05 Apr
Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Remote, Americas - Hawaii)
Hawaii, Hawaii , 96801 Hawaii USA

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Job Description

At Shopify, we ship on quality instead of time. Our teams deploy new code many times a day, and our production scale is massive. Shopify has many critical components, and sometimes they fail. That's where the Resiliency team comes in, ensuring we can get back to green as fast as possible when that happens. Resiliencyset the foundation for building and running resilient systems at Shopify. This is a team of engineers with in-depth operational knowledge of the entire Shopify stack, and whoact as first responders and leaders during an incident.

Our job is to get to a resolution as quickly as possible, and guide teams to build a more resilient Shopify. We build whatever is necessary to quickly resolve incidents, and seek out ways to automate away the manual toil.

Commerce happens 24/7, sowe are building out a globally distributed team that can respond whenever necessary. Our team hires across 4 different regions (APAC, North America West, North America East, and EMEA) in a follow-the-sun support model that provides 24/7 coverage for incident management.

We welcome remote candidates based anywhere in the Americas, but working hours skew toward Hawaii Standard Time (UTC -10:00). Relocation is possible for the right candidate‍♀️

What’s in it for you:

  • Help Shopify run its planet scale systems by enabling our engineering teams to create resilient systems.
  • Work on uniquely interesting and challenging technical problems that aren't easily found elsewhere.
  • Help define what Resiliency and Site Reliability Engineering means for Shopify.
  • Have a direct impact onbuilding continual stability for our millions of merchants togenerate revenue for their livelihood, their families, and their employees, through the business they’ve built from the ground up on our platform.
  • Possibility of relocation to a regionthe team operates within.

What you'll do:

  • Respond to automated alerts and execute playbooks
  • Manage ongoing incidents, using your understanding of Shopify to involve the right teams and resolve as quickly as possible.
  • Clean up the noise in our signals, ensuring we can get an understanding of the system and easily debug a problem.
  • Set the standards with engineering teams across the company for building resilient, debuggable systems.
  • Ensure we never fail for the same reason twice.
  • Follow up on each incident to ensure the appropriate action items are in place and prioritized.
  • Help teams build tools to automate the toil of on call duties.

About you:

  • Based in the Americasand willing to work core hours in Hawaii Standard Time.

    There is also the possibility ofrelocation for the right candidate.
  • You have experience handling on call shifts for mission-critical systems.
  • You know what good observability looks like, but more importantly, how to get there.
  • You have been responsible for the tools and processes used to debug and correct failures in those systems.
  • You have strong software engineering skills, primarily in backend software development.
  • You are a developer comfortable navigating through multiple programming languages and digging deep in the stack
  • You reject the idea that on call has to be a terrible, disruptive experience.
  • You’re comfortable with hands-on development using cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCE, Azure, Kubernetes, Docker).
  • You understand how to improve difficult situations through short and iterative projects.

Nice to have but not necessary:

  • You have handled multiple on call shifts, and have navigated more than one incident through to the retrospective process.
  • You have experience working with a variety of open-source software including nginx, redis, Memcached and MySQL.
  • You have familiarity with network and web protocols, from IP to HTTP.

Additional Information

We know that looking for a new role can be both exciting and time-consuming, and we truly appreciate your effort. Tasha is an actual real live person () and is looking forward to learning more about you through your application. And remember, we want to know what you're really interested in building and why you want to build it at Shopify, so please give us as much detail on this as you'd like in the answers on the next page. ? ?#LI-KO3 #LI-REMOTE #LI-AH1

Shopify is now permanently remote, and we’re working towards a future that is digital by design. That location you see above? Consider it merely an example of hundreds of potential locationsShopify is hiring. Learn more here:

https://www.shopify.com/careers/work-anywhere

Our belief is that a strong commitment to diversity & inclusion enables us to truly make commerce better for everyone. We encourage applications from Indigenous peoples, racialized people, people with disabilities, people from gender and sexually diverse communities, and/or people with intersectional identities. Please take a look at our Sustainability Reports to learn more about Shopify’s commitments to our communities, and our planet.

At Shopify, we understand that experience comes in many forms. We’re dedicated to adding new perspectives to the team - so if your experience is this close to what we’re looking for, please consider applying.

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