SRE Observability Engineer

Who We Are:

 At adMarketplace, we are passionate about improving the search experience for consumers, publishers, and advertisers without sacrificing user privacy. We are the largest people-led, privacy-safe consumer search marketplace.  

Our mantra is to let our winners run. From your first day at AMP, you will have the opportunity to make a valuable contribution to the company. We’re excited about building and innovating new products. We embody our five core values (known as our 5C’s) with everything we do- Curiosity, Collaboration, Creative Conflict, Commitment, and Competitiveness. We believe in continuous professional growth, and offer all our employees career path mapping to ensure no one ever stops learning. 

 Growing Company. Small, Dynamic Teams. Real Impact.

The Role

As an observability engineer you will implement observability for legacy infrastructure as well as within Kubernetes (EKS Fargate) in AWS. You will learn our older infrastructure in order to provision, support and maintain legacy infrastructure/applications while we migrate to the cloud. You will help to maintain/revise/create our infrastructure workflow/coding standards as well as our observability standards across all of our media products.

Responsibilities

• Support on-prem infrastructure
• Work closely with software engineers to implement observability within on-prem and cloud-based environments 
• Scale our infrastructure using an infrastructure-as-code mindset
• Join the on-call rotation to support infrastructure
• Solve complex infrastructure challenges related to low-latency large-scale distributed systems
• Create and maintain documentation for runbooks, implementations and infrastructure 
• Create automation tools for the infrastructure team as well as software engineers
• Work with the infrastructure team to migrate on-prem infrastructure to a cloud solution

Qualifications and Skills

Must have

• BS in Engineering/Computer Science or relevant work experience in the field
• 4+ years of experience as a Systems or DevOps Engineer
• 2+ years of experience with container orchestration
• Strong knowledge of Unix-based systems
• Strong knowledge of Terraform
• Scripting experience with BASH/Python or the like
• Experience with modern observability tools and the implementation thereof 
• Excellent documentation, communication and troubleshooting skills
• A zeal for coding excellence
• Ability to initiate and complete projects with minimal guidance
• Ability to collaborate with others who may not share your technical opinions
• Willingness to learn and support old architectures

Nice to have

• Experience with Kubernetes
• Experience with EKS Fargate
• Experience with Datadog
• Experience migrating on-prem infrastructure to the cloud
• Experience with Puppet/Ansible
• Experience with routers/switches
• Experience with monitoring/Log collection tools such as Nagios, Prometheus, Grafana, Graylog, Logstash, Kibana and Filebeat

Join Us: 

adMarketplace has been named as one of the best places to work in New York City by Built In and Crain’s- the latter of which have recognized us the past three years straight! AMP is currently experiencing triple digit growth, and it’s never been a better time to join our team!

We offer a robust continuing education program, management training, regular company-wide lunch and learns, and well-defined career paths to ensure all our employees have an opportunity to grow. 

At adMarketplace, we play to win, but we learn from our setbacks. Our commitment to a collaborative environment means no one succeeds alone, and no one fails alone either.   

 We know you’ve come to expect comprehensive healthcare, wellness programs, paid time off, commuter benefits, and 401k matching from any company, so it’s a good thing we offer all of that and so much more. adMarketplace offers a dog friendly office, Summer Fridays, catered lunches, a fully stocked kitchen, ZogSports teams, happy hours and corporate retreats to encourage a strong work/life balance.