Senior Site Reliability Engineer, NGINX
$144.8-217.2k
Open source software for web serving
Job no longer available
Open source software for web serving
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
$144.8-217.2k
101-200 employees
Company mission
Nginx's mission is to empower creators of the new digital world by offering a suite of technologies for developing and delivering modern applications.
Role
Who you are
- Experience setting up and using incident and on-call management systems
- Experience setting up and building tools to collect and visualize data (logs, metrics, alerts), building dashboards, alerting, and monitoring systems
- Experience with deploying secure infrastructure and services in one or more cloud environments such as AWS or Azure
- Experience with configuration management and deployment automation tools, such as Terraform, Ansible, Packer, etc
- Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python and Bash
- Strong understanding and experience working with CI/CD pipeline frameworks (Gitlab-CI, GitHub Actions, etc.)
- Experience with container (Docker) and orchestration systems (Kubernetes)
- Solid understanding of Linux OS + systems administration skills
- Good understanding of networking fundamentals: TCP/IP, HTTP, DNS, load balancing, firewalling, etc
- Excellent analytical and trouble-shooting skills
- Dynamic collaborator who thrives in diverse, geographically distributed locales
- Team player that demonstrates diplomacy, promotion of sound ideas & concepts, paired with the desire to help others grow their skills
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Experience with NGINX technologies a strong plus
Desirable
- Bachelor's (or higher level) degree in one or more of these disciplines: Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related fields
- 3+ years of professional experience as a SRE or Devops engineer
What the job involves
- Work with engineering team to design, build, maintain and support SaaS-based services. This includes being part of the on-call rotation, performing first-level of triage for issues reported from multiple sources (monitoring and alerting systems, customer bugs, support issues), interfacing with the development team to ensure we have proper coverage and resolution, etc
- Ensure that the SaaS services and associated infrastructure maintain required levels of security, availability, reliability, scalability, and performance to meet SLAs
- Build incident management, operational monitoring, and alerting capabilities to proactively report, troubleshoot, and fix problems
- Assist in achieving and maintaining industry security audit certifications (ISO, SOC2, HIPAA, etc.)
- Build automation around the infrastructure and services used in product development, testing, and CI/CD pipelines
- Research modern technology areas, innovations, and ideas
Our take
NGINX is an open source web server that has become very popular in recent years. Coming later to the market than other familiar names such as Apache and Microsoft, NGINX has rapidly increased its market share and is now the web server of choice for many top businesses such as Salesforce, Google, IBM, Twitter, Apple and Intel. F5 Networks acquired NGINX in 2019 for $670 million.
Subject to some controversy, F5 Networks was sued by Lynwood Investments shortly after the buyout. Lynwood claimed that the NGINX software was developed while the originators were working for Rambler, a Russian technology firm, and so they believed the NGINX software belonged to them. However, the case was dismissed with a leave to amend due to statutes of limitation.
This doesn’t seem to have significantly negatively affected NGINX as the business continues to add to its product portfolio to create a complete suite of applications that covers everything from application delivery to security and monitoring.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
1% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Dental, vision and life insurance
- 401(K)
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
Company HQ
Yerba Buena, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Gus Robertson
(CEO, not founder)Over 20 years of experience in IT and a successful track record building high performing sales organization such as Visio Corporation and Red Hat. Joined as CEO in 2012.
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