Sr. 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 take ownership over the overall performance and reliability of Raptive’s applications, 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 applications and infrastructure by monitoring availability, capacity, and throughput for a full-stack delivery team.
• Evolve systems by adding reliability and performance  into our applications, infrastructure  and  roadmap.
• Coordinate to re-prioritize or fix critical bugs for support or sales requirements as needed.
• 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 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:

• Typically, 3+ years of experience working on Site Reliability Engineering or DevOps
• Must have extensive knowledge of Docker,  Kubernetes, and Terraform, AWS
• Must have experience in Python or Typescript development as a software engineer/site reliability engineer.
• Experience with Linux operating systems internals and administration
• Ability to communicate effectively vertically and horizontally within the organization via demonstrated written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience running Infrastructure at scale; utilizing Configuration Management and automation to ensure idempotency, ephemerality, and reliability.
• Demonstrated initiative, autonomy, ability to operate amidst uncertainty, ability to create and document new patterns where none exist.

Bonus Skills

• Experience with databases such as PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Elasticsearch
• Working with SaaS products at scale
• Configuration management such as Ansible or Chef
• 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 $140,000-$190,000. 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.