Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Kentik
Infrastructure
$185-250k
+ Stock options
Network observability, security, and performance
Posted today
Network observability, security, and performance
201-500 employees
Posted today
$185-250k
+ Stock options
201-500 employees
Company mission
To provide clients with an infrastructure visibility solution to make their business-critical operations run seamlessly.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of relevant experience
- An SRE mindset and and the drive to build reliable, easy to operate systems
- Running, scaling, tuning postgres, kafka or other datastores and third-party applications
- Experience building apps and services (i.e. Go or nodejs, GRPC, postgres or mysql)
- Shipped projects from scratch and maintained them over a period of time
- Clear communication, both synchronous and via technical plans
- A practice of instrumenting your services and setting up the right monitoring and alerts
- Passion for building and providing amazing tools and platforms to other engineers
What the job involves
- Kentik is looking for an experienced software engineer with an operational mindset to join our Infrastructure team as a Staff SRE
- This infra team is in charge of the software stack that powers Kentik - from configuration management and orchestration, API and service fabric, to datastores and data pipelines, developer experience and internal observability
- In partnership with our hardware and network operations team, we provide a reliable platform for other engineering teams to build on
- We are an international group of collaborative, experienced developers and operations practitioners, with broad and deep knowledge of networks, systems and applications
- The role is a mix of development and operations
- You will be writing code for internal API services and tools, as well as operating these services in production, along with third-party components like envoy or postgres
- Own, scale and maintain our core infrastructure, both on bare metal deployments and major public clouds; keep everything healthy and up to date
- Bring our overall reliability to new levels, streamline and simplify our stack, and contribute to our efforts automating all the things
- Define and refine our platform offering - reliable, easy to use "paved path" solutions we provide to the rest of the engineering organization
- Identify needs, spec plans, and deliver value to our internal customer teams on an ongoing basis
- Participate in our low-noise on-call rotation, and help other teams with their internal monitoring needs and practices
- Contribute to our nascent efforts to make customer On-Prems a repeatable, scalable product
- Work with the hardware and network operations team to keep our datacenter humming and our systems provisioned
- Collaborate with other engineers in a dynamic, fast-paced and very collaborative remote environment
- Our tech stack:
- Our core data engine and platform are primarily written in Go
- We use Node.js + Express for application serving, and React as our primary UI framework
- We also use some JS and Python for tooling/scripting
- In addition to our own database, we use Postgres, Kafka, Mysql, and Redis
- Internal and public APIs expose both rest/json and gRPC endpoints
- Haproxy, Envoy for API traffic routing and balancing
- Github for source control, PRs, issues
- Jenkins for automated builds
Our take
The rise in internet use has resulted in an often unmanageable amount of network traffic across websites, data centers, and most recently cloud services. The resulting mass of information from this is problematic to interpret and thus difficult to use for troubleshooting and engagement insights.
Kentik provides an integrated network monitoring dashboard for enterprises that helps provide visual data illustrations and insights based on traffic. This allows administrators to identify bottlenecks in their networks, whilst providing opportunities to provide cyber protection and monitor customer experiences.
The Kentik dashboard’s approach to network management is unique due to its focus on the visualization of information. This allows insights regarding network limitations and bottlenecks to be understandable and manageable to enterprises regardless of whether staff has knowledge in networking data.
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Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
10% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Oct 2021
$40m
SERIES C
May 2020
$23.5m
LATE VC
Total funding: $101.7m
Company benefits
- Dental and vision insurance
- Parental leave
- Stock options
- Flexible paid time off
- 401k plan
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
Company values
- The truth is in the traffic
- The network matters more than ever
- It’s not just your own network anymore
- Business context is critical
- Modern networks require a modern approach
- Network teams can be enterprise rock stars
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
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Leadership
Avi Freedman
(CEO)Avi started their career as a Systems Administrator at United Engineers and Constructors, prior to spending 10 years as CEO of Netaxs Internet Services. They founded readnews.com and left their role as CTO of ServerCentral to co-found Kentik in January 2014.
Justin Biegel
(COO)Justin spent almost 4 years as VP of Business Development at InvisbleHand Networks before working as a University of Maryland Researcher for 2 years. After 3 years at Internap, they co-founded Kentik 2014 and serve as COO.
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