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Senior Staff Site Reliability Engineer

Oakland, CA · Hybrid

$65.50 - $87/hr

Technologies You'll Use Managed Kubernetes, GCP, AWS, Azure Cloud platforms, Temporal Cloud platform ArgoCD, Terraform, Pulumi, Grafana, Buildkite, Postgress Python, Go, Java, Bash/Shell Scripting ...

Staff Site Reliability Engineer

Oakland, CA · Hybrid

$65.50 - $87/hr

Technologies You'll Use Managed Kubernetes, GCP, AWS, Azure Cloud platforms, Temporal Cloud platform ArgoCD, Terraform, Pulumi, Grafana, Buildkite, Postgress Python, Go, Java, Bash/Shell Scripting ...

Site Reliability Engineer

Palo Alto, CA · On-site

$67 - $89.25/hr

... Buildkite, ArgoCD). • Participate in on-call rotations, respond to incidents, perform root cause analysis, and drive post-mortem processes. • Analyze system performance, forecast capacity needs ...

React + Redux, NodeJS, Babel + Webpack + Bazel, Jest + ESLint + Prettier, Jenkins / Buildkite + Docker + Kubernetes, Figma, Python. What you bring: 3+ years of professional experience with modern Web ...

Enhance build, test, and deployment pipelines with CI/CD tools like GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Buildkite, or Bazel. * Develop caching and artifact management systems to reduce build times and improve ...

Enhance build, test, and deployment pipelines with CI/CD tools like GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Buildkite, or Bazel. * Develop caching and artifact management systems to reduce build times and improve ...

Senior Software Engineer

Mountain View, CA · On-site

$143.40K - $189.10K/yr

Experience in AWS, Kubernetes, BuildKite, DataDog and SonarCube. Experience in rate limiters, caching, load balancing, circuit breakers, metrics, logging, tracing, debugging etc. Experience in ...

Senior Staff Site Reliability Engineer

Oakland, CA · On-site

$225.57K - $281.96K/yr

AWS, Azure, GCP, Terraform, Ansible, Buildkite, Pulumi, and ArgoCD * Expertise in Python/Shell scripting. Bonus if you have Java, GO, etc * Expertise with Linux operating systems, internals, and ...

Staff Site Reliability Engineer

Oakland, CA · On-site

$196.03K - $245.04K/yr

AWS, Azure, GCP, Terraform, Ansible, Buildkite, Pulumi, and ArgoCD * Expertise in Python/Shell scripting. Bonus if you have Java, GO, etc * Expertise with Linux operating systems, internals, and ...

Preferred : • Experience with BuildKite or Jenkins. • Experience with Docker. • Experience with PostgreSQL. Company : AstroForge is an asteroid mining company that extracts gold and other ...

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What are the key skills and qualifications needed to thrive as a Buildkite Engineer, and why are they important?

To thrive as a Buildkite Engineer, you need strong experience in CI/CD pipelines, scripting languages (like Bash, Python, or Ruby), and a background in software development or DevOps. Familiarity with Buildkite's platform, cloud infrastructure (such as AWS or GCP), and tools like Docker, Git, and Kubernetes is typically required. Excellent problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills help you work effectively with development and operations teams. These abilities ensure efficient automation, smooth deployments, and robust software delivery processes.

What are some typical challenges faced by engineers working with Buildkite pipelines, and how can they be addressed?

Engineers working with Buildkite pipelines often encounter challenges related to pipeline configuration complexity, managing secrets securely, and optimizing build times. To address these, it's important to modularize pipeline steps for maintainability, use environment variables or secret management plugins for sensitive data, and leverage Buildkite's parallelism and agent scalability features to speed up builds. Collaborating closely with development and DevOps teams ensures that best practices are shared and pipelines remain efficient and secure.

What is Buildkite and what does a Buildkite Engineer do?

Buildkite is a continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) platform that helps software teams automate the building, testing, and deployment of their code. A Buildkite Engineer is responsible for configuring and optimizing Buildkite pipelines, integrating Buildkite with source control systems, and ensuring efficient, reliable automation for software delivery. They often collaborate with developers and DevOps teams to troubleshoot build issues, improve workflow efficiency, and maintain secure, scalable CI/CD processes.

What is the difference between Buildkite vs Jenkins?

AspectBuildkiteJenkins
Required CredentialsCloud account, API accessServer setup, Java knowledge
Work EnvironmentCloud-based, SaaS platformSelf-hosted or cloud, open-source
Industry UsageDevOps, CI/CD pipelinesDevOps, CI/CD, automation
Common Search/ComparisonYesYes

Buildkite and Jenkins are both popular CI/CD tools used to automate software testing and deployment. Buildkite offers a cloud-based, user-friendly platform with minimal setup, ideal for teams seeking quick deployment. Jenkins, on the other hand, is an open-source, self-hosted solution with extensive plugin support, suitable for organizations needing customizable pipelines. While Buildkite emphasizes ease of use and cloud integration, Jenkins provides more control and flexibility for complex workflows.

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Senior Staff Site Reliability Engineer

Senior Staff Site Reliability Engineer

Fivetran

Oakland, CA • Hybrid

$65.50 - $87/hr

Other

Posted 10 days ago


Job description

About the Role

Fivetran is building data pipelines to power the modern data stack for thousands of companies.

We're looking for a high-performance, experienced engineer to be a part of a team of Site Reliability Engineers. You will be working closely with engineering teams, product managers, as well as support and sales engineers to build the future of the Fivetran Data Platform Reliability. 
As a member of the Site Reliability Engineering team, you will take ownership of the overall performance and reliability of Fivetran's infrastructure, the robustness of the deployment pipeline, as well as timely and effective incident response and resolution. You will take responsibility for the growth and stability of Fivetran's infrastructure, and be a key player driving effective incident response and overall issue avoidance.
 

This is a full-time, hybrid position based out of our Oakland, CA or Denver, CO offices. Our hybrid work model offers a blend of remote flexibility and in-person collaboration, including two days in the office each week to connect and build as a team.

Technologies You'll Use

Managed Kubernetes, GCP, AWS, Azure Cloud platforms, Temporal Cloud platform

ArgoCD, Terraform, Pulumi, Grafana, Buildkite, Postgress

Python, Go, Java, Bash/Shell Scripting

What You'll Do

  • Responsible for ongoing reliability and robustness of Fivetran's production infrastructure by monitoring availability, capacity, and throughput.

  • Evolve systems by adding reliability into our product roadmap

  • Coordinate the re-prioritize or fix critical bugs for support or sales requirements as needed

  • Make recommendations to production infrastructure by interfacing with engineering to ensure 100% availability

  • Ensure scalable artifacts deployment to all environments by automation scripts

  • Constantly monitor infrastructure vulnerabilities and remedy them by working with the security team

Skills We're Looking For

  • Expertise in  managed Kubernetes (EKS, AKS, and GKE)

  • Expertise of Cloud Platforms and related tooling: AWS, Azure, GCP, Terraform, Ansible, Buildkite, Pulumi, and ArgoCD

  • Expertise in Python/Shell scripting. Bonus if you have Java, GO, etc

  • Expertise with Linux operating systems, internals, and administration 

  • Expertise with cloud networking like VPNs, Privatelinks, and Private Service connect (GCP)

  • Experience with databases such as PostgreSQL

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