Site Reliability Engineer

About Us: Want to join a company on the cutting edge of technology and travel? Want to be part of a fantastic and fun company that’s in the online travel advertising space? Sojern works with 93% of the Fortune 500 travel companies and has spent more than a decade analyzing the complete traveler path to purchase. We drive travelers from dream to destination by activating multi-channel branding and performance solutions on the Sojern Traveler Platform for more than 8,500 customers around the world. Sojern made Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500 list for the last 6 years in a row, and was recognized on the Top Company Cultures list by Entrepreneur Magazine and named a Best Place to Work by AdAge. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, with teams based in Dubai, Dublin, Hong Kong, London, Mexico City, Omaha, Paris, and Singapore. Need more convincing that Sojern is a great place to work? Check out our Glassdoor reviews! The Team: Join our Site Reliability Engineering team and make an impact helping all Sojern’s engineering teams become as secure and efficient as possible. You will be part of a high performing and very versatile SRE team that handles many aspects of modern cloud software deployment. We work closely with Software Engineers to provide 3 main functions: improving the reliability of any service on our cloud, continually monitoring and advancing our security posture for these services, and increasing the efficiency of our deployment pipelines and infrastructure builds. At Sojern you will work within our SRE team, but also be a part of an engineering pod that is working on revenue producing features, helping them get their code to production, and help it to perform at its best. The Role: We are looking for a Senior SRE in the US to work primarily with our Software Engineers located in the Pacific Time Zone, but also to provide assistance to teams in other timezones. An ideal candidate would have extensive experience building cloud infrastructure on Google Cloud with Terraform and have strong experience running workloads that scale on Google’s Kubernetes Engine. Responsibilities: ● Join the efforts of our Site Reliability Engineering team, establish best practices, and help shape the SRE culture at Sojern ● Help our teams build and improve our Google Cloud infrastructure ● Work closely with Software Engineers to get applications deployed, scaled properly, and to use the right tool for the job whether the solution should be serverless or containerized in a Kubernetes service ● Secure and instrument the Kubernetes cluster, the container, and the cloud resources utilized ● Enjoy a fast paced environment that challenges you to adapt to change swiftly ● Focus on solving the problem with simple, concise, maintainable, transparent techniques ● Implement revenue producing and cost conserving features plus discover and contribute your own ● Ability to work independently, learn from and mentor other team members ● Apply statistical measurements to your systems to carve out the signal from the noise What you bring to the table: ● 5+ years of experiences as a Site Reliability Engineer/Cloud Engineer/Software Engineer ● Extensive experience using cloud resources and building infrastructure on Google Cloud Platform using Terraform ● Experience configuring and deploying containerized workloads on Kubernetes, securing and monitoring them, and troubleshooting the issues that they may produce. ● Experience building and troubleshooting containers ● Fluent in Python or Go ● Excellent grasp of CS fundamentals, the Linux operating system, and common GNU/Linux tools ● BS/MS in CS/EE or equivalent experience. Bonus Points: ● Experience working closely with software engineering teams in an effort to accelerate output ● Experience contributing to or writing and enforcing SOC2 policies ● Experience with distributed systems and highly parallel processes. ● Experience building CI/CD pipelines for and with containers ● Experience deploying gRPC services and making them available securely for public consumption ● Experience with Datadog, Codefresh, or Jenkins Perks: ● Culture: Strong core business values, focus on teamwork, vibrant, social and fun environment ● Opportunities: Be part of a growing team with training and support to help you grow ● Half-Day, No Meeting Fridays: Get work done without interruption, then get a head start on your weekend ● Work-Life Balance: Unlimited vacation days and flexible working hours in a fairly decentralized work force ● Give Back: We give 40 hours a year to volunteer and organize office volunteer programs with local organizations ● Competitive Localized Benefits ● Ownership: Lead creative and challenging projects ● IATA travel discount allowing discounts in hotel, resort, and airline reservations