Site Reliability Engineer, Stack Overflow
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Public Q&A platform for developers
Job no longer available
Public Q&A platform for developers
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
+ RSUs
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To empower the world to develop technology through collective knowledge.
Role
Who you are
- 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 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
- 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
Desirable
- 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
What the job involves
- 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
- 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
Our take
Stack Overflow is one of the 50 most popular websites worldwide: a Q&A style forum for developers, gamified with upvotes, downvotes, and badges, with over 14 million registered users and upwards of 21 million questions. It's grown to become a go-to resource in the community.
The site has proven a good springboard into providing other knowledge sharing services too - most notable among which is the company’s teams platform. This, along with advertising and jobs listings make for a strong revenue model that saw the company valued at well over $1B when it was acquired back in 2021.
This pricey acquisition means Stack Overflow has a secure buffer it can use to expand. This is taking the form of partnerships with Google Cloud to boost GenAI capabilities, growing its global product audience so it can boost revenue - as things stand, its team's platform is used mainly in the US. If Stack Overflow can get a foothold in developing countries like India and Brazil, it could continue its strong history of impressive growth.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
38% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Jul 2020
$85m
SERIES E
Sep 2015
$40m
SERIES D
Total funding: $209.1m
Company benefits
- Focus on well-being: We provide full health coverage for you and your family. That means that Stack Overflow pays 100% of your premiums. Additionally, we provide supplemental benefits such as telemedicine options
- Out of state care: We will reimburse up to $5,000 annually for the participant undergoing treatment or a procedure considered unlawful within their home state, plus a companion
- Work where you want: We have a remote-friendly culture. Before the pandemic we were 40% remote. Today, we’re over 80% permanently remote and won’t require employees to return to an office if they don’t want to. We believe people do their best work when they love where they work
- Work how you want: While we’re fully remote, we’re supporting all employees with home office reimbursements and internet stipends. We also encourage employees to set their working hours on their calendar and in Slack to encourage flexibility
- Take care of loved ones: We offer paid parental leave, a meal stipend, and the primary caregiver has the option to come back to work part time for up to one year. We also have a special caregiver policy due to the pandemic
- Keep learning & growing: Access to a personal and professional coach on a 1:1 basis to help develop your career. Additionally, all employees have annual tuition reimbursement, professional development budget for continuing education, conferences, and memberships, in order to advance their skills and knowledge
- Stay fit & have fun: We provide employees monthly fitness reimbursements as well as host regular yoga and meditation classes during the work day. That’s in addition to regular virtual cooking classes, “bev bashes” (what we call happy hours), and more
- Stack Gives Back: We care deeply for our employees and provide paid time off to encourage their voluntary involvement in and support of programs that positively impact the quality of life within the communities in which we live
Company HQ
Financial District, New York, NY
Leadership
Previously a VP at Barclay's Investment Bank. They then worked their way through various senior-level positions at Rackspace Technology, ultimately serving as SVP & GM of Cloud and Infrastructure Services.
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