Site Reliability Engineer

Sprout Social•Chicago, IL

10h•Remote

About The Position

Sprout Social is looking to hire a Site Reliability Engineer to the Engineering team. Why join Sprout’s Engineering team? With collaborative cross-functional teams that span mobile, front-end, back-end and site reliability engineering—the Sprout Engineering team is a place to sharpen your craft and solve hard problems with the smartest people in the industry. On a daily basis, we process tens of billions of requests and tens of billions of asynchronous events. We also ingest billions of social messages every day, and ship more than 1,000 production deployments every month. You’ll get to work on a "tech-giant" scale with smaller, supportive teams where every engineer has the chance to make an impact on our company, and our customers. The best part? In our industry, you often have to switch jobs or even companies to learn a new part of a tech stack or business. But at Sprout, our product is a suite, so you just need to move teams. You’re able to diversify your skills, which not only benefits your team—but also your career. What you’ll do Design and build reliable, scalable, and performant systems that support Sprout’s global 30,000+ customer base across 100+ countries Drive infrastructure initiatives that enable product teams to deliver value quickly and safely through shared, production-ready tools and platforms ("Paved Roads") Work to improve Sprout’s security posture through automation, auditability, and clear processes in order to build sustainable and secure solutions Collaborate cross-functionally with product, site reliability engineering, data platform, and GRC teams to deliver scalable, secure-by-default infrastructure Investigate and learn from system failures and incidents to improve overall system resilience Contribute to security tooling deployments and maintenance to improve overall security posture What you’ll bring We are looking for a creative, collaborative, highly motivated, and pragmatic engineer with an understanding of cloud security concepts to help us design and build reliable, scalable, secure systems that empower engineers to rapidly and safely deliver value to our customers. If you're interested in growing your security engineering skills and want to be on a team that has a huge impact across all of engineering, we'd love to talk with you!

Requirements

1+ years of experience building and maintaining reliable systems in a Linux/Unix environment
1+ years experience with one or more infrastructure-as-code or configuration-as-code tools, such as: Terraform, Chef, Ansible, SaltStack, etc.
1+ years experience in writing code for automation in one programming language, such as Python, Java, Golang, or Ruby
1+ years experience with cloud platforms and understanding of cloud security concepts

Nice To Haves

2+ years experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Experience with cloud security tools such as WAF, IAM, AWS Config, or similar
Experience with building CI/CD Pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, Gitlab, Github Actions, etc.
Familiarity with security tooling such as CNAPP, CWPP, CSPM, IDS/IPS, or similar

Responsibilities

Design and build reliable, scalable, and performant systems that support Sprout’s global 30,000+ customer base across 100+ countries
Drive infrastructure initiatives that enable product teams to deliver value quickly and safely through shared, production-ready tools and platforms ("Paved Roads")
Work to improve Sprout’s security posture through automation, auditability, and clear processes in order to build sustainable and secure solutions
Collaborate cross-functionally with product, site reliability engineering, data platform, and GRC teams to deliver scalable, secure-by-default infrastructure
Investigate and learn from system failures and incidents to improve overall system resilience
Contribute to security tooling deployments and maintenance to improve overall security posture

Benefits

Comprehensive Health & Wellness: Premium BCBSIL medical, dental (high/low plans), and vision (Eyemed) insurance for you and your eligible dependents.
Premium Mental Health Support: Full, free access to Modern Health for you and your dependents, including coaching, therapy sessions, and digital wellness resources.
Retirement Savings: 401(k) plan with a 50% company match on your first 6% of contributions (a 3% total match).
Financial Security: 100% employer-paid Life and Disability insurance for your peace of mind.
Flexible Paid Time Off: A flexible PTO policy, supplemented with additional company-wide Rest & Recharge days throughout the year.
Paid Parental Leave: Up to 16 weeks of paid leave for new parents to support you in expanding your family.
Annual Lifestyle Stipend: A $1,000 USD annual Lifestyle Spending Account to spend on your physical, mental, and financial well-being.
Work From Home Support: A one-time $550 USD stipend to set up your home office, plus a monthly $50 USD stipend for internet.
Giving Back: 16 hours of paid volunteer time annually, plus a $100 annual match for your charitable donations.
Additional Financial Perks: Access to pre-tax commuter benefits, subsidized child/eldercare (Care.com), discounted pet insurance (Figo), and no-cost personalized financial wellness support through Your Money Line .