Senior Site Reliability Engineer

About the position

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) at Ancestry, you will play a critical role in enhancing the reliability, performance, and scalability of our services. Reporting to our Principal Software Engineering Manager, you will collaborate closely with our engineering teams to design, build, and instrument our web applications and systems infrastructure, with a strong focus on automation, availability, and performance. A deep understanding of system administration is essential, and specific experience with both Linux and Windows environments is required.

Responsibilities

• Own site reliability for a product vertical in collaboration with engineering
• Define and Ensure SLO / SLI and Error budgets remain in compliance with standards
• Develop improved monitoring, auto scaling and resiliency patterns and capabilities
• Debug complex issues across multiple services in AWS, to include outfacing infrastructure
• Collaborate and Develop cloud automation and new best practices in support of vertical and organization
• Train, mentoring and support in AWS, Infrastructure and Cloud best practices
• Member of Site Reliability Engineering team which reports up to Site Reliability and Performance Organization

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in site reliability
• 3+ years software development experience
• 5+ years cloud automation experience using Go, Python, Bash
• 3+ years debugging Node.js, Java, and a variety of DB technologies
• 3+ years of experience working with AWS Cloud, including services, CLI, SDK's, and AWS Console
• 5+ years using Cloud APM and logging tools, such as NewRelic, Prometheus, AWS monitoring
• 3+ years experience auto scaling, resilience, fault tolerance, AWS Infrastructure, cloud networking, and in containers management
• 3+ years experience analyzing production within a cloud environment
• 3+ years of Terraform or Cloud Formation experience for infrastructure management with CI/CD Pipeline

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• 401k
• Bonus eligibility
• Equity options
• Flexible work location
• Comprehensive benefits package