Sr. Site Reliability Engineer - Observability

About the role

This is a great opportunity for someone who enjoys supporting teams, helping them become more self-sufficient, and building reliable, simple systems. This position will require on-call responsibilities.

Responsibilities

• Develop Service Level Indicators and Service Level Objectives for the above systems.
• Diagnose and monitor performance and reliability issues across the stack: relational databases, web servers, networking, OS, containers, load balancers, etc.
• Write code to perform critical tasks or in production.
• Provide reliable, scalable observability and infrastructure for key components of the AppFolio Real Estate Platform.
• Support rapid and sustainable growth of new features.

Requirements

• Experience developing Service Level Indicators and Service Level Objectives for the above systems.
• Proven ability to diagnose and monitor performance and reliability issues across the stack.
• Strong coding background: you’ve written code to perform critical tasks or in production.
• Expertise with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi, etc.).
• Expertise with Kubernetes or other container orchestration tooling and technology patterns.
• Experience with Amazon Web Services (commonly EKS, RDS Aurora, Lambda, S3, EBS, Route53, DynamoDB, and VPCs).

Qualifications

• Mastery experience with some areas of our tech like Ruby on Rails, Kubernetes, MySQL, Linux, container orchestration, Networking, etc.

Skills

• Communication skills.
• Teamwork and collaboration.

Benefits

The base salary that we expect to pay for this role is $138,400-$173,000. The actual base salary for this role will be determined by a variety of factors, including but not limited to the candidate’s skills, education, experience, etc. Please note that base pay is one important aspect of a compelling Total Rewards package. The base pay range indicated here does not include any additional benefits or bonuses that you may be eligible for based on your role and/or employment type.

Pay

The base salary that we expect to pay for this role is $138,400-$173,000.

Schedule

Regular full-time employees are eligible for benefits.