Job Title
Site Reliability Engineer
Company / Organization
Ride with GPS
Job Description
Come help us build out our private, on-prem cloud. Do you love modern container tooling but long for the days where costs mattered and hardware was appreciated? If so, come join us in building out the next iteration on our scalable, redundant infrastructure powering our website and mobile apps.
This position requires you to be within 2 hours of downtown Portland, Oregon. This is not a datacenter job, however the occasional management and updates to our physical machines is essential to the job. Historically, this is less than 10 days per year of actual datacenter related work (the bottom of the stack), with the bulk of the job being the middle (Linux and Kubernetes) and top of the stack (containers, services). This is a fully remote position aside from the datacenter work, though we have a small office we maintain in Portland to let people escape their home environment on occasion.
About Us:
Ride with GPS is on a mission to help people go on better bike rides, more often. We have a website and mobile apps that help riders discover the best places to ride, and provide tooling for them to build and distribute their own great bike rides, complete with cycling friendly turn by turn navigation. While our product is predominantly focused on cycling, we support all types of outdoor recreation. We are all about the journey and experience, not the time or athletic achievements.
Responsibilities:
The following lists a significant surface area of responsibility. It is a list of TEAM responsibilities, not individual responsibilities. For this hire, it is important we have someone to take ownership of the bottom layer, while participating as a team in various aspects of the middle and top layers of the stack. We don’t expect unicorns, rather we rely on well distributed team responsibilities, and finding the right person to complement our existing skills. Additionally, we are strong believers in finding people who have the ability to learn, rather than trying to just find people with existing skills. Don’t treat the below as a hard filter, reach out and talk to us if you think you are a good fit but might be light on relevant experience.
The bottom layer:
– Maintain our rack of Ubuntu Linux machines hosted at the Pittock in Portland
– Spec, order, and deploy new hardware as needed
– Occasional networking changes and work
The middle layer:
– Linux system administration
– Kubernetes deployment and administration
The top layer:
– Deployment and monitoring of various databases (you don’t have to be a DBA). MySQL, Superset, Redis
– Various DevOps related software (Jenkins, Docker + docker-compose, Helm, etc) that we use to deploy our services
– Satellite services (Open Street Map based tile, routing, and geocoding services, custom microservices for a variety of tasks, etc)
Qualifications:
Be an enthusiastic, engaged professional who wants to do great work and work with great people.
More details here: https://ridewithgps.com/careers/systems_engineer
Email careers@ridewithgps.com with a cover letter including a brief description of relationship to the outdoors, if any, as well as your resume. Being a cyclist or active outdoors oriented person is not a requirement, though we do find it helps make the job more enjoyable, and lets people have greater autonomy to make decisions.
How to Apply
More details here: https://ridewithgps.com/careers/systems_engineer
Email careers@ridewithgps.com with a cover letter including a brief description of relationship to the outdoors, if any, as well as your resume. Being a cyclist or active outdoors oriented person is not a requirement, though we do find it helps make the job more enjoyable, and lets people have greater autonomy to make decisions.
