Lead, Site Reliability Engineer - Newsela

The role: 

The Lead Site Reliability Engineer will be responsible for creation, maintenance, and ongoing monitoring of key parts of Newsela's infrastructure stack. You will be writing code primarily in Terraform and Python to build out a sustainable and reliable platform for our suite of applications and services. Additionally, you will contribute to the discovery, experimentation, and selection of critical parts of our software development lifecycle, from continuous integration to release management and instrumentation. You will work with other members of the Site Reliability and Engineering  teams to ensure that the code and infrastructure created are well documented and easy to understand by developers of all skill levels. Reporting to the Vice President of SRE and Data Systems, you will partner closely with our application development teams to ensure that the code that they write is easily deployable to a highly available and performant environment, both in the course of active development and within production environments.

Why you’ll love this role:

• As a member of our growing site reliability team, you will have the opportunity to impact the student and teacher experience by ensuring our applications are highly available and incredibly performant 

• You will also gain exposure to a wide scope of technologies, from container orchestration and data pipelines to observability platforms and release management tooling 

• You’ll have the opportunity to make substantial decisions about the direction of Newsela's infrastructure as code platforms 

• You will have the responsibility and opportunity to manage and optimize the cost effective SRE deliveries, and  lead and mentor a talented team of Site Reliability Engineers

• You will have a direct impact on overall application uptime and quality, which will ultimately scale Newsela’s ability to bring engaging, culturally responsive learning content to K-12 classrooms nationwide

 Why you’re a great fit: 

• You have 7+ years of experience in a site reliability engineering, devops, or platform engineering roles in a cloud environment using AWS, additional experience with GCP is a plus 

• You have strong experience in building infrastructure solutions using Terraform 

• You are very comfortable in using Python language and bash scripting for building tools and platform engineering solutions 

• You have experience with Database Operations using Postgres and/or MySQL 

• You have strong experience in building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using tools like Drone, CircleCI, etc, alongside experience working with containers (Docker, Kubernetes), and networking (TCP/IP, VPCs, DNS) 

• You’re comfortable working with observability solutions including logging, monitoring, and alerting using tools like AWS Cloudwatch, Datadog, Sentry, Loggly, or similar tools

• You have demonstrated success in managing and extending cloud platforms, and you have a good understanding of cloud data security standards, OAuth, JWT, etc. 
• You are able to leverage your experience in cloud infrastructure management to effectively build reliable, performant, and easy to use platforms to host and observe our suite of applications

Base compensation range: $125,000 - $175,000. Total compensation for this role also includes incentive stock options and benefits. This compensation range may be adjusted based on actual experience.