Site Reliability Engineer - Remote

Overview

The Site Reliability Engineering organization at Pinterest is accountable for ensuring overall Pinterest availability as well as enhancing Engineering teams’ capability to design, build and operate robust systems at scale.

In Short

• Develop software solutions to enable reliability and operability of large scale distributed systems handling petabytes of data.
• Build a deep understanding of how Pinterest’s systems behave, scale, interact and fail.
• Build tools and automation to eliminate toil and reduce operational overhead.
• Build meaningful, insightful and actionable SLIs.
• Automate critical portions of Pinterest’s engineering processes.
• Manage capacity and performance to help scale our infrastructure.

Requirements

• Strong knowledge of Linux/Unix/BSD internals and experience with open source software.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a relevant field or equivalent experience.
• Experience with technologies such as ElasticSearch, ZooKeeper, HBase, Hadoop, Memcache and Kafka.
• 2+ years of experience with programming languages (Python, Java, Ruby, etc.).
• Infrastructure as code experience is a plus.
• Bonus points for experience with deploying web apps to cloud infrastructure.

Benefits

• Flexible work model (PinFlex).
• Opportunity to work with large-scale distributed systems.
• Collaborative work environment.
• Focus on personal and professional growth.