What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Site Reliability Engineer position at stackav?
About Stack:
Stack is developing revolutionary AI and advanced autonomous systems designed to enhance safety, reliability, and efficiency of modern operations. Stack's autonomous technology incorporates cutting-edge advancements in artificial intelligence, robotics, machine learning, and cloud technologies, empowering us to create innovative solutions that address the needs and challenges of the dynamic trucking transportation industry. With decades of experience creating and deploying real world systems for demanding environments, the Stack team is dedicated to developing an autonomous solution ecosystem tailored to the trucking industry's unique demands.
About the Role:
Stack AV Site Reliability Engineers are responsible for enabling and ensuring our production systems meet their service-level objectives. Through the implementation of centralized observability and automation, the SRE team constantly ensures the health, reliability, scalability, and performance of Stack AV’s infrastructure. Members of the team are expected to contribute to a culture of continuous learning, provide consultation on architecting for high-availability, and ultimately drive the uptime and performance of our systems.
Responsibilities:
- Monitor and maintain mission-critical production services to ensure maximum uptime.
- Design and implement scalable distributed systems to facilitate the development of self-driving vehicles.
- Design and implement an incident management framework and build a culture of blameless postmortems and continuous learning.
- Scale the reliability and velocity of our systems and processes through increased automation.
- Document actions to build a comprehensive library of runbooks, which will act as a knowledge base and foundation for automation.
- Participate in an on-call rotation to uphold the SLOs and SLAs of production services.
Qualifications:
- Expertise in at least one scripting language (e.g. Bash, Python).
- Fundamental understanding of Linux operating system internals, TCP/IP networking, and storage subsystems.
- Experience scaling and securing services in the cloud (AWS, GCP) or cloud native environments.
- Experience using infrastructure-as-code principles to automate the creation of infrastructure resources (e.g. Terraform, CloudFormation).
- Understanding of engineering design limitations and ability to provide guidance to teams to scale their services to achieve desired performance within budget.
- Strong experience implementing and debugging cloud native and open source tools such as Kubernetes, etcd, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, and Istio.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to work effectively in a diverse and distributed team.
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