Job Description

SR. DEVOPS ENGINEER - SOFTWARE EXPERIENCE

(COMPUTER SCIENCE AND SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT/PROGRAMMING EXPERIENCE)

THE OBSERVABILITY TEAM’S MISSION IS TO PROVIDE OUR ENGINEERS THE ABILITY TO EASILY GAIN INSIGHTS INTO SYSTEM BEHAVIOR IN A COMPLEX, RAPIDLY-EVOLVING, DISTRIBUTED ENVIRONMENT, AND LEVERAGE THE INSIGHT TO DELIVER A HIGHLY AVAILABLE AND PERFORMANT SERVICE TO ALL CUSTOMERS. WE ARE BUILDING OUR NEXT GENERATION OBSERVABILITY PLATFORM ON TOP OF INDUSTRY STANDARD, OPEN-SOURCE FRAMEWORKS. WE AIM TO UNIFY THE PROCESSES AND TOOLS TO COLLECT, PROCESS, STORE, AND ANALYZE LARGE VOLUMES OF TELEMETRY DATA IN REAL TIME. THE QUALITY OF OBSERVABILITY TOOLS AVAILABLE TO OUR ENGINEERS WILL IMPACT THEIR ABILITY TO EASILY IDENTIFY ANOMALOUS SYSTEM BEHAVIOR, QUICKLY DEBUG AND DIAGNOSE THE ROOT CAUSE OF FAILURES, AND ACHIEVE HIGH OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE.

IN THIS ROLE, YOU WILL WORK CLOSELY WITH A GROUP OF TALENTED ENGINEERS AND WITH OPEN-SOURCE TECHNOLOGY. DAY TO DAY RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE:

• DESIGN, IMPLEMENT, AND OPERATE RESILIENT AND SCALABLE DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS THAT PROCESSES BILLIONS OF EVENTS PER MINUTE

• WRITE WELL-CRAFTED, WELL-TESTED, READABLE, MAINTAINABLE CODE, LEVERAGING AND CONTRIBUTING BACK TO OPEN SOURCE

• HELP OUR ENGINEERS SELF-SOLVE ISSUES AND SHARE BEST PRACTICES FOR BUILDING OBSERVABLE APPLICATIONS

WE ARE LOOKING FOR NEW TEAMMATES WHO HAVE 6+ YEARS INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE, REAL-WORLD EXPERIENCE IN THE TECHNICAL STACK SUPPORTING PRODUCTION SYSTEMS.

REQUIRED SKILLS IN PROGRAMMING OR COMPUTER SCIENCE IN AND/OR SIMILARLY INTERESTED:

• METRICS FRAMEWORKS: PROMETHEUS, CORTEX, GRAFANA

• LOGGING: ELASTICSEARCH, LOGSTASH, FILEBEAT, KIBANA

• DISTRIBUTED TRACING: OPENTELEMETRY, OPENTRACING, JAEGER

• PROFILING: JVM, GO PPROF

• CLOUD-NATIVE TECHNOLOGIES: KUBERNETES, DOCKER, ISTIO, AWS

• LANGUAGES: GOLANG, RUBY/PYTHON, JAVA/KOTLIN, JAVASCRIPT/TYPESCRIPT (GOOD CS FUNDAMENTALS AND BE UNAFRAID TO JUMP INTO UNFAMILIAR CODE)

• AUTOMATED CORRELATION AND ANOMALY DETECTION

• SITE PERFORMANCE TRACKING AND MANAGEMENT

• BUILDING ROBUST DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS THAT CAN BE DEPENDED ON TO TROUBLESHOOT OUR PRODUCTION SYSTEM

• BUILDING HIGH-LEVERAGE TOOLS FOR OTHER ENGINEERS

• GREAT COMMUNICATION SKILLS AND EAGERNESS TO LEARN AND SHARE KNOWLEDGE WITHIN THE ENGINEERING ORGANIZATION

Company Description

Appko is an Engineering Services company, supporting Google, Nest, Cisco, BT, PayPal and many other Fortune 100 companies. Our team consists of experts in software development technologies ranging from front-end, back-end, UX/UI, DevOps, Cloud, API's and some of the most advanced software development platforms around. Appko provides engineering and development services to large Enterprises and Service Providers who are building some of the most sophisticated software solutions in the world.