Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Overview

Interested in working on cutting-edge blockchain technology and creating equitable access to the global financial system? Since 2014, the mission-driven team at the Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) has helped fuel the tremendous growth of the Stellar blockchain network, an open-source platform that operates at high-scale today. Developers and companies around the world build on it, and the SDF team is expanding to support the rapidly growing and changing Stellar ecosystem.

You’ll help build and operate the foundation that powers our engineering teams. You’ll ensure the reliability and scalability of our systems, design and improve the infrastructure behind our production environments, and automate operational work so developers can focus on building great products.

• Maintain, improve, scale and secure our AWS/GCP infrastructure and Linux systems.
• Assist our development teams in running, packaging, deploying and troubleshooting applications.
• Work with developers on streamlining deployment processes with Jenkins and other CI/CD tooling.
• Build, maintain, monitor and improve our Kubernetes clusters.
• Work with development teams on migrating applications to Kubernetes.
• Be responsible for maintenance and improvements to multiple internal services, for example Kubernetes, Prometheus, ELK.
• Monitor, triage and respond to alerts in our high availability environments.
• Participate in design and code reviews, and ensure that the foundation for our services is best in class.
• Evaluate new technologies, design and implement as appropriate.
• Identify automation opportunities and implement by creating custom or by using off the shelf solutions.

• 5+ years of experience of working in cloud-based systems operations, as a SRE or Dev Ops engineer.
• First-hand experience with configuration management and infrastructure as code (Ansible, Puppet, Terraform).
• Proficient in utilizing SRE methodologies like capacity planning and disaster recovery testing to ensure the scalability, resilience, and availability of critical services.
• A strong understanding of computer networking, TCP/UDP, load balancing, distributed computing, web services, and the fundamental protocols used by the internet (HTTP, HTTPS, DNS, etc.).
• Experienced in managing production workloads and skilled in using monitoring tools to detect issues early.
• Comfortable with participating in on-call rotations and conducting thorough root cause analyses to keep systems running smoothly.
• Proficiency in at least one programming language.
• Committed to supporting teammates, especially during challenging times, and excited about working in a close-knit, growing team. Approachable, empathetic, and proactive in promoting collaboration and innovation.
• Excels in working independently, demonstrating the ability to accomplish tasks without constant monitoring.
• Production experience building and maintaining Kubernetes clusters.

• Ability to understand Go, Rust, C++ and Type Script source code
• Experience experimenting with AI-driven approaches to operations

We offer competitive pay with a base salary range for this position of $165,000 - $225,000 depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and location. In addition, we offer lumen-denominated grants along with the following perks and benefits:

• Competitive health, dental & vision coverage with most plans covered at 100% for the employee + any dependents
• Flexible time off + 15 company holidays including a company-wide holiday break
• Up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave for both non-birthing and birthing parents, as well as up to 14 weeks of paid pregnancy leave for birthing parents
• Gym reimbursement ($80 per month)
• Life & ADD (up to $50K)
• Short & Long term disability
• 401K with 4% match
• Health & Dependent Care FSA Accounts
• Commuter benefits with $250/month employer contribution
• Health Savings Account (HSA) with monthly employer contribution
• Family building benefits through Kindbody
• Wellbeing benefits (One Medical, Rightway, Headspace)
• L&D budget of $1,500/year
• Daily lunch and snacks in office
• Company retreats

Stellar is more than a…