Senior Software Site Reliability Engineer I

The Platform Engineering team is responsible for enabling the organization by developing tooling and architectural patterns to leverage the public cloud in a reliable and scalable manner. As a Site Reliability Engineer, you will serve as a technical leader for the team as well as the organization and help evolve our technology through automation and reliable architecture as well help increase velocity by adoption of such implementations.

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What you’ll do:

• Driving solutions and implementing systems that propel the organization as we leverage the capability of the Cloud to provide a seamless Platform. 
• Compute Platform architecture and development (IaaS, PaaS)
• Core infrastructure tools and frameworks (Configuration Management, IAM, WAF, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, Monitoring, HA, kubernetes, Helm, FLux, Service Mesh, etc.)
• Provide expertise in the use of Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and container orchestration systems like Kubernetes.
• Collaborate across Engineering and Product teams to translate application requirements to infrastructure capabilities
• Maintaining an automation centric vision and incorporating SRE methodologies in an effort to increase reliability and decreasing toil
• Involvement in technical design and architecture discussions and decisions as well as contributing to technical troubleshooting in various part of the stack

What’s great about the role:

• You will have the opportunity to contribute greatly to an extremely engineering-focused organization.
• Your contributions will have a noticeable impact on our members as well as your fellow Karmanauts (that’s what we call ourselves).
• You will be involved in organizational efforts of continuous improvement to increase and ensure the reliability of Credit Karma.
• You will get broad exposure to our full stack, consisting of desired and progressive technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Google Cloud Platform, Jenkins, etc.
• You will grow and learn and have fun doing it--it’s part of our culture.
• And, of course, all those awesome company perks that you have probably already read about.
  
  

Minimum Basic Requirement:

• 6+ years of experience in a web-centric Linux production environment building and architecting infrastructure to scale modern web applications and supporting components.
• Strong understanding of Computer Engineering with a focus on Infrastructure, Platform, and Application (Cloud, Containerization, Container orchestration, Network, Application Reliability, Database Architecture).
• Demonstrable knowledge of TCP/IP, HTTP, web application security, and experience supporting multi-tier web application architectures.
• Experience running Infrastructure at scale; utilizing Configuration Management and automation to ensure idempotency, ephemerality, and reliability.
• Strong experience in scripting or relevant programming skills (Python, Go or other higher-level OOP languages) for automating repetitive tasks.
• Deep understanding of container workload deployments as well as related orchestration technologies (ie: Kubernetes) as well as experience with securing Terraform Infrastructure as Code deployments. 
• Familiar with SRE methodologies and passionate about solving operation problems by utilizing automation and software.
• Ability to communicate effectively vertically and horizontally within the organization via demonstrated written and verbal communication skills.
• Extensive experience securing GCP/AWS workloads in an enterprise-scale, mixed-vendor environment.

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Ability to communicate effectively vertically and horizontally within the organization via demonstrated written and verbal communication skills.
• Eagerness to challenge the status quo, balanced with a reasonable and methodical approach to effecting change
• Self-starting attitude and fearless ascent up the learning curve. Thrives in a distributed workplace environment
• Advanced experience with container orchestration systems like Kubernetes, Mesos, etc. 
• Experience working in a hybrid environment as well as Public Cloud, e.g. Google Cloud Platform, AWS, Azure, etc.