Site Reliability Engineer

Who we are:

Hi, we’re SambaSafety and we offer the industry’s most comprehensive driver monitoring software. Our technology helps everyone from large corporations to small companies ensure only the safest individuals are driving on behalf of their business. These companies trust SambaSafety to keep their employees safe on the roads, helping protect their brand, greater community and bottom line. Simply put, we save lives and are on a mission to reduce crashes on American roadways 20 percent by 2025. 

We’ve built an inclusive, supportive, and exceptional culture where every employee is empowered in their role. Don’t take our word for it; we’ve been recognized as a Top Workplace by The Denver Post and Built In Colorado. And our employees rate SambaSafety top-notch, with a rock solid 5.0 Glassdoor rating.

Objectives of this role:

• Provide primary operational support and engineering for multiple large-scale distributed software applications.
• Run the production environment by monitoring availability and taking a holistic view of system health.
• Build software and systems to manage platform infrastructure and applications.
• Improve reliability, quality, and time-to-market of our suite of software solutions.
• Measure and optimize system performance, with an eye toward pushing our capabilities forward, getting ahead of customer needs, and innovating for continual improvement.

Responsibilities:

• Gather and analyze metrics from operating systems as well as applications to assist in performance tuning and fault finding.
• Hands-on delivery of solutions and/or systems that scale and support the production environment.
• Partner with development teams to improve services through rigorous testing and release procedures.
• Participate in system design consulting, platform management, and capacity planning.
• Create sustainable systems and services through automation and uplifts.
• Balance feature development speed and reliability with well-defined service-level objectives.

Required skills and qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in computer science or related discipline.
• Minimum 5 years as a Site Reliability Engineer, DevOps Engineer, or Platform Engineer in a SaaS environment with AWS.
• Ability to program (structured and OOP) using one or more high-level languages, such as Python, Java, C/C++, Ruby, and JavaScript.
• Experience with distributed storage technologies such as NFS, HDFS, Ceph, and Amazon S3, as well as dynamic resource management frameworks (Apache Mesos, Kubernetes, Yarn).
• Proactive approach to identifying problems, performance bottlenecks, and areas for improvement.

Preferred skills and qualifications:

• Coding experience beyond simple scripts.
• Previous experience working with Kubernetes in AWS (AWS EKS).
• Experience working with distributed data store (Apache Kafka, Amazon MSK).
• Previous success with event logging and APM solutions.
• Experience building enterprise level disaster recovery.
• Experience with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, CircleCI, etc.).

This job can be fully remote.

Benefits and Perks:

• Unlimited Paid Time Off and Paid Volunteer Days
• 401k match and generous Healthcare Benefits including a fully employer paid family medical plan
• Wellness & Tuition Reimbursement
• Zoom Happy Hours
• Flexible Work From Home schedule & a Monthly Internet stipend
• Lots of Samba swag
• Samba Virtual Events including our famous Samba Sprint

Our team of talented and committed safety professionals is exceptional. At SambaSafety we strive to foster an inclusive culture that supports, encourages and celebrates a wide array of diversity. We are committed to creating a space where all employees can show up as their authentic selves every day, and we work to advance employee equality, diversity and inclusion.

SambaSafety provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, gender identity, and expression or genetics.

Come join us to find out for yourself what all the excitement is about!