at Sprout Social, Inc. in Chicago, Illinois, United States
Job Description
Description
Sprout Social is looking to hire a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to the Engineering team.
Why join Sprout's Engineering team?
With collaborative cross-functional teams that span mobile, front-end, back-end, QA and site reliability engineering-the Sprout Engineering team is a place to sharpen your craft and solve hard problems with the smartest people in the industry. You'll get to work on a "tech-giant" scale with smaller, supportive teams where every engineer has the chance to make an impact on our company, and our customers. The best part? In our industry, you often have to switch jobs or even companies to learn a new part of a tech stack or business. But at Sprout, our product is a suite, so you just need to move teams. You're able to diversify your skills, which not only benefits your team-but also your career.
What you'll do
Create "Paved Roads": standard production-ready technology that all of our engineering teams can leverage to deliver value quickly.
Work to improve all aspects of engineering through automation, observability of metrics, and clear processes in order to build sustainable and fault-tolerant solutions.
Deliver a reliable, scalable, secure, and cost-effective data layer to power all our products with technologies like MySQL, Elasticsearch and HBase
Partner closely with product engineering teams to provide subject matter expertise to ensure excellent outcomes on novel product features
What you'll bring
We are looking for a creative, collaborative, highly motivated, and pragmatic engineer to help us design and build reliable, scalable, performant systems that empower engineers to rapidly and safely deliver value to our customers. If this sounds like you and you want to be on a team that has a huge impact across all of engineering, we'd love to talk with you!
The minimum qualifications for this role include:
4+ years building and maintaining reliable, scalable systems in a Linux/UNIX environment
4+ years experience with one or more infrastructure-as-code or configuration-as-code tools, such as: Terraform, Chef, Ansible, SaltStack, etc.
3+ years experience operating and maintaining RDBMSs like MySQL, Postgres, etc.
Preferred qualifications for this role include:
2+ years with one or more Cloud providers; AWS, GCP, or similar
3+ years experience with one or more of Elasticsearch, HBase, or Elastic MapReduce (EMR)
Experience in at least one programming language, such as Python, Java, Golang, or Ruby
How you'll grow
Within 1 month, you'll plant your roots, including:
Experience Sprout's in-depth onboarding, covering everything from our company mission and values, hearing directly from executives and founders, to deep training on our products and the value that Sprout delivers to our customers
Make a plan with your manager to set initial priorities, align on expectations for your role, plant goalposts for your career, and learn about Sprout's approach to site reliability engineering
Learn about and interact with some of our key storage technologies: MySQL, Elasticsearch, Cassandra, and Hadoop
Start familiarizing yourself with how we use Terraform, Chef, and Kubernetes to deploy infrastructure, configuration, and code changes.
Within 3 months, you'll start hitting your stride by:
Complete your first end to end project, such as a new infrastructure deployment using Chef and Terraform
Gain familiarity with our platform architecture
Learn about our use of NSQ in our streaming data ingest pipeline
Use our observability tools to troubleshoot production performance or stability issues
Join our on-call rotation (don't worry we've got your back!)
Participate in code... For full info follow application link.
Sprout Social is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and an Affirmative Action Employer.  We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, genetic information, marital status, order of protection status, citizenship status, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please contact us by email at accommodations@sproutsocial.com and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. Requests for accommodation will be considered on a case-by-case basis. Please note that only inquiries concerning a request for reasonable accommodation will be responded to from this email address. For more information about our commitment to equal employment opportunity, please click here (1) Equal Opportunity Employment Poster  (2) Sprout Social's Affirmative Action Statement (3) Pay Transparency Statement.
