Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Kentik

Platform Engineering

$186-251k

+ Stock Options

React

AWS

GCP

JavaScript

Python

Kafka

Redis

Bash

Node.js

Postgres

Ruby

Terraform

Jenkins

Ansible

Saltstack

MySQL

Azure

Puppet

Chef

Prometheus

Grafana

Slack

Zoom

Git

JSON

REST API

Senior and Expert level

Remote from US

Network observability, security, and performance

Job no longer available

Network observability, security, and performance

201-500 employees

B2BSecurityNetworkingSaaS

Job no longer available

$186-251k

+ Stock Options

React

AWS

GCP

JavaScript

Python

Kafka

Redis

Bash

Node.js

Postgres

Ruby

Terraform

Jenkins

Ansible

Saltstack

MySQL

Azure

Puppet

Chef

Prometheus

Grafana

Slack

Zoom

Git

JSON

REST API

Senior and Expert level

Remote from US

201-500 employees

B2BSecurityNetworkingSaaS

Company mission

To provide clients with an infrastructure visibility solution to make their business-critical operations run seamlessly.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

While prior experience in a remote environment is not required, we highly value strong collaboration and communication skills, and a high level of independence and autonomy
5+ years of experience in Systems Administration, Datacenter/IT and/or SRE related projects
Experience working with *nix system command line (e.g. ssh, grep, awk)
Detailed understanding of major internet protocols works (tcp/ip, dns, http, TLS)
Experience with or desire to learn about microservices, containers and orchestration
Networking administration experience: concepts such as routing, firewalls (iptables), peering sound familiar
A passion for documenting code, processes, and infrastructure in runbooks and wikis
Strong collaboration and communication skills. Kentik is a fully remote, global company - so we are looking for someone who can work well in an asynchronous environment using tools such as Slack, Zoom, Google Docs, Git, etc
Worked with a configuration management (infrastructure as code) platform such as: Ansible, Puppet, Chef, SaltStack or CFEngine
Worked with metrics monitoring solutions such as grafana, prometheus, and OpenTelemetry
A strong preference towards automation - coding in Bash, Python, Ruby, or Go
Experience with public cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc.) architectures and technologies management using Terraform

What the job involves

Kentik's Platform Engineering group is responsible for storing, enriching, and querying traffic metadata and metrics from the world's largest networks
Our platform actively monitors infrastructure, triggers automated responses to outages and attacks, and plays a critical role in delivering complete network observability to our customers
Our platform ingests trillions of records and serves hundreds of thousands of queries for our users each day
The scale that this group services is tremendous
Platform Engineering consists of 4 teams; (1) Ingest and Storage, (2) Query, (3) Network Data, (4) SRE
As a senior engineer in platform engineering, you will have the opportunity to co-own, design, and implement state of the art reliability engineering to help make sure our data-intensive platform continues to play a critical role for some of the most influential companies on the internet
We have built a team of world-class engineers, network experts, and technology thought leaders in a remote-friendly culture from day one
Ensure our real-time, scalable, microservices-based infrastructure is set up for growth and working efficiently. Our infrastructure runs on our own hardware, across multiple locations as well as all major cloud vendors
Work on tools and processes to better monitor our platform as well ensure its stability through our rapid growth
Deep-diving into diverse topics, from NetFlow and IP routing, to database replication strategies or HTTP optimization
Collaborate with engineering and infrastructure teams on finding solutions from an operational perspective
Contribute code, code reviews and tools or patches to all kinds of existing code
Write design documents or collaborate on colleagues’ docs to introduce new features or changes into our infrastructure
Provide valuable feedback on team goals, projects, and processes. We believe in continuously improving our team

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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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

Top investors

10% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (3.8)

Trustpilot (3.2)

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 HQ

Financial District, San Francisco, CA

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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