Site Reliability Engineer (Remote)
As a Site Reliability Engineer at Weedmaps, you will collaborate with application, infrastructure, and quality teams to enhance the performance, reliability, resilience, and scalability of the web services that power Weedmaps is a cloud-native organization with all services running in Docker on Kubernetes within AWS's public cloud, leveraging observability, monitoring, CI/CD automation, and custom tooling to facilitate multiple daily production releases.
In this role, you will focus on building, monitoring, reducing developer toil, configuring CI workflows, and improving deployment pipelines. You will serve as a knowledge resource for development teams, ensuring consistent tooling for metrics, logging, build, and deployment. Additionally, you will work closely with development and infrastructure teams to identify essential service-specific metrics and assist application development teams in creating libraries for easy service instrumentation.
The ideal candidate will have a minimum of 2 years of development experience at startup or mid-sized companies, with proficiency in Python, Go, Node.js, Ruby, or Elixir. Knowledge of containerization, particularly Docker (with Kubernetes as a plus), is essential. Effective communication skills, a positive attitude, and the ability to give and receive constructive feedback are also important. Professional experience with cloud-native observability standards such as OpenMetrics, OpenTracing, and OpenCensus, as well as expertise in configuring modern CI/CD workflows, is required.
Weedmaps offers a comprehensive benefits package, including 100% employer-paid premiums for medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees, with up to 80% coverage for dependents. The company provides a 401(k) retirement plan with employer matching up to 3.5% of employee contributions. Additional benefits include basic and voluntary life and AD&D insurance options, supplemental voluntary benefits, student loan repayment/529 education savings with a monthly company contribution, flexible spending accounts, and paid time off, including sick leave and company holidays.