Staff Software Engineer (SRE) - Slack
Slack
- Texas
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Design, develop, and maintain infrastructure in Terraform for Quip and Slack products
- Evaluate, implement, and maintain high-quality tools and processes to maintain highly secure and observable infrastructure and environments.
- Clear verbal and written communication to consult with engineering partners to properly scale and maintain cost structures to align with infrastructure utilization.
- Use your deep desire to reduce toil to create product and infrastructure stability.
- Deep experience with cloud providers AWS preferred (VPC/Subnet design, IAM, WAF, ECR, ECS, EKS, RDS, Aurora)
- A deep understanding of Unix/Linux system administration
- Deep experience with Terraform
- Experience with in-memory data stores
- Your career and skills with development and, or systems has been honed professionally for 7+ years
- You are a strong communicator. Explaining complex technical concepts to program managers, customer support, and other engineers are no problem for you
- You are experienced with creating internal tools, understand the software development lifecycle, and have a bias towards automation to eliminate toil.
- You are someone that others enjoy working with due to your positive attitude and technical competence
- You are a team player and get motivated by helping other engineers succeed. When things break — and they will — you are eager and able to help fix things. You like thinking of ways to improve efficiency or bring delight to the people you work with
- You are a self-starter and problem solver encouraged by continuous improvement and learning.
- You are motivated by finding optimizations that reduce costs, improve efficiency, and support the long term viability of your team and organization.
- Experience with containerization (ECS, Docker, and Kubernetes)
- A firm grasp of computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, programming languages, distributed systems, and information retrieval
- You have deep experience with Redis clustering
- Experience implementing single sign-on systems
- Experience implementing tools using Lambda
- Experience managing Kubernetes ( EKS)
- You’ve used Slack and Quip and are excited to make them better.