Developer Productivity - Site Reliability Engineer II

The Search Developer Productivity team is responsible for quality, efficiency, and security across Search. We work closely with other teams inside Search and across Elastic to ensure the high-level productivity of engineers. The Search Developer Productivity team develops automation and benchmarking tools, is responsible for CI, monitoring, and security as well as for maintaining our Swiftype infrastructure. We make sure that the Search team productively develops and delivers new features.

What You Will Be Doing:

• Build benchmarking tools and automations, setting up monitoring and alerting systems for developers from the Search team to improve the experience around shipping software.
• Support Swiftype infrastructure and will participate in production monitoring and On-Call rotation for Swiftype.
• Collaborate with teammates in a (mostly-)text-based, asynchronous, remote-first team environment with occasional video calls and yearly conferences.
• Work hands-on with the team and codebase, reviewing work and providing constructive feedback.
• Collaborate with the team on projects, contributing to project delivery and planning discussions.
• Act as an important and communicative part of an engaged and spirited team.

Our Team Style:

• We appreciate articulate and “low ego” people who want to grow as part of a team.
• We welcome diversity in all forms. We embrace new ideas and appreciate characters of all sorts.
• We hold each other accountable and work to a high standard. We take pride in the frequent, safe, and graceful delivery of innovative and valuable features.
• We embrace open communication and aren’t afraid to be challenged.
• We appreciate positivity and vigilance and strive for autonomy, trust, and personal and professional growth.

What You Will Bring:

• Experience deploying and operating SaaS applications in production, ideally using Ruby on Rails.
• Experience in operating Linux systems.
• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code and configuration management tools (Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Salt, Terraform, Capistrano, etc.).
• Familiarity with building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
• Excellent practical judgment. You know how to prioritize, when to collaborate and ask for help, and when to be independent.
• Measured and articulate written and spoken communication skills. You work well with others and can craft concise and expressive thoughts into artifacts: issues, investigations, documentation, and onboarding material.
• An interest in learning new tools, languages, workflows, and frameworks that can help you grow. You can function well in an environment that drives towards change.

If this sounds interesting, we would love to hear from you! Please include whatever info you believe is relevant: resume, GitHub profile, code samples, blog posts and writing samples, links to personal projects, etc.