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Original Job Post

Alation · 2 days ago

Sr Site Reliability Engineer

California, United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level

$191K/yr - $220K/yr

5+ years exp

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Responsibilities

Manage and run backend systems like Kubernetes, RDBMS, AWS services, and everything in between

Work closely with internal partners and teams to ensure that software meets security, SLA, and performance requirements

Maintain the Alation platform by diagnosing, predicting, and correcting scaling problems

Participate in on-call rotation, identify issues, drive them to resolution while conducting blameless RCA

Write deployment plans, execute upgrades, develop documentation, capacity plans, and troubleshoot production issues

Coach and mentor junior-level engineers and contractors

Ensure Operational and ITIL best practices are documented and followed

Qualification

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KubernetesDockerPythonRubyGoJavaSaas productDevopsAgile principlesLinuxUnix systemsAwsAzureGcpInfrastructure as codeTerraformChefAnsibleMonitoring toolsAlerting toolsLogging toolsProblem-solvingHard-workingCuriosityGrowth mindsetWilling to learnCommunicationInterpersonal skillsSCM tools GitSCM tools Github

Required

Must be a US Citizen to be considered for this position and on US soil

BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent and at least 5+ years of experience in Technical Operations production SaaS roles

Strong working knowledge of Kubernetes & Docker

Experience with any higher language like Python, Ruby, Go or Java

Experience with a SaaS Product at Scale

Strong understanding of DevOps/Agile Principles

Good note-keeping (Confluence) and ticket management skills (Confluence, JIRA)

Strong experience with Linux/Unix Systems and cloud providers like AWS/Azure/GCP

Experience working with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) at scale using tools like Terraform, Chef, Ansible.

Good understanding of networking and messaging between services

Curiosity, growth mindset, and always willing to learn new technologies

Good communication and strong interpersonal skills

Experience with monitoring and alerting tools (eg. Prometheus/ Grafana & Datadog)

Experience with logging tools (e.g. Datadog, ELK, Loki)

Proven experience leading complex projects

Preferred

Experience on SCM tools like (Git, Github)

Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases

Ability to work across multiple teams and good knowledge on AWS cloud services (e.g. EKS,RDS,IAM,Lambda etc.)

Prior FedRAMP experience

Company

Alation

Alation is a data intelligence platform for banks, retailers, and government agencies.

Founded in 2012

Redwood City, California, USA

501-1,000 employees

http://alation.com

Funding

Current Stage

Late Stage

Total Funding

$314.95M

Key Investors

NTT DOCOMO VenturesRiverwood CapitalIcon Ventures

2023-06-27Series Unknown· Undisclosed

2022-11-02Series E· $123M

2021-06-03Series D· $110M

Leadership Team

Satyen Sangani

CEO and Co-Founder

Aaron Kalb

Co-Founder + Chief Data & Analytics Officer

Recent News

Globe Newswire

Alation Signs Reseller Agreement with NTT DATA to Expand its Presence in Japan and Meet Surging Demand for Data Intelligence

2024-05-23

Globe Newswire

Alation Launches Workflow Automation to Proactively Identify and Close Data Governance Gaps

2024-05-13

Google Patent

Computer-implemented method and system for writing and performing a data query

2024-04-14

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