Senior Operations Engineer

InfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB, the leading time series platform used to collect, store, and analyze all time series data at any scale. Developers can query and analyze their time-stamped data in real-time to discover, interpret, and share new insights to gain a competitive edge. InfluxData is a remote-first company with a globally distributed workforce. For more information, visit www.influxdata.com.

You'll be using your operations skill, software crafting abilities, and teamwork to maintain and extend foundational technologies to provide highly available, distributed services to customers who rely on InfluxData's time series platform where metrics and events are first-class citizens.

You'll join an awesome team of DevOps/SREs, bringing experience in designing, implementing, and operating large scale, multi-cloud Kubernetes infrastructure driven by GitOps methodology. You understand that great products require great culture - you design and implement with respect and kindness across multiple engineering teams.

We embrace an empathetic, supportive, and communicative environment pulling from one another's strengths and perseverance through failure and the resulting lessons learned.

The application window will be open until at least December 20, 2024. This opportunity will remain online based on business needs which may be before or after the specified date.

 What you'd bring to the table 

• Production-level experience with Kubernetes and surrounding ecosystems (e.g., Istio, Vault, and other Cloud Native technologies) in production environments.

• Previous experience working in an enterprise SAAS company

• Terraform and other automation tooling to make life more predictable: you’ve taken manual processes and automated them, or taken automated processes and refined them.

• Hands-on experience with AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure with production workloads within managed Kubernetes platforms as well as more general DevOps patterns (e.g., compute, storage, database offerings unique to each provider)

• Being an active leader of a DevOps or SRE group focused on iterative excellence.

• Willingness to participate in a pager rotation and serve as a subject matter expert on many areas of Kubernetes and general cloud computing principles.

 Bonus if you've had experience

• Implementing and abiding by SLOs dictated by mature SLIs in production.

• Being an incident lead, engaging multiple groups simultaneously to resolve critical problems.

• Working with CircleCI, GitHub Actions, and other CI/CD technologies.

• Automating All the Things with great success (or, if not, how you learned from the experience).

• Thriving in a remote-first, distributed team environment.

• Working with, or on, applications written using Go or Rust

Interview Information:

Our interview process begins remotely. Interviews are typically conducted via Zoom. To ensure every candidate can participate, please let us know if you are unable to access Zoom. Some roles may require an in-person meeting with a team member as part of the final stage.

We offer fantastic benefits for full time employees; in the US these include:

• Medical/dental/vision insurance with 100% coverage for employees and dependents

• Company contribution to your FSA

• Flexible Time Off - take the time you need

• Life Insurance, short and long term disability insurance

• 401(k)

• Wellness programs

• Annual professional development budget

• Financial planning and legal advice

Our Core Values

Our employees are the heart of the company and only by having a core set of beliefs and values will we be successful. We hire and live by these core values:

• We value each other

• We get stuff done

• We believe humility drives learning

• We embrace failure

• We are committed to open source

Visit our careers page to learn more about working at InfluxData.

InfluxData is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or any other categories protected by applicable law. 

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