Site Reliability (DevOps) Engineer (Senior and mid-level) - remote

Wanderu

Posted 3 years ago

Would you like to be part of a fun group of travel junkies set out to revolutionize the travel world? Wanderu is an exciting Boston-based startup determined to create the travel brand for the next generation. Wanderu’s ground travel search is the simplest way to book bus and train travel, making peoples travel experience more convenient and fun! This is your opportunity to join an exciting, fast-paced startup environment and make a difference in the world, one traveler at a time.

We hire people who are driven, solutions-focused, and passionate about their work. Our employees never fill a single role and always rise to new challenges with excitement and curiosity. We are currently a fully distributed team with some concentration in the Boston area.

We are seeking resourceful systems engineers who will develop automation of our cloud environment, including configuration, deployment, auto-scaling, redundancy, monitoring, load-testing and auto-validation. In this role you will be a key individual that will make sure that our systems are up and performing to our growing demand. This position requires a heavy amount of code and technical leadership. You will be instrumental in how services are deployed and how data gets to our customers efficiently.

The senior role offers lots of ownership and responsibility in helping to set the direction and vision for site reliability at Wanderu. There is opportunity for leadership and career advancement as well.

Roles &responsibilities

Ownership of systems for cloud management, deployment, scraping, auto-scaling, validation and redundancy
Support our monitoring/analytics systems and build new reports/graphs/visualizations to alert us to underperforming services/partners
Collaborate with our application teams for load testing and validation of our microservices
Responsible for the continuous deployment of our microservices, including performance testing, validation and analysis
First line of detection and defense for issues in production
Collaborate with development teams to assist with scaling of software and forecast infrastructure growth
Assist with developing technical specifications for emerging projects
Develop documentation for internal training and communication around system architecture

Qualifications

3+ years experience with e-commerce or web services in a Systems or IT group
Nice to have: Experience with MongoDB, node.js, Python/asyncio, Linux security
Experience with agile software practices (version control, issue tracking, CI/CD)
Experience with nginx, Jenkins, Ansible, Nagios/Icinga, Docker, Kubernetes
3+ years experience programming in: Python, nodejs, Java, Perl, PHP, Ruby, or bash
3+ years experience Linux server administration
3+ years experience with cloud computing technologies (we use AWS)

How to Apply

If this sounds like you, make sure you reach out to us right away. Please send us your resume, cover letter, and anything else you think we might want to see from someone applying for this position to jobs+sre@wanderu.com (Put the position title in the subject too please).

We look forward to talking with you about how Wanderu can enable the next step in your career!

Benefits

Health package, including dental &vision
Stock options – all employees benefit in the performance of the company
Unlimited vacation policy
Flexible remote work policies
Quarterly internal hackathons where we get to work on crazy fun ideas
Lunch &Learns by industry leaders
Free bus &train tickets!
Team outings (once safe to do so)

https://www.wanderu.com/blog/site-reliability-engineer/

Note: We currently do not offer visa sponsorship. Please do not apply if this is a requirement.

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