Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Focal
$170-190k
Plus stock options
1-2 days a week in office
Retail automation & optimization
Be an early applicant
Retail automation & optimization
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
$170-190k
Plus stock options
1-2 days a week in office
21-100 employees
Company mission
To lower the cost of living for all mankind by automating and optimizing brick and mortar retail with the latest advancements in AI.
Role
Who you are
- Solid experience in an infrastructure or Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) role
- Hands-on experience with containerization (Docker) and orchestration platforms (Kubernetes) required
- Experience in cloud cost management
- Great understanding of SQL, networking, distributed systems, operating systems (debian) and software engineering practices
- Experience with messaging systems
- Terraform or other Infrastructure as Code automation solution
- Operating Relational SQL databases and Redis at terabyte scale
- Proven experience with setting up monitoring/alerting and reliability engineering
- Scriptings skills in Python
- Must be comfortable with 12-hour on call rotations
Desirable
- GitOps
- Setting up automation for complex load testing scenarios
- Tuning Deep Learning pipelines with Python, Pytorch and Multiprocessing
- Backend programming with Python
What the job involves
- Mission of the role: To enable us to scale from 200k to 1 million cameras
- As a Sr. DevOps/Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) at our company, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring the smooth operation and continuous improvement of our infrastructure, deployment processes, and overall system reliability
- Set up and manage blue/green and canary deployments to ensure smooth launches without downtime
- Operate multiple large GCP Kubernetes clusters and fine tune for reliability vs cost
- Manage the various distributed services of the company, ensuring to always provide graceful updates, comprehensive test coverage, tracking of logs, and 99.9% uptime
- Work with Backend, Frontend and Deep Learning teams and write infrastructure automation code for their needs
- Identify scalability bottlenecks through load testing and plan infrastructure architecture
- Create tools to provide transparency/ease of access into the company's rich datasets stored across varying geographic locations and data formats
- Design, build, and manage a robust Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipeline
- Lead uptime improvement processes including: postmortem review, on-call setup
Our take
Even in the largest retailers, inventory systems are usually manual, with staff checking inventory to get an idea of stock numbers, spoilage and other metrics. These are slow and introduce a high degree of human error, as well as being difficult to carry out around shoppers.
Focal Systems leverages a network low cost, ruggedized cameras and computer vision to scan a store's shelves automatically, alerting the backroom of the need to restock an area of the store in real time. In a time when retailers are facing staff shortages and supply chain issues, this kind of automation is in high demand, as is evidenced by Focal System's customer base which includes the likes of Walmart, ShopRite and Piggly Wiggly.
Having raised an impressive amount of funding, Focal Systems is doubling down on R&D and expanding its global sales and engineering teams. As more brick and mortar retailers begin to adopt automated solutions, Focal Systems is a strong position to continue its growth.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Dec 2021
$25.8m
SERIES B
Dec 2019
$4.8m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $41.9m
Company benefits
- Health Insurance
- Catered lunches
- Paid Time Off
- Quarterly Team Retreats
- Education grants
- Meaningful equity-grants in a very fast growing startup that is aiming for an IPO
Company values
- Be the best technology partner you work with
- We are a deep learning first company
- Only when you test your limits do you realize you have none
- The hardest working, most dedicated team will win
- Own your work
- Row as one
- Focus and solve one problem at a time
- Hypothesize, experiment, measure, repeat
- Crave change, embrace discomfort
- Burn the boats
- Love life, love the world
Company HQ
Ingold - Milldale, Burlingame, CA
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Leadership
Francois Chaubard
(CEO)Was a part of Lockheed Martin's Engineering Leadership Development Program. Then worked as a Deep Learning Researcher at Bay Sensors and Apple.
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