Site Reliability Engineer

We're targeting candidates in the UK and Germany for this role.

Stack Overflow is growing fast, and our infrastructure needs keep getting bigger as our products  scale and grow. We’re looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to join our existing team of SREs and developers to help us grow our cloud infrastructure as we transition away from our on-premise footprint. As an SRE, you will collaborate with application development teams to identify gaps and opportunities to improve reliability across our products, always looking for ways to automate manual work, and create repeatable, scalable systems and processes. We want you to suggest solutions and build tools to measure and monitor the reliability for our products.

We’re looking for someone with experience in a .NET ecosystem in an Azure environment, but are also open to folks who have non-Azure cloud experience, and are willing to learn Azure. We don’t expect you to know every other part of our stack coming in, so we’ll pair you with other members of the team to learn and develop your skills across our entire infrastructure (including our non-cloud stackoverflow.com infrastructure).  We operate in a mixed Windows and Linux environment, and expect someone in this role to have experience with one environment, and a working understanding of the other. Experience with either Networking/VPN, Elasticsearch, Redis, Azure automation or Terraform are a plus, but we’re happy to train you.

What you’ll work on:

• Help scale our hosted Stack Overflow Teams offering.
• Manage a high-quality production platform and promotion pipeline that ensures capacity for our Teams (Free/Basic/Business/Enterprise) customers.
• Reduce toil through software solutions and removing or automating manual tasks, steps and workflows as we further streamline deployments and upgrades.
• Improve the observability of our systems to help identify issues or bottlenecks by iterating on our monitoring and alerting strategies.
• Improve our security lifecycle and compliance strategy for cloud solutions.
• Participate in our on-call rotation (typically 1 fortnight out of 2 months).
• Partner closely with your peers to accomplish goals within an agile software development lifecycle.

Our current ecosystem includes:

• Microsoft Azure
• Terraform, PowerShell, Go
• Windows Server, IIS and .NET Core
• Linux
• Our toolchain includes: GitHub, Octopus Deploy, ElasticSearch, Redis, ArgoCD, ArgoWF, Cloudsmith
• Containerization with Kubernetes

Skills & Requirements

If you don't meet all of these exact qualifications, we encourage you to apply anyway!

We’re looking for:

• Experience writing software solutions in a high-level programming language (for example, but not limited to, Python, Golang, C#).
• An understanding of software development lifecycle phases, from planning and development through production deployment and monitoring.
• Willingness to learn new technologies and adapt to changing priorities.
• Eagerness and ability to work with different types of functional groups, share knowledge, collaborate and contribute. This is particularly important given our remote first environment.
• Demonstrated understanding of basic concepts in a cloud environment.

We like to see:

• Experience with scripting languages (Bash, Powershell).
• Experience with Azure or equivalent Amazon AWS, Google Cloud, etc.
• Experience with automating repetitive tasks.
• SQL experience (Microsoft SQL Server or Azure SQL a plus)
• Experience with terraform or similar IaC tools
• Containerization technologies (Docker, Swarm, Kubernetes)
• An understanding of service level indicators and service level objectives