Site Reliability Engineer - Remote

Overview

As a Site Reliability Engineer at Weedmaps you will work cross-departmentally with your partners on the application, infrastructure and quality teams to enhance the performance, reliability, resilience and scalability of the web services that make up Weedmaps.com. We are a cloud native organization with 100% of our services in Docker running on Kubernetes in AWS’ public cloud. We also leverage observability, monitoring, CI/CD automation and custom tooling to push multiple production releases a day.

In Short

• Collaborate with stakeholders to drive best practices for monitoring, CI/CD pipelines
• Troubleshoot deployment issues in our CI pipeline
• Advocate emphatically for the DevOPS culture here at Weedmaps
• Identify areas for automation and embrace the codification of all things
• Evangelize best practices around collaboration, reliability, security and performance to all partner teams
• Take ownership of the application configuration/scaling for given services to ensure that they are following the established practices of the organization
• Create and refine synthetic monitoring flows

Requirements

• Minimum 2 years of development experience at startup/mid-sized companies
• Proficiency in Python, Go, Node, Ruby or Elixir
• Knowledge of containerization, particularly Docker (Kubernetes is a plus)
• Effective communication skills, a positive attitude, and ability to give and receive constructive feedback
• Professional experience with cloud native observability standard such as Open metrics, Open tracing and Open Census
• Expertise using/configuring modern CI/CD workflows
• Intimate understanding of SLIs, SLOs and SLAs from the service level to the business level
• Intimate understanding of the golden metrics, how to monitor and alert on them
• Deep understanding of the GitHub branching strategy
• Experience troubleshooting containerized applications
• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code, automation and configuration

Benefits

• Physical Health (Medical, Dental & Vision)
• 401(k) Retirement Plan (employer will match contribution up to 3.5% of employee contribution)
• Basic Life, Voluntary Life and AD&D Insurance options
• PTO, paid sick leave, and company holidays (including a 2026 holiday shutdown)
• Paid parental leave