Site Reliability Engineer II

at  Ookla

Ookla® is a global leader in connectivity intelligence, offering unparalleled network insights through the combined expertise of Speedtest®, Downdetector®, RootMetrics®, and Ekahau®. Ookla’s complementary datasets combine crowdsourced and controlled, public and private collection methods, QoS and QoE metrics, and more to unlock correlations and actionable insights — helping organizations optimize networks, enhance digital experiences, and create better connected experiences for end-users.
Our team is a group of people brought together through passion and inspired by possibility. We are looking for team members who love solving problems, are motivated by challenges, and enjoy turning clever ideas into exceptional products. When you work for us, you are using Ookla data and insights to advance our mission of better connectivity for all.
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!

REQUIREMENTS:

We are looking for the right person, not the exact list of requirements. If you believe your life experience has prepared you for similar challenges, we’d like to hear from you.

• 4+ Years Systems/Platform engineering experience
• Experience building globally-distributed systems
• Strong understanding of security best practices
• Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, Cloudformation
• Branching and Merge based Source Code Configuration Management: Git, Github
• Configuration management systems such as Chef or Ansible
• Container-based architectures including Docker, Kubernetes
• Proficiency in one or more high level programming languages such as Typescript, Go, Python, PHP, Ruby, Java, etc.
• Experience with AWS and other Cloud infrastructure platforms
• Comfort writing SQL queries and analyzing query performance
• Comfortable learning and working with new technologies in an ever-changing environment
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Strong time management skills and a self-driven work ethic

Please refer the Job description for details