Senior Site Reliability Engineer (DevOps)

Hi, I'm Kitt - Director of Engineering. Customer.io is looking for a collaborative Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) who loves solving interesting puzzles and is excited to help us build out a scalable, reliable platform that our customers love. 

Our small, remote-first team is fun-loving, passionate and highly effective. We offer a lot of opportunity to grow and refine your skills while having a significant impact. The other members of our site reliability team have backgrounds in a wide variety of industries, from Telecom to Gaming, with 10 - 20 years of experience in DevOps. We believe that embracing our unique perspectives and expertise is key to our success as a collaborative team.

As a Site Reliability Engineer you will:

Design, build, and maintain core infrastructure pieces that allow Customer.io scaling to support real-time processing and delivery of billions of messages

Plan the growth of Customer.io’s infrastructure

Automate the deployment process to make it as boring as possible

Be on our on-call rotation to respond to Customer.io availability incidents and provide support for technical support engineers with customer incidents

Ensure monitoring and alerting, alert on symptoms and not on outages

Document every action so lessons learned turn into repeatable actions and then into automation

Debug production issues across services and levels of the stack

Take an active role in a friendly and supportive team that encourages you and the entire company to grow as individuals, professionals, and teams

Learn, practice, and share with your coworkers through code review, pair programming, team collaboration, and training to help improve our collective knowledge and best practices together

What we're looking for:

A collaborative mindset backed by excellent communication skills and a desire to help us make great decisions in an empathetic and respectful way

Experience in managing and working with RDB systems (MySQL)

A solid understanding of problems of scalability and experience deploying and managing distributed applications on cloud infrastructure

Deep knowledge of UNIX environments and the ability to apply modern collaborative development practices. Go experience is nice to have, but most of our engineers have succeeded while picking it up on the job

A self-starter who values synchronous and asynchronous work

Experience working with Google Cloud Platform would be nice to have

Preferably located in APAC time zones

We understand that you might not have all the skills we've listed, and that's okay. If you have a combination of some of the items listed and you're interested in developing in the others, we want to hear from you!

About Customer.io

Our mission at Customer.io is to power automated communication that people like to receive. Today over 3,000+ internet businesses use Customer.io to manage, send, and track performance of email, SMS, and push notifications. Unlike typical marketing platforms, Customer.io helps businesses increase relevance by using behavioral data: what people do or don’t do when logged in to a web or mobile app.

We are offering a starting salary of $118,000 - $167,400 USD based on experience and subject to market rate.

Benefits at Customer.io include:

Unlimited PTO - we recommend 20 vacation days (in addition to holidays and sick days) so that you can unwind, unplug, and recharge

100% medical, dental, vision, and supplemental insurance for you and your dependents

12 weeks paid parental leave - for birth, adoption, or foster care

401k retirement matching - up to 5% dollar for dollar match to retirement contributions

Health and wellness allowance - up to $200 USD per month that can be used for your healthy living needs, including gym membership, acupuncture, massage, or bike repairs

Home office stipend - up to $2,000 USD to help you get your home office set up so you can do your best work

Internet + cell phone reimbursement - up to $200 USD per month for your internet and cell phone plans

Co-working space reimbursement - up to $300 USD per month for those times you'd prefer to work in a co-working environment

Learning + development - up to $2,000 USD reimbursement per year to use on conferences, books, classes, workshops, and passion projects - anything that will help you develop your skills

1 month paid sabbatical after four years at Customer.io - to treat yourself to a vacation, or spend however you choose

Company retreats twice a year - we typically get together IRL every spring and fall, but most recently had an amazing virtual retreat!

Flexible schedule, work anywhere you want! - as long as you have a reliable internet connection and some overlapping work time with your manager, you can work where and when you want

All final candidates will be asked to complete an employment and education verification authorization form (which allows us to verify your job history and education listed on your resume) as part of our pre-employment process.

Customer.io recognizes the stifling impact of systemic injustice on diverse communities. We commit to using our influence to increase inclusion and equity within the tech industry. We strive to build an inclusive team culture, implement bias-free hiring practices, and develop community partnerships to expand our global impact.

Join us!

Check out our careers page for more information about why you should come work with us! We are passionate about our core values of Empathy, Transparency, Responsibility, and Awkwardness and are looking for new coworkers to share and build that passion!

How to apply

Apply at the link below and tell us why you're interested in the position! There is no advantage to applying early so put your best foot forward. We plan to respond to all applicants between December 23 with a status update about your application.

Here's what you can expect from our hiring process (order is subject to change):

30-45 minute video call with the hiring manager, Kitt

One hour technical interview with members of the engineering team

One hour scaling interview with members of the engineering team

30 minute video call with our Technical Recruiter, Natalie

Take-home coding assignment + Review - you'll have approximately one week to work on your assignment