Site Reliability Engineer, Sketch
Digital design tool
Job no longer available
Digital design tool
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
201-500 employees
Company mission
To help everyone design incredible things.
Role
Who you are
- Professional experience managing Linux-based and cloud-native distributed systems
- Experience coding with high-level programming languages like Python for technical operations tasks and services automation
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, and configuration management tools to automate manual operations
- A good understanding of the HTTP protocol and the behavior of production web services
- Excellent communication skills and a good written and spoken English
- Based in EU or UK
- Above all, you seek operational excellence and apply the best engineering practices possible
- You care about security, code quality, scalability, performance, and simplicity
- Not everything that you or your team do can be perfect, but you make sure that you always know the trade-offs
- You back your decisions with arguments
- You don't care for hype and always try to find the best solution and technology for the job and its context
What the job involves
- As a Site Reliability Engineer at Sketch, you will focus on shaping our cloud infrastructure and make sure all the pieces work well together: development environments, metrics processing and observability, security policies, network design, deployment strategies, high availability, etc
- Managing and helping autoscale our Renderfarm that currently processes more than 100k documents daily, using M1 Mac Minis
- Helping to design, maintain and battle test our real-time collaboration features, making sure we offer an incredible experience for our customers by extracting each ounce of performance from all layers of the stack: from HTTP requests, caching and WebSockets, to backend autoscaling and database performance
- Mproving our continuous deployment pipeline by designing and setting up fully automated ephemeral test environments comprising all the different application and cloud pieces
- Setting up, debugging and owning enterprise-oriented features such as Single-Sign-On and full-featured Sketch document embedding
- Working towards achieving full platform observability through curated metrics and actionable alerts, using the best open-source tools for the job
Our take
Sketch is a digital design company that is comprised of two apps, a native Mac app for designing, and a web app for sharing, feedback, and developer handoff. Being a Mac native app means two things - the first being that all optimisation and innovation efforts can be focused on one single operating system, and the second being that Windows users are unable to utilise the company’s design tool (though they are able to access the web-based features).
The company faced certain challenges in late 2022 in the process of refocusing the company as a response to changing market conditions, with Sketch deciding to move forward with a smaller team. However, the company has doubled down on its efforts to focus on providing the best product experience for users. Sketch certainly has a number of growth opportunities ahead, as it continues to build and expand its capabilities.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-23% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (1 round)
Mar 2019
$20m
SERIES A
Total funding: $20m
Company benefits
- Flexibility - Work when makes best for you with no set work hours
- 100% Remote
- Company Equity
- Unlimited Vacation - Plus extra time for honeymoons, moving and starting a family
- Hardware & Software Provided
- Home Office Budget
- Professional Development & Learning Budget
- Annual Meetup
Company HQ
100% Remote
Leadership
Pieter Omvlee
(CEO)Co-Founded Sketch in 2010.
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