Site Reliability Engineer

Site Reliability Engineer
The Opportunity
We are looking for a highly capable engineer to join our Platform and Site Reliability engineering team. You will be responsible for building, maintaining and operating the infrastructure platform on which all Ookla services are built. In this role, you will build, maintain, and support a massive-scale dynamic infrastructure that is relied on by hundreds of millions of users around the world. You will obsess over systems performance, scalability, reliability, observability, and security. Most importantly, you will help deliver critical application functionality and help make the internet experience better for our users to help us achieve our goal of better connectivity for all.
We are committed to providing you a flexible work environment where individuality, fun, and talent are all valued equally. If you consider yourself innovative, adept at collaboration, and you care deeply about the work you do, we want to talk!
Key Responsibilities
Maintaining a distributed, global ecosystem of thousands of cloud instances, containerized workflows, serverless applications, Linux servers, and associated infrastructure supporting billions of requests daily.
Maintaining transactional database infrastructure using MySQL, PostgreSQL, and managed services such as RDS/Aurora.
Supporting the use of NoSQL data storage engines such as DynamoDb and MongoDB.
Building and supporting data stream processing with Kinesis or Kafka.
Supporting data engineering and big data toolchains such as Spark.
Supporting production systems in a 24x7x365 environment, including on-call responsibilities.
Providing architectural and operational support to software engineers in a wide variety of focus areas.
Support software and data engineering teams and guiding operational best practices.
Implementation and oversight of security programs including vulnerability remediation, patch management, IDS/IPS, penetration testing, and interfacing with our corporate