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, is required, with Kubernetes experience considered a plus. Effective communication skills, a positive attitude, and the ability to give and receive constructive feedback are essential. Professional experience with cloud-native observability standards, expertise in configuring modern CI/CD workflows, and a deep understanding of SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs are also required.
Weedmaps offers a comprehensive benefits package, including 100% employer-paid premiums for medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees, with up to 80% coverage for dependents. The company contributes to a Health Savings Account (HSA) with the High Deductible Health Plan. Additional benefits include a 401(k) retirement plan with employer matching up to 3.5% of employee contributions, basic and voluntary life and AD&D insurance options, and various supplemental voluntary benefits. Employees also receive paid time off, paid sick leave, company holidays, and paid parental leave.
Life at Weedmaps is characterized by innovation and a collaborative culture that focuses on the benefits of cannabis and the community that supports it. The company fosters an environment where employees can shape the industry's future, offering numerous opportunities and tools to learn and grow professional skills. Weedmaps encourages networking and connection through speaker series, employee resource groups, happy hours, team celebrations, and more.