Site Reliability Engineer – ElasticSearch (Downtown Vancouver)

Our client makes complex communication and collaboration at enterprise level efficient without getting in the way of the transaction itself. They do this by delivering a mission critical cloud application that integrates context and collaboration directly into the communication experience.

As a site reliability engineer, your overarching goal involves maintaining our customers’ confidence by keeping our product fast and reliable. The performance and speed of our application is a core attribute. We're looking for someone who helps us continue to achieve this as we grow rapidly.

Background

·         You write it, you run it: our developers write a service and then they operate it. We can use your help in running it better

·         Build for Operability: What started as a Backbone.js and Node.js + Express app, has moved towards React and Kotlin + Dropwizard. We’re taking lessons from 12factor.net along with it.

·         Infrastructure as Code: We want things to be simple and repeatable. Everything should be done through configuration management and orchestration (Ansible + Cloudformation).

Responsibilities:

·         Provide the leadership in scaling our search platform. Search powers our business. Help us own it.

·         Partner with the product team in implementing and publicizing service level metrics and objectives that act as health indicators of the application.

·         Mentor and join the development team on rotation to instrument the application for resiliency and visibility.

·         Improve our existing infrastructure as well as participate in designing new components such that our product remains highly available and meets the growing demands of our system.

·         Proactively work towards improving our system’s resiliency and reducing our response time on incidents.

Requirements:

·         You know Elasticsearch and have experience helping companies diagnose, assess, and improve their implementation.

·         You have experience debugging distributed systems and you are familiar with optimising applications for throughput and latency.

·         You are a language polyglot. Our product spans multiple programming languages and you have an ability to pick up new frameworks quickly.

·         You have experience in helping companies build better, scalable, and sustainable infrastructure on AWS.

·         You have a passion for working with others and have served as an internal evangelist for driving the cultural changes needed to support a scaling start up.

Our client offers a competitive compensation package at a fast growing SaaS start up with significant growth. They are backed by leading venture capital firms committed to their success. They offer private medical insurance, flexible work scheme, generous maternity and paternity benefits, stock option plan, professional development and most of all amazing colleagues.

If you’re interested to learn more, please reach out!

Contact: Amanda Du Toit amanda@corporate.bc.ca