Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure

Our Operations team is searching for a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to join them in maintaining, scaling, and optimizing our globally distributed infrastructure. We’re looking for someone comfortable in an SRE/DevOps-style role who wants to engage with the entire product development cycle.

This position reports directly to our Principal Software Engineer in Infrastructure and Operations.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain shared tools and infrastructure used by product and engineering teams
• Measure SLIs and take necessary action to make systems meet organizational SLOs
• Participate in on-call rotation to analyze and repair production-critical issues as they arise
• Champion process improvements and automation to reduce toil and improve operational health
• Drive continuous improvement of existing systems and tooling (testing, monitoring, alerting, security, release, etc.)
• Provide input to help other engineering teams design reliable and maintainable systems
• Help define standards, guidelines, and best practices

Requirements: 

• 5+ years of relevant experience 
• Experience operating and maintaining distributed systems
• Functional knowledge of Linux and Kubernetes
• Proficiency in any programming language
• Familiarity with SRE principles and practices
• First principles approach to problem solving
• Strive for simplicity, but comfortable with complexity
• Love of learning, exploration, and growth

Bonus Points: 

• Experience with any of the following:
• Public cloud platforms (e.g. GCP, AWS, Azure)
• Infrastructure as code (e.g. Terraform, Terragrunt, Chef, Puppet, Ansible)
• Monitoring and alerting (e.g. Prometheus, Thanos, Cortex, VictoriaMetrics, Alertmanager, Grafana)
• Logging (e.g. Fluentbit, Logstash, Loki, Elasticsearch, OpenSearch)
• Databases and caches (e.g. MySQL, PostgreSQL, Vertica, Aerospike, BigQuery, Memcache)
• Data pipelines (e.g. Kafka, Spark, Airflow)
• Design and implementation of Kubernetes custom resources and controllers
• Active contributor to open source and cloud-native community
• Fluent in Go (aka Golang)

Perks:

• Competitive salary and equity compensation
• Free medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Work from home stipend each paycheck
• 401k matching and employee stock purchase plan
• Flexible time off - take time when you need it
• AppLovin provides a competitive total compensation package with a pay-for-performance rewards approach.

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