Sr. Site Reliability Engineer - Observability

AppFolio · Dallas, TX · 3 wk ago

Engineering$138k–$173k/yrFull-time

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

Helping to build common infrastructure and improving the reliability, quality of services, and overall observability patterns.
Ensuring all aspects of shared product spaces have plans for exception reporting, capacity planning, monitoring and alerting, backups, runbooks, configuration management, DDoS protection, infrastructure as code, and disaster recovery.
Collaborating or embedding with engineering teams to help them improve the reliability and quality of their services and infrastructure.
Providing reliable, scalable observability and infrastructure for key components of the AppFolio Real Estate Platform.
Building the future of reliable, critical services and supporting 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: relational databases, web servers, networking, OS, containers, load balancers, etc.
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 (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.

Benefits