineering

VidMob engineers develop a first-in-class operating system for creativity, bringing together the power of data and human creativity to help creators, marketers, non-profits, and more to thrive in the era of scaled digital creative. We are a high-performing team with a strong, positive culture. These are the tenets of engineering at VidMob:

  • Continued improvement of our products, our organizations, and ourselves
  • Outcomes over outputs;delivered value is more important than lines code, sprint points, hours, or other metrics
  • Ownership of success;we are individually responsible for our success as a group;we take our commitments very seriously
  • Our opportunity deserves urgency and care
  • We value our colleagues;we are collaborative and supportive and our diversity is one of our strengths
  • We build for the user;the needs of the user are our inspiration and our arbiter of success

What you'll do

A Site Reliability Engineer at VidMob is responsible for maintaining the overall health of the VidMob infrastructure, and monitoring the software in production. An SRE empowers developers to release their software running on infrastructure that they maintain using tools such as CloudFormation and Terraform and monitor using CloudWatch and DataDog. An SRE maintains monitoring tools and dashboards, and sets up alerts to notify themselves and developers before problems occur.

Who We’re Seeking

  • Know your way around a Linux command line
  • Are adept at implementing cloud best practices, for deployment, security, and monitoring
  • Have extensive experience with AWS
  • Have a comprehensive understanding of networking concepts such as VPCs, firewalls, TCP stacks, and similar concepts
  • Know your way around the AWS console, but prefer the command line and tools such as CloudFormation and Terraform.
  • Are happy to take part in the on-call rotation, document issues that come up so that they are easier to resolve in the future, and spend time working to make sure that you rarely get paged.
  • Have opinions about how to make the VidMob infrastructure more scalable, reliable, and secure. You can effectively communicate those ideas and back them up with data.
  • Feel comfortable performing post-incident reviews to make sure problems do not recur.
  • Are adept at documenting, mentoring, and training team members in following SRE best practices, including Infrastructure as Code, monitoring, and continuous deployment.