Thumbtack
Technology
SeniorSoftwareEngineer,SiteReliabilityEngineering
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“Senior Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering at Thumbtack. Skills: Site Reliability Engineering, Platform services, Distributed systems. Design software. Create software”
Industry & Context.
Decompose complex problems; Troubleshoot critical systems; Debug critical systems
Rotating on-call duties
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
5 years of experience, Extensive fluency in AWS, Extensive fluency in Linux, Ability to read code, Ability to write code, Ability to debug code, Ability to decompose complex problems, Ability to understand tradeoffs, Ability to communicate clearly, Ability to communicate effectively
Nice to Have
Knowledge of instrumenting distributed systems, Knowledge of operating distributed systems, Knowledge of observing distributed systems, Knowledge of microservices in production cloud
What You'll Do.
Set architectural direction
Support engineering organization
Manage infrastructure
Contribute to evolution
Contribute to performance
Anticipate performance bottlenecks
Participate in on-call duties
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Collaborate across business; Collaborate with engineering teams; Collaborate with product development; Collaborate with developer experience; Collaborate with backend infrastructure; Cross functional collaborative culture; Cross functional partners
Communication Scope
Communicate clearly; Communicate effectively
Full Job Description
THUMBTACK HELPS MILLIONS OF PEOPLE CONFIDENTLY CARE FOR THEIR HOMES. Thumbtack is the one app you need to take care of and improve your home — from personalized guidance to AI tools and a best-in-class hiring experience. Every day in every county of the U.S., people turn to Thumbtack to complete urgent repairs, seasonal maintenance and bigger improvements. We help homeowners know which projects to do, when to do them and who to hire from our growing community of 300,000 local service businesses. If making an impact inspires you, join us. Imagine what we’ll build together. ABOUT THE SITE RELIABILITY ENGINEERING TEAM Thumbtack's Site Reliability Engineering team focuses on creating and maintaining a reliable, secure, and scalable platform vital for a seamless user experience. As a key contributor, you will design and support resilient systems, prioritizing high performance, availability, and throughput, with a focus on minimizing service disruptions, downtime, and latency. SRE impacts Thumbtack’s ecosystem across the entire stack, from linux systems to applications that drive the customer experience. Our work is high leverage impacting how Engineering, Applied Science, and many other teams deliver, run, and observe systems. THE CHALLENGE The Site Reliability team is responsible for a broad set of technologies and systems with expectations to collaborate across the business. We are expected to develop and enhance existing capabilities while ensuring scalability, reliability and resiliency of infrastructure and software. You’ll work with engineering teams ranging from product development, developer experience, and backend infrastructure to collaboratively build Thumbtack’s ecosystem of platform services that have the right impact at the right time. Thumbtack values its cross functional collaborative culture, and you’d be positioned to contribute to the future direction and success of the engineering platform that serves as the engine of our applications. WHAT YOU’LL
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