About Beatport

For 20 years, Beatport has been the global leader in DJ and Club Culture, pushing the boundaries of dance music to all corners of the world. Created by DJs for DJs, Beatport has always been dedicated to innovating new products and services to support evolving generations of music performers and producers.

Working at Beatport, you’ll have the unique opportunity to work for an industry-defining brand in a professionally structured start-up environment where employees work within highly collaborative teams across the globe on products and services that change how DJs and fans experience music.

Like our audience, we are global. Beatport offers the possibility to work remotely and has offices in the UK and Los Angeles.

The Beatport Group includes some of the best-known brands in DJ culture, including Beatport, Beatsource, Loopmasters, Plugin Boutique, Loopcloud, Beatport Streaming, Ampsuite and LabelRadar; we are consistently looking for bright, creative professionals with diverse perspectives and backgrounds. So whether your dream job is currently listed below or not, please introduce yourself if you believe you’d be a great addition to our team, who are as excited as we are to continue revolutionising the ecosystem that empowers DJs and creators to be successful at their craft.

The Role: 

This is a high-impact role in a growing company on an excellent team. The Site Reliability Engineering Team seeks to create, improve, and sustain robust, resilient systems and support structures and interact with other teams in the engineering organization. Some of our core principles include the following: 

• Achieving Operational Excellence by continuously improving systems, encouraging feedback for faster decision making and looking for opportunities for improvement.
• Embracing and managing risk by encouraging change, maximizing throughput with agile/lean methodologies and failing fast and loud, and learning from experience and knowing that failures are the best teaching tool.
• Automating processes to reduce toil and monitoring everything with actionable alerts.
• Advocating infrastructure best practices and sharing insights throughout the organization.

Where you come in: 

We are looking to hire a qualified Site Reliability Engineer based remotely in the US and working in US time zones. You’ll work with product teams to provide technical leadership in the management and scaling of our services. You’d be responsible for building, managing, and deploying infrastructure as code within a virtual computing and storage environment for digital media delivery and supply chain management. In addition, we’d rely on you to empower and align with Software Engineering Teams by coordinating efforts to architect systems, create shared standards, and maintain documentation of those designs and prototypes. You’d also help to develop and maintain the techniques needed for observability, instrumentation, metrics, and monitoring, as well as education on the use of these systems.

As a Site Reliability Engineer, you'll be accountable for the following: 

• Ensuring our Kubernetes clusters are reliable, scalable, performant, and can be extended to support new requirements
• Prescribing and enforcing service-level objectives (SLOs) and error budgets for production systems
• Automating the provisioning and management of infrastructure hosted in AWS and GCP
• Creating automated systems for repetitive tasks, including self-healing/auto-scaling capabilities.
• Network design
• Enforcing access controls
• Automating and tuning static and runtime analysis to improve service security
• Software system architecture
• Participating in an on-call rotation
• Implementing change controls
• Crafting plans and procedures for disaster recovery

 As a Site Reliability Engineer, you will require the following: 

• Familiarity with Linux and the UNIX methodology
• Proficiency in a scripting language such as Python or Bash
• Proficiency in observability tools such as Prometheus, grafana and sentry
• Experience in a DevOps or Software Engineering role
• A familiarity with software, including the application of data structures and algorithms
• Experience operating Kubernetes or orchestrated containers (OCI) in a production environment
• Familiarity with building and maintaining continuous delivery systems
• Experience working with at least one of the major cloud providers (AWS, GCP preferred)
• A background in building and managing highly available distributed systems
• Ability to write infrastructure as code (some examples would be Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, and Chef)
• Comfortable with networking concepts such as TCP/IP, DNS and HTTP
• A basic understanding of relational and non-relational database technologies and how to administer these systems in a production environment (e.g. MariaDB, MySQL, Elasticsearch)

You are:

• Willing and eager to cooperate with other teams to share knowledge and collaboratively design, build and implement systems.
• A clear, organized thinker that is comfortable with helping to shape the culture of the engineering organization
• Someone who strives for engineering excellence by continuously improving along the way - leaving things better than you found them.
• A purpose-driven problem solver who enjoys learning new skills to solve the problem at hand

How to apply:

Please send a resume and links to any work samples.

Benefits:

We offer a responsible and exciting proposal with an international range. The position is within a highly motivated team with a positive working climate that will allow you to express your talent fully. In addition, we offer appropriate remuneration and excellent development chances within a dynamically growing enterprise. Beyond this, the position provides an intensive integration into the international music scene.

• Remote work options
• A professional environment with room for creativity and fun 
• First-hand access to select music events & Livestreams
• Focus / Flexible Days
• Flexible 'Unlimited' PTO 
• Health, dental, and vision insurance (varies by region)
• Pension/ retirement 
• Workers' Compensation
• More

Equal Employment Opportunity:

The Beatport Group strongly supports equal employment opportunity for all applicants regardless of race, colour, religion, sex, gender identity, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, marital status, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by state or federal law. 

Hiring Practices:

The preceding job description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not intended to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. Beatport’s recruitment policies are designed to place the most highly qualified persons available in a timely and efficient manner. Beatport may pursue all avenues available, including promotion from within, employee referrals, outside advertising, Internet recruiting, job fairs and college recruiting. Beatport does not accept speculative CV's from employment agencies unless specifically requested by the Talent Team.