Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Performance

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Requirements:

• 5+ years of Ruby/Rail Experience
• 3+ years of AWS Experience
• Kubernetes experience
• Experience with profiling and benchmarking source code
• Effective at code review, and identifying potential performance problems before they reach production
• Experience with Datadog or other APM tools
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Responsibilities:

• Proactively identify, triage, and resolve performance issues
• Enhance system observability by monitoring performance metrics across Ruby, Rails, and database systems, including SLOs and SLIs
• Guide product engineers on Ruby/Rails performance and database best practices through code reviews and pair programming
• Optimize performance through instance configuration and monitoring
• Collaborate with other SREs to proactively identify and address performance bottlenecks
• Lead database capacity planning and upgrade initiatives
• Manage the database-specific components of disaster recovery planning and execution
• Oversee backup systems and pre-production databases
• Create and maintain infrastructure and operations documentation
• Participate in the on-call rotation