Staff Site Reliability Engineer - Infrastructure

February 5

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Kentik

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Kentik is a network observability company that provides a comprehensive platform for optimizing cloud costs, performance, and security. Their solutions enable users to visualize all cloud and network traffic, monitor network performance, troubleshoot issues quickly, and ensure secure cloud migrations. Kentik helps organizations reduce cloud spend and mitigate DDoS attacks, while offering tools for network AI and hybrid cloud observability. The platform seamlessly integrates with existing tools, making it an essential resource for any team managing large networks.

network analytics • NetFlow • AIOps • network automation • network visibility

201 - 500 employees

🔒 Cybersecurity

☁️ SaaS

📋 Description

• Kentik is looking for an experienced software engineer with an operational mindset to join our Infrastructure team as a Staff SRE. • This infra team is in charge of the software stack that powers Kentik - from configuration management and orchestration, API and service fabric, to datastores and data pipelines, developer experience and internal observability. • We provide a reliable platform for other engineering teams to build on. • The role is a mix of development and operations. You will be writing code for internal API services and tools, as well as operating these services in production, along with third-party components like envoy or postgres.

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of relevant experience • An SRE mindset and and the drive to build reliable, easy to operate systems • Running, scaling, tuning postgres, kafka or other datastores and third-party applications • Experience building apps and services (i.e. Go or nodejs, GRPC, postgres or mysql) • Shipped projects from scratch and maintained them over a period of time • Clear communication, both synchronous and via technical plans • A practice of instrumenting your services and setting up the right monitoring and alerts • Passion for building and providing amazing tools and platforms to other engineers

🏖️ Benefits

• 100% of premiums are paid by company for health, vision and dental coverage for you and your dependents • Additionally, an annual Health Reimbursement Account (HRA) of $3,000 for an individual or $4,500 for a family • Paid family & medical leave • Open PTO, a quarterly Wellness Day, and a minimum of 10 paid holidays • 401(k) retirement account • Home office reimbursement • Stock options