Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Remote)

United States

What We Do

At GoGuardian, we’re helping build a future where all learners are ready and inspired to solve the world’s greatest challenges. Our award-winning system of learning solutions is purpose-built for K-12 and trusted by school leaders to promote effective teaching and equitable engagement while helping empower educators to keep students safe. 

What It’s Like to Work at GoGuardian

We are a fast-growing learning company that thrives on making bold moves and setting high standards. Working with us means joining a (mostly!) remote team of diverse, passionate, mission-driven employees who are inspired by our vision, dedicated to our customers, and comfortable with rapid change. We balance our rocketship pace with a work culture that offers unbridled support, allyship, and inclusivity…to say nothing of fun! Join our Neurodiversity ERG, attend an online magic show (and bring your kids), head to a DEI Community of Practice session, share a pet photo with other dog lovers, or relax in an online meditation class. Our culture has earned us accolades! We have been named one of Built In's 2022 Best Places to Work™ and are certified as a Great Place to Work®.

The Role

We’re looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to help design, build, and maintain the infrastructure that powers GoGuardian's products and services. In this role, you’ll work with engineers across the company to develop and operate scalable and reliable systems, as well as troubleshoot and resolve production issues. This position sits on the Tech Foundation Team, a team that enables GoGuardian engineers to deliver software quickly and efficiently while maintaining a high level of system availability and performance. The ideal candidate has a strong understanding of cloud computing, distributed systems, and modern reliability practices.

What You'll Do

• Design and implement infrastructure to support and improve the reliability of GoGuardian products
• Work with engineers to troubleshoot and resolve infrastructure problems
• Develop and and maintain our infrastructure monitoring and altering systems
• Participate in on-call rotations
• Plan for the capacity needs of our products and test their performance and efficiency
• Work on projects to improve the security of GoGuardian's infrastructure

Who You Are

• 5+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering or a related field
• Direct involvement in shipping multiple production SaaS applications / products in varied disciplines or verticals
• Proficiency with the following technologies and practices: GCP and/or AWS (GCP preferred), Kubernetes (CKA or similar certification preferred), Docker, Terraform
• On the job exposure or experience with the following technologies preferred: Go (Golang), JavaScript, Python, Datadog, Prometheus, MongoDB, Redis, Firebase Realtime Database, BigQuery
• Software development experience and/or understanding of programming languages, data structures and algorithms, writing production-grade code
• Learns quickly, applies existing knowledge to new challenges and is building mastery in relevant technical skills
• Confident in making technical decisions and explaining the reasoning behind them
• Comfortable developing solid technical solutions to ambiguous or open-ended problems
• Eager to take initiative in a fast-paced, ever-changing, dynamic environment.
• Fueled by the opportunity to truly impact the education landscape.
• Something else? Tell us! We want to learn more about you…

What We Offer

• Competitive pay, complete health insurance, 401(k) matching, bonuses, and an employee stock option plan.
• Flexible time off, 13 paid holidays, paid parental leave, wellness days, and a paid year-end holiday break.
• A robust catalog of benefits that support your professional growth and personal wellbeing: learning funds, lifestyle funds, online yoga & meditation classes, fertility & adoption reimbursement, and more…

Plus the intangible:

• A varied and challenging role in a global and highly innovative high-growth company.
• Supportive, driven colleagues who have your back and share your passion.

The typical base salary range for this position is $163,000 - $187,000 per year. The range displayed on this job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire base pay for this position and your pay will be determined by a variety of factors, including your primary work location, skills, qualifications and experience. Additional benefits information is listed on our careers page.

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