Site Reliability Engineer

About the Position

The Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) will report to the Lead DevOps Engineer. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record of 3+ years in Site Reliability Engineering. This role is responsible for ensuring the reliability, availability, security, and performance of our systems and applications. They will work directly with our development engineers to ensure monitoring, security, and performance measures are in place. They should be able to step in and recommend improvements to the overall code quality. This role will also include working with the platform team on building out the infrastructure and automation to support our enterprise applications.

About the Platform Engineering Team

The Platform Engineering team is a part of FiscalNote R&D’s Core Platform function, working with R&D teams across the global FiscalNote organization. Platform Engineering is responsible for owning and evolving common tools, libraries, standards, and practices that are shared by numerous teams with similar needs. By understanding the team’s needs and leveraging best practices, Platform Engineering can become a force multiplier for the R&D organization.

About You

You are an engineer who loves to solve technical problems and tackle new challenges. You possess a robust set of skills and experience but are keen to dig into new technologies and programming languages. You are enthusiastic, self-reliant, thoughtful, and resourceful. You’re excited to help architect a new product, or jump into an existing one and look for ways to improve it. You take the initiative to own and improve the stability and security of applications, and introduce new practices while prioritizing automating solutions for future team members. You thrive as a self-starter and can operate with autonomy. 

What To Expect In This Position:

• Define and implement best practices for site reliability, scalability, performance, and managing costs.
• Design and implement monitoring solutions to proactively identify issues and prevent disruptions
• Work with development engineers to help troubleshoot applications. Taking a deep dive into the design, configuration, and code.
• Supporting production applications and workloads written in Node, Typescript, Ruby, Java, and Python. 
• Team with other engineers' initiatives to evolve FiscalNote’s infrastructure, architecture, and development processes.
• Ensure the security and compliance of our applications by implementing best practices and following industry standards.
• Work with the Platform team and Development engineers to ensure the infrastructure supports the needs of our applications
• Work in a highly collaborative, fast-paced environment.
• Work closely with Global R&D teams.
• Manage your workload and commitments effectively, and act autonomously.
• Participate in an on-call rotation with the Platform team.

What Sets You Apart:

• Experience implementing APM (Application Performance Monitoring) for existing code bases.
• Experience debugging complex microservice applications.
• Experience working with AWS, specifically core services such as EC2, RDS, S3, Cloudwatch, WAF.
• 3+ years working in a SRE or development role in a technology organization.
• 1+ years of work experience with Kubernetes.
• 2+ years of system architecture.
• 1+ years of DevOps experience.
• 2+ years with Infrastructure-as-Code and configuration management tools such as Terraform (preferred), Cloud Formation, Pulumi, and Ansible.
• Coding experience in Python, Ruby, Java, Node, and/or other languages.
• Experience with writing and improving SQL queries.
• Experience with database performance tuning.
• Experience with Linux CLI and POSIX shells.
• Experience with working with multiple development teams on different projects in different code bases.