Senior Software Engineer - Site Reliability Engineering

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Posted Date: Dec- 8-2020

Job ID: 18825

Job Type: Full Time

Job Function: Information Technology

City: Seattle

State: Washington

Store: Seattle HQ

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What's cool about this job

We currently have a unique opportunity for a Site Reliability Engineer who is passionate about their craft and wants to contribute to the success of our growing website. This job contributes to REI’s success by ensuring availability, performance, security and capacity for all the Co-op’s Digital offerings. With teams across the Co-op, we ensure applications and infrastructure are working seamlessly to create the best customer experience possible, while allowing for rapid innovation. A successful Site Reliability Engineer will possess both infrastructure and engineering skill sets, understand solution architecture, pipeline automation and can build and run new platforms and services. These areas are provided for their full lifecycle and must continuously improve to meet new requirements and priorities. The team manages its services like a product portfolio, supports the DevOps mindset of the Co-op, and drives the application development community to share and incorporate new concepts and technologies. You’ll collaborate with an existing mix of DevOps minded engineers and architects. You will have the flexibility to grow your skills and explore new technical challenges.

Building monitoring tool and alerting capabilities
Building infrastructure and platform components
Consulting with engineering teams on Cloud engineering best practices
Site security, through collaboration and support from Security Engineering
Performance, load and stress testing all areas of our digital offerings
Providing guidance on cloud best practices, drawing on your expertise in various AWS services
Evangelizing SRE’s mission through consulting, teaching and guidance in REI’s engineering community
Assessing and determining root cause analysis of problems, turning them into opportunities to positively impact performance, reliability and conversion
Assisting engineering teams with operational readiness activities and routine application heath analysis efforts
Advocating for the end customer and delivering a customer experience that exceeds expectations
Passion for coaching and mentoring other engineering teams with successful adoption of the SRE and DevOps mindsets
Ability to provide technical guidance and training to junior team members
Passion for automating software delivery
Extensive experience with Agile, SCRUM and Kanban methodologies

Bring your passion and expertise

Coding and Operations experience (5+ years combined)
Designing, supporting and deploying all types of applications and tools (2+ years)
Support of CI\CD Dev Tooling (2+ years)
Operating complex, large-scale Enterprise applications or web sites (4+ years)
Experience working in an environment that implemented Agile (2+ years)
Ecommerce experience (2+ years) - Continuous delivery tooling
Cloud Experience, preferably with AWS & Terraform
Security experience: Akamai CDN & Bot Manager
Keen understanding of branching, versioning and release strategies
Scripting languages, such as Python, Bash, Perl
Infrastructure as code: Terraform - Hands on experience with Jenkins and artifact repository (Nexus) administration
Experience with automating software tests in a pipeline
Proven experience with ELK stack, New Relic, Netdata, Graphite, Grafana
Commercial retail website architecture

At REI we offer an enviable work environment that Fortune Magazine has recognized on the "100 Best Places to Work" list since the award's inception – 23 years in a row! Sure, we work hard, but it’s balanced with time off to play—a strategy that works for us as we continue to grow and thrive. Want to enjoy a workplace where you can be yourself, be heard and be respected while having a job that challenges you? This is the place.

With more than 160 retail locations (and growing), REI offers unique competitive benefits to its more than 15,000 employees, including healthcare, gear and apparel discounts, free equipment rentals and challenge grants to help employees reach personal outdoor goals, generous retirement plan contributions, public transit subsidy, adoptions assistance, paid sabbaticals, and more.

REI is an Equal Opportunity Employer

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