Databento
Site Reliability Engineer
Remote / San Francisco / New York / Salt Lake City · Full-time
Sponsorship not specified$150k-$215kDetected 10 days ago
PythonDockerKubernetesTerraformAnsibleCI/CDLinuxPrometheusDevOpsSite Reliability EngineeringRESTIncident ResponseRecruitingLoad TestingResearchCommunication
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About the role
- The company provides real-time and historical data across futures, options, and equities through a unified API.
- You'll work on petabyte-scale data processing, SaaS problems like customer management and billing, and the query systems that power our APIs.
- We accommodate 100% remote work, with teammates living around the globe and paid in their local currency.
Responsibilities
- Own uptime, SLAs, and SLOs across our API and platform services.
- Build and maintain observability across logging, metrics, and tracing.
- Design and run high-availability deployment and containerization strategies.
- Profile and optimize Python applications for throughput, latency, and cost.
- Join the on-call rotation, lead incident response, and run post-incident reviews.
- Find what needs fixing on your own, then take projects from idea to completion.
Requirements
- Hands-on experience with observability tooling for logging, metrics, and tracing (e.g. Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, VictoriaMetrics, Jaeger, Logstash, Loki, Vector).
- Experience with containerization and high availability deployment (e.g. Docker, Podman, Docker Compose, Docker Swarm, Kubernetes, k3s).
- Strong proficiency in Python, including application development and performance optimization.
Nice to have
- Preferred background
- Experience with alerting and incident response best practices is a plus.
Compensation
- A track record of measurable impact in a recent role, such as improving performance by X%, speeding something up Nx, or saving $Y per year.
- The base salary range for this role is $150,000-$215,000, benchmarked to Tier 1 locations in each country.
Benefits
- Bonus if you've done HTTP benchmarking, load testing, and capacity planning.
- We offer health, dental, disability, and life insurance benefits, as well as 401(k) matching for full-time employees.
- Total compensation may also include bonuses, commissions, and equity, depending on the role.
Company info
- We're looking for a midlevel or senior IC to join our Backend Engineering team as a Site Reliability Engineer.
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