Do you dream about creating a more sustainable future? At Uplight, we are motivating energy users and providers to accelerate the clean energy ecosystem. Working with over 75 of the world’s leading electric and gas utilities, Uplight provides an end-to-end customer energy experience. Uplight delivers personalized experiences that customers have now come to expect–improving satisfaction, increasing revenue, reducing the cost to serve, and contributing to carbon reduction goals. We are in the process of obtaining our B Corp certification,  enabling us to put our values into action by not only making decisions for the benefit of our shareholders, but also for our customers, environment, employees, and community.

We are seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join our team and help us achieve our ambitious goals for our business and for the planet. 

Description Summary:

Are you a seasoned, passionate DevOps professional who is ready for your next startup adventure? Do you know AWS like the back of your hand? Does the excitement of building resilient systems get you up in the morning? If so, you might be a fit for Uplight. 

We’re a growing, dynamic energy analytics and intelligence company based in beautiful Boulder, Colorado looking for a DevOps leader with deep and broad experience who can help us continue our transformation to a distributed DevOps culture, take our SRE practice to the next level, and spearhead our ongoing commitment to use best-in-class AWS technologies as a business accelerant.

As a member of the engineering team, you will be the subject matter expert and authority for the company on keeping our services fast, highly-available, easily deployable, well-monitored, and growing worldwide. You will also be a critical part in building and scaling our internal toolset to keep our engineering community moving quickly and safely as they build our software products.

Our Tech Stack

• 100% AWS Hosted (EC2, Kinesis, SNS/SQS, Lambda, Etc.)
• Infrastructure Automation
• Microservices
• Docker
• RDS, Redshift, and DynamoDB data stores
• Datadog Metrics/Logging, NewRelic APM, PagerDuty alerting
• Early-stage CI/CD with GitHub, Cloudbees, and AWS Tools

What You Get to Do

In this key role, you will lead us in best practices around deployment and operation of our systems,instrumenting key parts of the architecture, and guiding other engineers to do the same. You must be comfortable with software development, systems configuration, and defining infrastructure-as-code. You will contribute to and influence the architecture of our systems to ensure the application and deployment processes are aligned to provide a highly available, scalable, healthy system.

What you get to do:

• Working to design, build, and maintain critical systems.
• Improving upon our existing tools and processes to enable a self-service platform.
• Monitoring site stability, performance, and security.
• Driving the effort to create and improve automation for testing.
• Improving deployment, scalability, and management of our services.
• Championing the implementation of processes to improve visibility across the entire technology stack.
• Documenting system design and procedures.

Skills and experience are necessary, but we hire on value alignment first, so if you feel you would be a good fit with us, still consider applying.

What you bring to Uplight:

• A drive to collaborate with other engineers to develop and communicate software development processes that continuously improve the ease of development and quality of our products.
• Architect level expertise with AWS services.
• A principled approach to building software and internal tooling that balances creative disruption and pragmatism.
• A holistic understanding of high-volume REST-style API traffic flows and the ability to diagnose and resolve issues as they occur at all levels of an application stack.
• In-depth experience with running and troubleshooting Linux and Docker in a production environment.
• Production experience with container orchestration (Mesos, Kubernetes, ECS).
• Command of object-oriented and functional programming principles in languages such as Python/Java/Ruby/Scala.
• NoSQL and Relational database experience.
• Understanding of fundamental technologies such as TCP/IP, HTTP, HTTPS.
• Production level experience with configuration management tools such as Puppet/Chef/Ansible/Salt.
• Experience implementing test automation and Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment.
• Knowledge of best practices related to security, performance, and disaster recovery.
• Intellectual curiosity that motivates you to keep on top of technical trends.
• Experience with Chaos Engineering techniques and tools
• Strong understanding of SRE concepts such as Error Budgets, SLOs, Toil, etc…

 What makes working at Uplight amazing:

In addition to all the standard medical and dental benefits, that kick in Day 1, we:

• Are proud to be over 300+ rebels with an important cause by helping to create a more sustainable planet.
• Are committed to the environment, our employees, and our communities
• Focused on career growth by following defined career ladders
• Take our work and mission seriously and….we love to laugh!

In addition, we:

• Provide a 401k Match
• Have an innovative flexible time off policy
• Keep you energized with plenty of food and drink