Site Reliability Engineer

at  Yousician

JOIN YOUSICIAN

Yousician impacts and enriches the lives of millions of people by empowering them to play music they love, learn something new, and nourish their well-being with something meaningful. We merge music and tech to amplify the everyday. We reimagine the way people learn to play so that everyone can play.
And, you don’t need to be a musician to join Yousician!
We’re a band of passionate professionals who love what they do, are great at it, and move to the beat of the same drum. We’re for all players — from newbies to seasoned pros. If you are looking for a rewarding career opportunity that helps shape the future of music-tech, you’re in the right place!

WHO YOU ARE

• Above all, we’re looking for a team player who is communicative, collaborative, and nice to work with. Every day we learn and grow, so patience and humbleness is required.
• Demonstrated experience with AWS or Google Cloud/Azure.
• Containerization experience (Docker), IaC (Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar) experience, and container orchestration (Kubernetes, or similar) experience are things we’re looking for.
• Experience with Python scripting or similar is preferred.
• Nice-to-haves: CI experience (especially with Jenkins), MongoDB, ElasticSearch, Prometheus, API design, Ansible, Jsonnet.

ABOUT US

Yousician is the world’s largest music-tech company, with millions of users worldwide. Based in Helsinki, Finland, Yousician is home to the category-defining Yousician and GuitarTuna apps. Yousician, the #1 platform to learn and play music, makes learning fun, easy, and more accessible for everyone. Yousician’s innovative, award-winning technology listens to you play and gives instant feedback. With interactive, gamified lessons and songs, and courses by world-famous artists like Metallica and Jason Mraz, Yousician empowers people to play music they love. GuitarTuna, the #1 tune-and-play app (iOS, Android, WP), has won numerous international business awards, including WIRED’s hottest Finnish start-up, SXSW, Midem, Launch.edu, and educational awards such as Sunday Times ‘World’s best apps’ and Best European Learning Game. Today Yousician employs 140+ professionals from nearly 30 nationalities. We’re hiring, so come join our amazing team and help us make the world a more musical place!

• You’d be working with the AWS platform, Linux servers, Ansible, Docker images, Terraform/Terragrunt provisioning definitions, and Kubernetes (AWS EKS) in dev, staging, and production clusters to build/maintain/optimize infrastructure for our services.
• Our backend services are mostly Python with the main API built on Flask. Our API architecture is relatively flat and modular. You’d be comfortable enough with the backend code to make required changes and troubleshoot problems, but we’re not expecting you to be an ace Python developer.
• We use Jenkins as our CI, with most of the pipelines written in Groovy.
• Our observability uses Redis, Grafana, Prometheus, Sentry, Loki, as well as a few home-baked custom solutions.
• Our main database is MongoDB. You’d be comfortable making changes to dev and production alike.
• You’d be part of an alert rotation schedule, wherein you’d be expected to be responsible for responding to alerts at least one week each month.