Software Engineer, Platform (Site Reliability)

Job Description

Bitly is used by hundreds of thousands of businesses around the world to build stronger connections with their customers across every digital channel. Bitly provides powerful technology to customize, manage, publish, and track links through an easy-to-use, self-service platform backed by scaled, reliable, and secure infrastructure. Bitly's extensible Link Management Platform provides customers with the building blocks to power digital experiences, applications and workflows, and understand customer behavior in unique, valuable ways. Businesses of all sizes use Bitly in a broad variety of use cases. The Role: You will use Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles to modernize and scale Bitly’s infrastructure. You will be a key contributor as we evolve our infrastructure to become more cloud-native and globally distributed.

What You'll Do

• Design, build and maintain the infrastructure we need to support 10x the volume of requests on our platform
• Improve the the way containerized workloads are deployed and managed
• Build internal tools and libraries that improve observability (i.e logging, monitoring and tracing)
• Improve the way services are designed, deployed and operated across our engineering team
• Support our 24x7 reliability and availability guarantees as a member of the operations team

Who You Are

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
• Experience programming in Golang, Python, C++ or Java
• Understanding of Linux and TCP/IP network fundamentals
• Production experience running services such as load balancers, relational databases, messaging systems and container-orchestration systems
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code
• Experience analyzing and troubleshooting systems

Bonus Points

• Experience working with globally distributed systems or infrastructure
• Experience with Google Cloud or Amazon AWS
• Experience with HBase, Cassandra or Cloud Bigtable
• Experience with Elasticsearch
• Operational knowledge of Kubernetes
• Fluency in Golang and/or Python

Employee Benefits:

• Competitive Salary + Stock Options
• Comprehensive and competitive medical, dental, and vision insurance (all LGBT friendly)
• 401k with up to 4% employer match
• One Medical membership: Doctors you can text, call or email 24/7 and receive access to expert insurance guidance where available
• Wellness reimbursement program
• Partial cell phone service reimbursement
• Voluntary LegalShield for legal services and IDShield for identity theft protection
• Unlimited vacation, personal time, and flexible work from home policies
• Full support for remote work during COVID-19, including a home office and separate WiFi stipend
• Generous parental leave policies; maternity and parental leave for growing families
• Budget for professional development opportunities, including courses and conference attendance
• Company sponsored volunteering opportunities (when it is safe to do so)

If based in Colorado, the annual cash compensation range for this position is $90,000 - $140,000. Final compensation will be determined based on experience and skills and may vary from the range listed above. In keeping with our beliefs and goals, no employee or applicant will face discrimination/harassment based on: race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, age, gender, marital domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status, or veteran status. Above and beyond discrimination/harassment based on “protected categories,” Bitly also strives to prevent other, subtler forms of inappropriate behavior (e.g., stereotyping) from ever gaining a foothold in our office. Whether blatant or hidden, barriers to success have no place at Bitly. Apply for this job