Site Reliability Engineer
Unqork empowers enterprises to accelerate growth by rapidly building, testing, and running AI-powered applications that embody the future of enterprise development. Trusted by the world’s largest organizations in highly regulated industries, these applications become more secure over time while significantly reducing technical debt—allowing businesses to focus on innovation rather than maintenance. Unqork’s customers include Goldman Sachs, Marsh, BlackRock, and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
At Unqork, we value inclusive and innovative thinkers who boldly challenge the status quo. We encourage you to apply!
The Impact U will make:
Report to our Devops Engineering Manager
You will combine software and systems engineering to build and run large-scale, distributed, fault-tolerant systems.
Your primary goal will be to solve operational problems with a software engineering mindset, treating operations as a software problem and automating away toil.
Define, measure, and monitor Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and Service Level Indicators (SLIs) in partnership with product and engineering teams. Champion and help manage error budgets to guide the balance between reliability work and new feature velocity.
Scale systems sustainably through automation; evolve systems by pushing for changes
that improves reliability and velocity.
Increase visibility into the health and durability of the Unqork platform.
Practice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems.
Maintain existing services and tools, augmenting and replacing
What U bring:
3-5 years as a Site Reliability Engineer or Software Developer
Advanced experience with programming/scripting languages such as JavaScript/NodeJS, Go, or Python.
Knowledge in Linux monitoring, troubleshooting, and administration.
Can write and evaluate code for scalability/runtime.
Experience with container orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes or Nomad.
Experience with monitoring, APM, and logging tooling (Eg: ELK, Grafana, Datadog, NewRelic, or Splunk).
Experience working with at least one DBMS (Eg: Postgres, MySQL, Oracle, or MongoDB).
Experience with configuration management tools (Eg: Ansible, Puppet, Chef, or Salt). Ansible Tower or AWX is a plus.
Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Terraform, Cloudformation, Google Deployment Manager, or Azure Resource Manager.
Experience working with at least one major Cloud Provider (AWS/Azure/GCP).
Understanding of cloud native security requirements (Eg: WAF, security groups)
Compensation, Benefits, & Perks
💻 Work from home with a remote-first community
🏝 Unlimited PTO (and the encouragement to use it)
📝 Student loan payback program
🏥 100% employer-covered medical, dental, and vision options available to you and your dependents
💸 Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
🏠 Monthly stipend toward your WFH setup, vacation, development and more
💰 Employer-sponsored 401(k) with contribution match
🏋🏻♀️ Subsidized ClassPass Membership
🍼 Generous Paid Parental Leave
💲 Hiring Ranges:
Tier 1: $117,000 - $155,000
Tier 2: $105,000 - $140,000
Unqork employs a market-driven approach to establish compensation ranges. In addition to a base salary, employees may also be eligible to receive a target incentive and company equity in the form of stock options.
An employee’s compensation within the range provided above depends on a variety of factors including, but not limited to, their location, role, skillset, level of experience, and similar peer salaries.
As a remote-first company, Unqork incorporates a geographic differential into our compensation structure, depending on the candidate’s location. We utilize a tiered system—Tier 1 and Tier 2—to accurately reflect local market rates and ensure our compensation packages are both fair and competitive. Our geographic tiers are defined as follows:
Tier 1: New York Metro, Seattle Metro, San Francisco Bay Area
Tier 2: All other US and US territory locations
Unqork embraces a culture of security and privacy awareness by consistently safeguarding sensitive information, adhering to company policies, and actively participating in training and initiatives to protect our data and the privacy of our stakeholders.
Unqork is an equal opportunity employer. We will consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, nationality, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, disability or age.
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Site Reliability Engineer
Unqork empowers enterprises to accelerate growth by rapidly building, testing, and running AI-powered applications that embody the future of enterprise development. Trusted by the world’s largest organizations in highly regulated industries, these applications become more secure over time while significantly reducing technical debt—allowing businesses to focus on innovation rather than maintenance. Unqork’s customers include Goldman Sachs, Marsh, BlackRock, and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
At Unqork, we value inclusive and innovative thinkers who boldly challenge the status quo. We encourage you to apply!
The Impact U will make:
Report to our Devops Engineering Manager
You will combine software and systems engineering to build and run large-scale, distributed, fault-tolerant systems.
Your primary goal will be to solve operational problems with a software engineering mindset, treating operations as a software problem and automating away toil.
Define, measure, and monitor Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and Service Level Indicators (SLIs) in partnership with product and engineering teams. Champion and help manage error budgets to guide the balance between reliability work and new feature velocity.
Scale systems sustainably through automation; evolve systems by pushing for changes
that improves reliability and velocity.
Increase visibility into the health and durability of the Unqork platform.
Practice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems.
Maintain existing services and tools, augmenting and replacing
What U bring:
3-5 years as a Site Reliability Engineer or Software Developer
Advanced experience with programming/scripting languages such as JavaScript/NodeJS, Go, or Python.
Knowledge in Linux monitoring, troubleshooting, and administration.
Can write and evaluate code for scalability/runtime.
Experience with container orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes or Nomad.
Experience with monitoring, APM, and logging tooling (Eg: ELK, Grafana, Datadog, NewRelic, or Splunk).
Experience working with at least one DBMS (Eg: Postgres, MySQL, Oracle, or MongoDB).
Experience with configuration management tools (Eg: Ansible, Puppet, Chef, or Salt). Ansible Tower or AWX is a plus.
Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Terraform, Cloudformation, Google Deployment Manager, or Azure Resource Manager.
Experience working with at least one major Cloud Provider (AWS/Azure/GCP).
Understanding of cloud native security requirements (Eg: WAF, security groups)
Compensation, Benefits, & Perks
💻 Work from home with a remote-first community
🏝 Unlimited PTO (and the encouragement to use it)
📝 Student loan payback program
🏥 100% employer-covered medical, dental, and vision options available to you and your dependents
💸 Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
🏠 Monthly stipend toward your WFH setup, vacation, development and more
💰 Employer-sponsored 401(k) with contribution match
🏋🏻♀️ Subsidized ClassPass Membership
🍼 Generous Paid Parental Leave
💲 Hiring Ranges:
Tier 1: $117,000 - $155,000
Tier 2: $105,000 - $140,000
Unqork employs a market-driven approach to establish compensation ranges. In addition to a base salary, employees may also be eligible to receive a target incentive and company equity in the form of stock options.
An employee’s compensation within the range provided above depends on a variety of factors including, but not limited to, their location, role, skillset, level of experience, and similar peer salaries.
As a remote-first company, Unqork incorporates a geographic differential into our compensation structure, depending on the candidate’s location. We utilize a tiered system—Tier 1 and Tier 2—to accurately reflect local market rates and ensure our compensation packages are both fair and competitive. Our geographic tiers are defined as follows:
Tier 1: New York Metro, Seattle Metro, San Francisco Bay Area
Tier 2: All other US and US territory locations
Unqork embraces a culture of security and privacy awareness by consistently safeguarding sensitive information, adhering to company policies, and actively participating in training and initiatives to protect our data and the privacy of our stakeholders.
Unqork is an equal opportunity employer. We will consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, nationality, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, disability or age.
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