About the role

Role Overview

As a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) at Weedmaps, you will partner across application, infrastructure, and quality teams to improve the performance, reliability, resilience, and scalability of the services powering Weedmaps.com.

Responsibilities

Collaborate with stakeholders to drive best practices for monitoring and CI/CD pipelines
Troubleshoot deployment issues in CI pipelines
Reduce developer toil and improve deployment workflows and pipelines
Configure and improve CI workflows and support multiple production releases per day
Serve as a knowledge reference to ensure consistent tooling for metrics, logging, build, and deployment
Define and instrument service-specific metrics (beyond golden metrics) and build libraries to help services easily instrument themselves
Identify opportunities for automation and codify operational practices
Create and refine synthetic monitoring flows
Advocate for a DevOps culture across partner teams (including collaboration, reliability, security, and performance)

Requirements

2+ years of development experience at a startup or mid-sized company
Proficiency in Python, Go, Node.js, Ruby, or Elixir
Knowledge of containerization, especially Docker (Kubernetes is a plus)
Strong communication skills and a constructive feedback mindset
Experience with cloud-native observability standards such as OpenMetrics, OpenTracing, and OpenCensus
Expertise configuring modern CI/CD workflows
Deep understanding of SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs (service level to business level)
Deep understanding of the golden metrics and alerting/monitoring
Familiarity with GitHub branching strategy
Experience troubleshooting containerized applications

Nice to Have (Bonus Points)

Cloud infrastructure concepts (e.g., AWS, GCP)
HashiCorp tools: Terraform, Consul, Vault
Computer science or other engineering background
CI tools experience (e.g., CircleCI, Jenkins, Travis, Drone, Semaphore)
Observability tooling such as Prometheus, CloudWatch, Datadog, Grafana

Location / Work Style

Title indicates Remote; posting includes Austin, TX.

About Weedmaps

Weedmaps is a cloud-native organization delivering web services for Weedmaps.com. The company runs services in Docker on Kubernetes in AWS, emphasizing performance, reliability, resilience, and scalability through strong engineering practices and observability.

Site Reliability Engineer (Remote)

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