Description

We are looking for a strong Site Reliability Engineer to be an advocate for improving the quality of our engineering and operational environments. As a member of the engineering team, you will be the subject matter authority for your peers on keeping our services fast, highly-available, easily deployable, well monitored, and growing worldwide.

What You’ll 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 should take a holistic view of our technical environment and advocate for the creation and communication of metrics related to performance and quality. 

Responsibilities will include:

• Working to design, build, and maintain critical systems.
• 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.
• Taking part in 24x7 on-call rotation with other team members. 

The Skills You Bring to Tendril:

• Solid understanding of Linux containerization with Docker.
• Command of object-oriented and functional programming principles in languages such as Python/Java/Ruby/Scala.
• Understanding of fundamental technologies such as TCP/IP, HTTP, HTTPS.
• Production level experience with configuration management tools such as Puppet/Chef/Ansible/Salt.
• Production level experience with AWS.
• Experience with 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.
• A team player attitude – you’re okay with occasionally working off hours that may include evenings and weekends when production schedule needs require it.
• You’re service-oriented and enjoy working with engineers to make the software development process as painless as possible and providing continuous improvement.
• You’re self-motivated and able to work independently and/or in small teams.

 Bonus Points:

• Container orchestration (Mesos, Kubernetes)
• NoSQL and Relational database experience 

What Makes Working at Tendril Awesome...

 Tendril’s high energy, sometimes silly, fast-paced work environment will keep you engaged, motivated, and well fed.   Work-life balance is a core priority at Tendril. We work hard and we play hard and often the two overlap.  We love our dogs and bring them to work with us. We host family events and adult parties. We contribute to the community, we volunteer, and we mentor.  Plus, we offer a ton of great benefits, including:

• Health, dental, and vision insurance with a generous employer contribution;
• An innovative and flexible paid time off policy;
• A generous stock options plan and a 401(k) plan;
• Full reimbursement of bus and light rail passes;
• A kitchen stocked with breakfast and lunch food, coffee, sodas, snacks, and adult beverages;
• An open office environment where ideas flow among marketers and developers, product managers and support reps, who sit shoulder-to-shoulder collaborating and challenging and encouraging each other.

About the Tendril Team

Our people make Tendril great. We are a company of super stars working together on interesting things and achieving exceptional results. Each one of us contributes to our strong company culture, led by a visionary yet tactical management team.   Tendril offers our people the chance to grow professionally while working with colleagues they like and respect on work that stretches their brains and grows their skills. We are connected by a desire to innovate and a goal of helping the environment by changing the behaviors of energy consumers. And we like to laugh.