Infrastructure Operations Engineer - AppLovin

A Day in the Life:

We are seeking an experienced Operations Engineer to join our Infrastructure Operations team! We own the entire company’s production infrastructure, serving millions or requests per second and processing petabytes of data daily, seamlessly and without interruption.

As a member of our team, you will work with a small group of software and systems engineers to build AppLovin’s highly-scalable and reliable infrastructure and compute platform using cutting-edge technologies.

We are looking for a self-directed Operations Engineer who enjoys identifying and solving the most important problems around stability, observability and scalability and is driven to quickly obtain a deep technical understanding of new domains.

Basic Qualifications: 

• Minimum 2+ years of working experience as a systems administrator, DevOps engineer, or SRE
• Functional knowledge of Linux - it’s not necessary to be a kernel developer, but you should know what’s going on a bit deeper under the hood
• Ability to navigate around Bash, Terraform, Python, and/or Chef  
• Real-life experience working with Kubernetes clusters in production environments
• Experience working with GCP or other cloud platforms such as AWS or Azure
• Expertise debugging problems across the stack, such as networking issues, performance problems, hardware issues or memory leaks
• Ability to participate in week-long on-call rotations
  

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience or willingness to work with complex database systems of various kinds (relational, data warehouses, KV stores)
• Experience with highly-available large-scale distributed systems
• Knowledge of Go, C++ or Java
• Experience running and debugging GPU workloads
• Experience setting up and maintaining CI/CD pipelines

Perks: 

• Competitive salary and equity compensation
• Free medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Work from home stipend each paycheck
• 401k matching and employee stock purchase plan
• Flexible time off - take time when you need it

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