Position: Site Reliability Engineer for GIPHY
Company: Proxet
Category: DevOps
Experience required: 3y
English level: upper
Published: 2021-09-01T00:00:00+03:00

GIPHY serves over 7 billion GIFs per day, our mobile products have millions of users, and our API is integrated into some of the biggest digital platforms in the world. You will join a team supporting and scaling the production infrastructure for the delivery of these applications.

Responsibilities:

- Build and manage software delivery, systems integration, and developer support tools
- Design and deploy applications using components of the AWS stack, focusing on high-availability, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery
- Work with developers to troubleshoot, monitor, and optimize microservices to maintain SLOs
- Conduct performance tuning, load testing, optimization of information/data processing, maintenance, and support of production and development environments
- Serve as a technical expert on the most difficult support and troubleshooting problems


REQUIREMENTS:

- 3+ years of experience in Site Reliability or Infrastructure Engineering
- Expert-level knowledge of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) ecosystem
- Strong background in Linux/Unix Administration
- Experience monitoring and supporting 24x7, high availability systems that include web, application and database servers and load balancing systems
- Hands-on experience with a container orchestration system (especially Kubernetes) with experience running, deploying, and debugging containerized microservice deployments in production
- Experience with a scripting language (Python, Ruby, Bash) is required; background in software development (Go, Python, Scala, or Java) is a plus
- Experience with configuration management (Ansible, SaltStack or an equivalent) and defining infrastructure-as-code (Terraform)
- Experience with relational databases (MySQL, Postgres) is required; experience managing and optimizing databases and data models is a plus
- Working knowledge of web servers, proxies, and caches (e.g., Nginx, Varnish, HAProxy)
- Experience with build (Jenkins, Travis) and deployment automation (Spinnaker, CircleCI) tools for managing software delivery
- Experience with log aggregation tools (e.g., Splunk, Elasticsearch, Scalyr)
- Experience with metrics infrastructure tools (e.g., DataDog, New Relic, Prometheus)
- Advanced written and spoken English 

About the project:

GIPHY is the world’s largest platform to search, discover, and create all the GIFs. We're the leading brand in short-form entertainment and visual communication. GIPHY is integrated in iMessage, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter, Tinder, Slack, WhatsApp and many more, serving over 7 billion GIFs daily to over 500 million people across the globe. We are also creating the largest distributed ad platform for short-form media. We’re a creative and passionate group of GIF-obsessed individuals continuing to build out what we believe is the future of communication. We have big goals and are looking for like-minded, talented people to join us.