Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Vortexa uses massive amounts of satellite data and artificial intelligence to create an unprecedented view on global seaborne energy flows in real-time, bringing transparency and efficiency to energy markets and society.
Houston, TX, USA
DevOps
Senior Software Engineer
Hybrid
AI · Enterprise SaaS

Description For Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Vortexa was founded to solve the immense information gap in the energy industry. Using satellite data and AI, they provide real-time insights on global seaborne energy flows. As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you'll join the Data Services Team, responsible for the developer platform and AWS infrastructure. You'll work on infrastructure availability, security, costs, and developer experience, using technologies like Kubernetes, Kubevela, Golang, Kafka, Opensearch, Airflow, and Athena. Key responsibilities include assessing technologies, delivering optimal engineering experiences, standardizing tech stacks, ensuring 100% uptime, optimizing AWS costs, and providing excellent developer tooling. You'll be instrumental in codifying operational knowledge and automating processes to allow R&D to focus on creating customer value. The role requires expertise in AWS, Kubernetes, Kafka, ElasticSearch, Terraform, and Go, with a focus on cloud-native application design and deployment. You'll be part of a globally distributed team, tackling challenges in a fast-paced, collaborative environment that values creative thinking and getting things done.

Last updated 3 months ago

Responsibilities For Senior Site Reliability Engineer

  • Assess current technologies
  • Deliver the best possible engineering experience with the shortest development iterations
  • Help crystallise, converge and standardise technology stacks
  • Implement the infrastructure roadmap
  • Ensure 100% uptime, availability, and fault-tolerance of every component of the platform
  • Optimize AWS costs
  • Provide delightful developer experience tooling
  • Codify and automate operational knowledge

Requirements For Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Kubernetes
Go
Kafka
MongoDB
Linux
  • Determined to create infrastructure that gets out of the way with a great developer experience
  • Excellent at troubleshooting unfamiliar code
  • Striving to be more skilled than Google with Kubernetes
  • An AWS power user and evangelist
  • Familiar with Apache Kafka and Kafka Streams – deployment, monitoring, resiliency, fault-tolerance, cluster planning and operations, applications debugging
  • Experienced with ElasticSearch operations and usage
  • Fluent in Terraform, and Go
  • Familiar with cloud-native application design and deployment
  • Not afraid of challenges and infrastructure troubleshooting
  • A 'can-do' person – 'I've done my bit' has no place at Vortexa

Benefits For Senior Site Reliability Engineer

401k
Dental Insurance
Equity
Medical Insurance
Vision Insurance
  • Stock-options in a fast-growing, high-potential business
  • A vibrant and diverse workplace
  • An open, collaborative, and supportive working culture built on merit, which celebrates creative thinking and 'getting things done'
  • The opportunity to work with AI-driven technology in a scale-up environment with commodity trading experts
  • 401k with up to 2% contributions matched by Vortexa
  • Private Health Insurance offered via Blue Cross Shield
  • Dental and Vision cover offered via Guardian
  • Global Volunteering Policy to help you 'do good' and feel better

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