This is a one-year contract position; the person in this role will be paid hourly. We will honor local holidays and grant company-wide holidays to the contractor in this position.
At Metalab, we connect imagination to reality, designing, building, and shipping some of the world’s most beloved products. Founders at early-stage startups hire us to help build businesses from scratch, and leaders at global enterprises hire us to explore new technologies and launch new products.
About the role
At Metalab, we’re passionate about building products that solve problems. We count on our site reliability engineers (SREs) to empower users with a rich feature set, high availability, and stellar performance levels to pursue their missions. As we expand customer deployments, we seek an experienced SRE to deliver real-time insights from massive-scale data. Specifically, we’re searching for someone with fresh ideas and a unique viewpoint and who enjoys collaborating with a cross-functional team to develop real-world solutions and positive user experiences for every interaction.
What you’ll do
- Run the production environment by monitoring availability and taking a holistic view of system health
- Build software and systems to manage platform infrastructure and applications
- Improve reliability, quality, and time-to-market of our suite of software solutions
- Measure and optimize system performance with an eye toward pushing our capabilities forward, getting ahead of customer needs, and innovating for continual improvement
- Provide primary operational support and engineering for multiple large-scale distributed software applications
- Gather and analyze metrics from operating systems as well as applications to assist in performance tuning and fault finding
- Partner with development teams to improve services through rigorous testing and release procedures
- Participate in system design consulting, platform management, and capacity planning
- Create sustainable systems and services through automation and uplifts
- Balance feature development speed and reliability with well-defined service-level objectives
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in computer science or related discipline
- Ability to program (structured and OOP) using one or more high-level languages, such as Python, Java, C/C++, Ruby, and JavaScript
- Experience with distributed storage technologies such as NFS, HDFS, Ceph, and Amazon S3, as well as dynamic resource management frameworks (Apache Mesos, Kubernetes, Yarn)
- A proactive approach to identifying problems, performance bottlenecks, and areas for improvement
- Previous success in technical engineering
- Coding experience beyond simple scripts
Location & Working Hours
Our philosophy is simple: We hire people from all over the world. If you have the skills, strong wifi and excitement to work with us, we’d love to hear from you. For this role, we are open to remote candidates located within CST to BRT time zones.
Equal opportunity employer
Research shows that women and other marginalized groups tend to only apply for a job when they meet every single criteria. Does this role sound like it was made for you, yet you don’t check every box? Reach out anyway! We’re an equal opportunity employer and are dedicated to fostering an inclusive and diverse environment for people from all walks of life. We hire based on talent, and we’re proud of our global perspective.
Equal opportunity employer
Research shows that women and other marginalized groups tend to only apply for a job when they meet every single criteria. Does this role sound like it was made for you, yet you don’t check every box? Reach out anyways! We’re an equal opportunity employer and are dedicated to fostering an inclusive and diverse environment for employees from all walks of life. We hire based on talent, and we’re proud of our global perspective.
