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Underdog · 8 hours ago

Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Infrastructure

Brooklyn, NY

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level

$160K/yr - $240K/yr

Underdog is a rapidly growing sports company focused on creating fun and engaging products for sports fans. They are seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to help define and improve their reliability, scalability, and operational excellence as the company grows, with responsibilities including incident response management and capacity planning.

eSportsFantasy SportsGaming

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Own and maintain the incident response process, including defining procedures, tools, and best practices

Guide teams in establishing and monitoring Service Level Objectives (SLOs), including setting up alerts and reporting systems

Lead capacity planning initiatives, focusing on both short and long-term scalability while optimizing costs

Develop and implement disaster recovery plans, including regular testing and regulatory compliance

Collaborate with teams on architecture decisions to ensure high availability and scalability

Manage launch and event planning for high-traffic occasions, focusing on infrastructure preparation and capacity management (a.k.a. Launch Readiness)

Act as an internal expert and consultant for monitoring tools like Datadog and Pagerduty and infrastructure like AWS and Kubernetes

Emphasis on automation and tooling to scale our workload

Contribute across codebases in Ruby, Python, Go, TypeScript, Swift, and Kotlin as needed to support the initiatives described above

Qualification

AWSKubernetesIncident responseService Level ObjectivesPostgreSQLDatadogRubyPythonGoTypeScriptSwiftKotlinResearchData-drivenCollaborationCommunicationOwnership

Required

Own and maintain the incident response process, including defining procedures, tools, and best practices

Guide teams in establishing and monitoring Service Level Objectives (SLOs), including setting up alerts and reporting systems

Lead capacity planning initiatives, focusing on both short and long-term scalability while optimizing costs

Develop and implement disaster recovery plans, including regular testing and regulatory compliance

Collaborate with teams on architecture decisions to ensure high availability and scalability

Manage launch and event planning for high-traffic occasions, focusing on infrastructure preparation and capacity management (a.k.a. Launch Readiness)

Act as an internal expert and consultant for monitoring tools like Datadog and Pagerduty and infrastructure like AWS and Kubernetes

Emphasis on automation and tooling to scale our workload

Contribute across codebases in Ruby, Python, Go, TypeScript, Swift, and Kotlin as needed to support the initiatives described above

A strong written and verbal communicator

Collaborative by nature

Someone who enjoys using research, data, and experiments to make decisions; you believe 'Hope is not a strategy.'

You enjoy working directly with customers (generally engineers or other people inside the company)

You think long-term about what is best for the business and its customers

You are excited to take ownership

You are very comfortable around an IDE, working with multiple languages, multiple web application frameworks, AWS services, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL

You can work independently to learn new languages/technologies as needed

You enjoy deploying changes to production quickly, multiple times a week if necessary

Preferred

Experience with PostgreSQL SQL query optimization, tweaking autovacuum settings, table statistics, different index types, etc

Experience with Redis / Valkey Optimization

Experience with Datadog or similar observability tools

Experience working as a web application developer, frontend or backend, especially in React and Ruby on Rails

Experience with AWS cost optimization

Read the Google SRE books or similar books, or have other forms of SRE training

Actively leveraging the capabilities of AI to augment abilities and gain knowledge about interested domains

Benefits

Unlimited PTO (we're extremely flexible with the exception of the first few weeks before & into the NFL season)

16 weeks of fully paid parental leave

Home office stipend

A connected virtual first culture with a highly engaged distributed workforce

5% 401k match

FSA

Company paid health, dental, vision plan options for employees and dependents

Company

Underdog

We’re the fastest-growing sports gaming company ever. Our mission is to build innovative games and products for American sports fans.

Founded in 2020

Brooklyn, New York, USA

201-500 employees

https://underdogfantasy.com/

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