Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Hosting Infrastructure

Location Details:

This is a remote position, so you’ll be working remotely from your home. You may occasionally visit a GoDaddy office to meet with your team for events or meetings.

Join our team...

The Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) will work on a team of other SREs in GoDaddy’s Hosting BU to build and maintain a performant, cost-conscious, scalable, reliable, maintainable, and secure platform for more than a million WordPress sites on AWS and on-prem OpenStack infrastructure. You seek to automate, instrument, and make data-driven decisions. You will work with other teams to solve security requirements; maintain useful documentation; and resolve production issues through effective troubleshooting and debugging. You will work independently to solve novel issues and evaluate/implement new technologies. You will proactively identify and resolve deficiencies and cost savings measures with the platform. While very capable of working independently, you will also work with other team members to move through blockers quickly. The ideal SRE welcomes and gives honest feedback, and incorporates this feedback into improving the quality of your work and the platform as a whole.

What you'll get to do...

• Design and build the next-generation hosting platform for Managed WordPress.
• Work in a team applying Agile methodologies to maintain a fast pace and deliver high-quality work.
• Create and maintain tooling for efficient operation of the platform.
• Evaluate technology choices for large-scale and cost-effective delivery of platform needs.
• Monitor and resolve security issues, build with a security champion mindset.
• Work with developers, operations, and support to debug complex cloud, OS, application, and networking issues.
• Write and maintain documentation, runbooks, and other resources to maintain high-quality of knowledge standards.
• Work inter-team to resolve requirements and dependencies.
• Design operationally reliable, repeatable solutions for customer/business problems.

Your experience should include...

• 5+ years experience in a related role (SRE, SDE, DevOps, Network Engineer, System Administrator, etc.).
• A passion for delivering a great customer experience.
• Adaptability to learn new technologies.
• A security-first approach during all phases of the product life cycle.
• Intermediate-level experience with most of the following technologies: AWS (especially EC2, RDS, CDK), Docker, Linux, Bash, Nomad, NGINX, PHP, at least one other programming language, networking, WordPress, MySQL, Grafana, Git, Elastic, Ansible, Redis, OpenStack.
• Strong sense of ownership, ethics, and integrity.

We've got your back...  We offer a range of total rewards that may include paid time off, retirement savings (e.g., 401k, pension schemes), bonus/incentive eligibility, equity grants, participation in our employee stock purchase plan, competitive health benefits, and other family-friendly benefits including parental leave. GoDaddy’s benefits vary based on individual role and location and can be reviewed in more detail during the interview process.

We also embrace our diverse culture and offer a range of Employee Resource Groups (Culture). Have a side hustle? No problem. We love entrepreneurs! Most importantly, come as you are and make your own way. 

About us...  GoDaddy is empowering everyday entrepreneurs around the world by providing the help and tools to succeed online, making opportunity more inclusive for all. GoDaddy is the place people come to name their idea, build a professional website, attract customers, sell their products and services, and manage their work. Our mission is to give our customers the tools, insights, and people to transform their ideas and personal initiative into success. To learn more about the company, visit About Us. 

At GoDaddy, we know diverse teams build better products—period. Our people and culture reflect and celebrate that sense of diversity and inclusion in ideas, experiences and perspectives. But we also know that’s not enough to build true equity and belonging in our communities. That’s why we prioritize integrating diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging principles into the core of how we work every day—focusing not only on our employee experience, but also our customer experience and operations. It’s the best way to serve our mission of empowering entrepreneurs everywhere, and making opportunity more inclusive for all. To read more about these commitments, as well as our representation and pay equity data, check out our Diversity and Pay Parity annual report which can be found on our Diversity Careers page.

GoDaddy is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. GoDaddy will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with local and federal requirements. Refer to our full EEO policy.

Our recruiting team is available to assist you in completing your application. If they could be helpful, please reach out to myrecruiter@godaddy.com. 

GoDaddy doesn’t accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or employment agencies.