Principal Site Reliability Engineer, ThousandEyes

Datastores

$176-314.2k

+ Annual bonuses

AWS

Kubernetes

Python

Linux

Terraform

Unix

Senior and Expert level

San Francisco Bay Area

1-5 days a week in office

Internet and Cloud Intelligence Platform

Job no longer available

Internet and Cloud Intelligence Platform

501-1000 employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceEnterpriseBig dataNetworkingMachine LearningSaaSData AnalysisCloud Computing

Job no longer available

$176-314.2k

+ Annual bonuses

AWS

Kubernetes

Python

Linux

Terraform

Unix

Senior and Expert level

San Francisco Bay Area

1-5 days a week in office

501-1000 employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceEnterpriseBig dataNetworkingMachine LearningSaaSData AnalysisCloud Computing

Company mission

ThousandEyes empowers enterprises to see, understand and improve digital experiences for their customers and employees.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

Deep knowledge of datastores. You have experience building and supporting mission critical datastores, and be happy talking relational and nosql. You are able to ensure that the ThousandEyes platform’s services are using the right datastores infrastructure, designed and optimized for availability, latency and performance
Strong technical vision. You can collaborate with and beyond the team to formulate a compelling vision for the systems the team owns. You have the communication skills to sell it and to make sure it is represented in the team’s strategy and roadmap
Expert in reliability. This is a hands-on role, so you will be excited by the opportunity to write software, automate and build reliable systems in order to enable our datastores to scale effortlessly. Think self service. You will have many examples of successfully delivering complex systems
Natural collaborator. It takes a village to do anything worthwhile, and you’re happy working across Engineering and Product Management to help shape the future direction of the platform’s datastores
Effective mentor. You have a passion to up-level the team and those around you. You are open to learning as well…nobody is an expert at everything
Ability to design and implement scalable and well tested solutions, with focus on datastores
Ability to write high quality code in Python, Go, or equivalent languages
Strong Infrastructure as Code skills, ideally with Terraform and Kubernetes
Good knowledge of cloud provider managed services (ideally AWS), and how they can be leveraged in our context
Good understanding of Unix/Linux systems, the kernel, system libraries, file systems, and client-server protocols
Strong communication and documentation skills

What the job involves

The Datastores team is focused on running our platform’s mission critical datastores (think ElasticSearch, Kafka, MongoDB, MySQL, etc). The team is responsible for all aspects of our platform’s datastores reliability, such as availability, performance, change management, capacity planning, monitoring and emergency response
As a Principal Site Reliability you will focus on innovating and providing strong technical vision as well as work with the team to build reliable, scalable and highly available datastores on a constantly growing multi-region scale platform
You will partner with leaders across ThousandEyes as a datastores subject matter expert to help design the best architectures and processes, and be a role model for the Engineering team in delivery and team work
We’re looking for a reliability-focused engineering leader to focus on automation and help drive datastores operational excellence to a new level. With evergrowing volumes of data and operating at a multi-region scale this is an opportunity for you to join a team and help take the ThousandEyes platform’s datastores to a new level

Application process

The Application Window is expected to close on 4/10/25. However, the job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received

Our take

ThousandEyes uses synthetic monitoring probes to measure network performance, allowing IT teams to collate data across network hops while algorithms flag potential sources of disruption like DNS and VoIP exploits, BGP vulnerabilities, and outages.

According to ThousandEyes, what sets it apart from the competition is its ability to monitor operations over third-party datacenters with pre-provisioned infrastructure-as-a-service vantage points.

They're seeing a lot of traction with large companies in the US, with customers like Box, PayPal and Slack. Companies like their products because they deliver mission-critical visibility into every network these companies rely on.

That reputation caused the company to become an acquisition for Cisco in 2020. Now the startup is part of the IT giant, it has benefitted from a multitude of sectors increasing their reliance on digital services and cloud-oriented strategies.

Freddie

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

Top investors

23% female employees

39% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (4.7)

Company

Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)

Feb 2019

$50m

SERIES D

Feb 2016

$35m

SERIES C

Total funding: $110.5m

Company benefits

Medical, dental and vision insurance for you and your family
Charitable gift matching program
Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
Retirement Planning
Paid Time Off, Volunteering Time Off, Birthday Day Off and Emergency Time Off
Company-wide year-end shutdown to recharge
Family planning assistance and generous parental leave
Work from home opportunities

Company HQ

Mission Bay, San Francisco, CA

Leadership

Mohit Lad

(CEO)

Previously a Senior Engineer at Nokia. Started career as a researcher in Computer Science at UCLA.

Ricardo Oliveira

(CTO)

Has a PhD in Computer Science from UCLA.

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