Staff Software Engineer, Site Reliability

Babylist

144d • $199,200 - $239,040

About The Position

Babylist is looking for a Staff Software Engineer, Site Reliability to join our Platform team. In this position, you will play a vital role in ensuring our systems and services' stability, scalability, and reliability. You will work closely with all Babylist Engineering teams to support shared infrastructure and developer tools. Your expertise in site reliability engineering, AWS cloud infrastructure, and modern DevOps practices will be instrumental in optimizing our systems and driving continuous improvement.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience as a Site Reliability Engineer or similar role.
• Experience supporting high-traffic consumer-facing websites.
• Proficiency with Terraform.
• Strong experience working with AWS cloud-based infrastructure and services.
• Proficiency with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Solid understanding of cloud-native systems design.
• Experience designing and supporting CI systems such as CircleCI, Jenkins, or GitHub Actions.
• Familiarity with monitoring and alerting best practices.
• Proven experience in on-call management best practices.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with monitoring tools like Datadog, Cronitor, Sentry, and PagerDuty.
• Attention to detail.

Responsibilities

• Manage and build our AWS infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform.
• Ensure that our EKS clusters and databases are running up-to-date versions, optimizing performance and reliability.
• Improve the speed and reliability of our Continuous Integration (CI) systems to support the entire Engineering Team.
• Provide support to developers in troubleshooting issues across local development, staging, and production environments.
• Establish, communicate, and support best practices for monitoring and alerting.

Benefits

• Company paid medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• Generous paid parental leave policy.
• 401(k) with company match.
• Flexible spending accounts.
• Paid leave, including PTO and parental leave.
• Equity and bonus opportunities.

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Senior
• Number of Employees: 251-500 employees