Site Reliability Engineering Lead, GoPro
$158.9-249k
+ Equity, benefits, and a discretionary bonus may be additional forms of compensation for this role
Extreme action cameras and video software
Job no longer available
Extreme action cameras and video software
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
$158.9-249k
+ Equity, benefits, and a discretionary bonus may be additional forms of compensation for this role
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To help the world to capture and share itself in immersive and exciting ways.
Role
Who you are
- We are looking for an exceptional hands-on contributor with 8+ years of demonstrable experience and a degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or another quantitative field
- You practice a rigorous, metrics-driven approach to reliability engineering
- You have substantial experience operating 24x7 production web services serving millions of customers
- You have familiarity with our core technical stack or their equivalents, including AWS, Kubernetes, Datadog, Ruby on Rails, and Python
- You have a significant background in software engineering and/or systems engineering
- You are familiar with proven design patterns and common approaches to solving scale challenges in distributed data and network systems
- You are a strong problem solver with meticulous attention to detail who can advocate for novel solutions to entrenched problems
- You’re skilled in written and verbal English communication skills with an ability to communicate in a clear, collaborative, open-minded, and effective manner with both technical and non-technical peers
What the job involves
- The Infrastructure Engineering team is responsible for building and maintaining cloud architectures that power GoPro’s subscription business and photo & video storage services
- Behind every GoPro mobile app session and every automatic upload from a GoPro camera are compute, network, and data services that we operate for a global customer base
- From developing and maintaining infrastructure code in Terraform to building the next generation of developer platform tools, we enable the delivery of software that sets GoPro apart
- Technical Lead for a small group of engineers working closely with Product and Engineering teams to design reliability and observability into new software releases
- Champion initiatives across our teams that continually improve the reliability, observability, and price-performance of cloud services
- Own sustainable incident response, escalation, and postmortem processes across the organization
- Partner with infrastructure owners to enable, plan and execute zero-downtime upgrades and maintenance activities
- Own cloud cost tracking and cost optimization initiatives
- Set an example with excellent operational documentation and tested procedures
- Communicate across verticals to define key business metrics, and work with infrastructure and development teams toward measuring 100% of those metrics
- Ensure regular testing of cloud systems for performance and failure resiliency to SLA
- Participate in on-call rotations as secondary support
Our take
GoPro is a global leader in the field of action cameras. It has enjoyed remarkable success since its founding in 2002, and has expanded its offering to include additional apps and video editing software.
The market for cameras is fast-moving, with constant updates and innovations in technology and applications keeping it competitive. GoPro’s constant focus on new features and accessories, as well as its extensive name recognition, has helped the company retain a dominant market share. Similarly, GoPro has been smart to carve itself a niche that expressly excludes competition from swiftly improving smartphone cameras, as nobody wants to take their iPhone down a whitewater rapid.
This has, to date, kept GoPro’s sales growth ahead of competitors. GoPro is attentive to the constant possibility of game-changing new tech and competing products and should have the resources and talent to stay robustly abreast of the pack.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
7% employee growth in 12 months
Trustpilot (1.3)
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Dec 2012
$200m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
May 2011
$88m
SERIES A
Total funding: $288.2m
Company benefits
- Get your very own GoPro camera + gear
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance – premiums are 100% paid for employees, 80% paid for dependents
- Life insurance and disability benefits
- Generous time off policy
- 12 weeks paid parental leave for new parents
- Pre-tax and Roth 401(k) options
- Discounted employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
- LiveHealthy monthly wellness reimbursement
- Innovative remote-friendly wellness classes and events
- Flexible work arrangements
- Professional + personal development opportunities, i.e. LinkedIn Learning
- Opportunities to get involved in the causes that you care about (annual camera donation + volunteer events)
Company HQ
Western Hills, San Mateo, CA
Leadership
Nicholas Woodman
(CEO & Owner)Received a degree in Visual Arts from the University of California, San Diego. Founder of Fun Bug. Sold Fun Bug and then traveled the world surfing, which inspired them to found GoPro in 2002.
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