Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) Azure/Windows/Linux

Job Description

Stack Overflow is growing fast, and our infrastructure needs just keep getting bigger. We’re looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to join our existing team of SREs and devs and help us grow the Microsoft Azure side of our infrastructure. As an SRE, you’ll bring a DevOps mindset to system administration, always looking for ways to automate manual work and create repeatable, scalable systems and process

We’re looking for someone with experience in a .NET ecosystem in a Azure environment (or general Windows Server / IIS experience), but we don’t expect you to know every other part of our stack coming in, so we’ll pair you with other members of the team to learn and develop your skills across our entire infrastructure (including our non-cloud stackoverflow.com infrastructure). We are a mixed Windows and Linux environment and expect this role to be strong in Windows but learn Linux as we move more infrastructure to it. Experience with Networking/VPN, Elasticsearch, Redis, Azure Pipelines, Terraform are a plus.

What you’ll work on:

• Help one of our newest products, hosted Stack Overflow Enterprise, grow to its first 1,000 customers and million users
• Continuously improve and refine deployment/updates of Stack Overflow Enterprise instances on Azure through automation
• Work to improve our monitoring and alerting strategy for cloud solutions
• Work to improve our security patching and compliance strategy for cloud solutions
• Participate in creating a VM appliance version of our product
• Configuring point-to-point VPNs to larger customers
• Participate in our on-call rotation (1 week out of 4)

Our ecosystem includes:

• Microsoft Azure (Azure SQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Azure Automation, Azure AD)
• Azure Containers
• Windows Server 2016 and IIS and .NET Core
• Linux (we use CentOS)
• PowerShell / DSC
• Terraform / Go
• Our toolchain includes: Git, GitHub Enterprise, TeamCity (CI), CentOS Linux, Puppet, .NET/C#, Elasticsearch, Redis, OctopusDeploy
• In the future: Containers and Kubernetes

We’re looking for:

• 3+ years of Windows Server experience (WS2016 and WS2019)
• 3+ years of Azure experience or equivalent Amazon AWS, Google Cloud, etc.
• PowerShell experience, and a developer’s mindset towards system administration (always looking to automate manual tasks)
• Strong written communication skills and a strong inclination to “document as you go”
• Linux experience in a mixed environment (we use mainly CentOS)
• Some Microsoft SQL Server experience (Azure SQL a plus) or other SQL experience
• Basic familiarity with: Networking, DNS, SSL certificates

We like to see:

• Deep experience with Azure administration, debugging, and API use
• Knowledge of programming beyond scripting (we use mainly C# and Go)
• Experience working both on a team and on independent projects
• Great communication and people skills

What you’ll get in return:

• Flexible hours
• 20 days paid vacation + holidays
• Completely free health insurance - no copay, no premiums (US residents)
• Generous parental leave (10-16 weeks at 100% pay), family care leave, and unlimited sick days
• Employees will never be poked with a sharp stick

This is a remote position... (US/Pacific time zone) While we are a remote-first team with team members all over the world, this position requires collaborating with people in Europe and NYC, therefore you must be located in the US/Pacific or compatible time zone.

About Stack Overflow

Stack Overflow is the largest, most trusted online community for developers to learn, share their knowledge, and build their careers. More than 50 million professional and aspiring programmers visit Stack Overflow each month to help solve coding problems, develop new skills, and find job opportunities.

We partner with businesses to help them understand, hire, engage, and enable the world's developers. Our products and services are focused on developer marketing, technical recruiting, market research, and enterprise knowledge sharing.

We believe in hiring smart people and getting out of their way. We have an office in New York with some of the best amenities of any New York startup, and we have people who work remotely all over the world. We keep meetings and ceremony to an absolute minimum.

Employment is conditioned upon successful completion of a background check and upon having the appropriate legal right to work.

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Stack Exchange, Inc. does not discriminate in employment matters on the basis of race, color, religion, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, military service eligibility, veteran status, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, or any other protected class. We support workplace diversity.
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