Site Reliability Engineer

Raptive is looking for a high-performance, experienced engineer to be a part of a team of Site Reliability Engineers. You will be working closely with engineering teams, product managers and internal stakeholders to build the future of the Raptive Platform Reliability. 

As a member of the Site Reliability Engineering team, you will participate in the overall performance and reliability of Raptive’s infrastructure, the robustness of the deployment pipeline, as well as timely and effective incident response and resolution. You will take responsibility for the growth and stability of Raptive’s infrastructure, and be a key player driving effective incident response and overall issue avoidance.

What you’ll be doing:

• Responsible for ongoing reliability and robustness of Raptive’s production infrastructure by monitoring availability, capacity, and throughput.
• Evolve systems by adding reliability into our product roadmap.
• Coordinate the re-prioritize or fix critical bugs for support or sales requirements as needed.
• Make recommendations to production infrastructure by interfacing with engineering to ensure 100% availability.
• Ensure scalable artifacts deployment to all environments by automation scripts and tooling..
• Maintain and expand core infrastructure tools and frameworks ( Configuration Management, IAM, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, Monitoring, HA, kubernetes, Helm, Flux, etc )
• Constantly monitor infrastructure vulnerabilities and remedy them by working with the security and site reliability team.
• Craft and implement processes to reduce friction and enable all team members to spend their time on what they do best.
• Think creatively, work collaboratively, and do whatever it takes to get the job done.

The skills and experience you bring to the job:

• Prior experience working on Software Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering or DevOps
• Ability to communicate effectively vertically and horizontally within the organization via demonstrated written and verbal communication skills.

Bonus Skills:

• Demonstrable knowledge of Python, Typescript, or other higher-level OOP languages 
• Working knowledge of Kubernetes and Terraform
• Knowledge of one of major cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP and Azure
• Experience in Python or Shell scripting
• Experience with Linux operating systems internals and administration
• Experience with databases such as PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Elasticsearch
• Working with SaaS products at scale
• Configuration management such as Ansible
• Networking experience (VPC, VPN)

About Raptive 

Raptive’s mission is to power creator independence. We’re a creator company that provides revenue, audience, business solutions, and much more for creators and enterprise publishers. Since the very beginning of digital content creation, we’ve been allies and advocates for every kind of creator and charted the uncharted to help creators grow their businesses through it all. 

Today we are the catalyst for 5,000+ of the world’s most premium creators on the open web and rank as the tenth-largest digital property in the U.S. Creators who choose Raptive are premium content creators, trendsetters, iconic brands, and charismatic personalities, captivating more than 78% of U.S. audiences on their sites alone with the power to move and disrupt culture. They collectively rank #1 in Food, Family, Home, and Lifestyle--with a reach of more than 182M monthly unique visitors and more than half a billion followers across social platforms.

Creators are the future of media. And together, the future is ours to create. 

The base salary range for this position is $130,000-$165,000. The range provided is Raptive’s reasonable estimate of the annualized base compensation for this role. The actual amount may be higher or lower, based on non-discriminatory factors such as experience, geographic location, knowledge, skills and abilities. This role is eligible for additional  incentive compensation that isn’t included in the posted range.

For more information, visit www.Raptive.com or follow us on LinkedIn or Instagram.

Raptive is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. We believe we are most impactful when people with a wide range of backgrounds, experiences, and identities come together with a common purpose. We encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply. Raptive is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please reach out to a member of our recruiting team.