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Overview

The SRE team works closely with all application and infrastructure teams across REI.com to bring a full-stack perspective on how our microservices and infrastructure are working together. We ensure the entire stack is working seamlessly to create the best customer experience possible.

We are looking for a Staff Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join the team. This is a unique opportunity for a passionate engineer to lead and participate on an innovative team, grow their skills, and explore new technical challenges.

The team supports and espouses the DevOps mindset and drives the application development community to share and incorporate new concepts and technologies which support our objectives.

Responsibilities and Qualifications

Responsible for

+ **Running** a complex hybrid cloud **website** and troubleshooting problems as they arise using **automation** whenever possible.

+ Building **monitoring** tools and **alerting** capabilities.

+ Building **infrastructure** and platform components, mostly in AWS.

+ Site **security** , collaborating with our Security Engineering team.

+ Ensuring site performance and capabilities by participating in performance, **load** , and stress **testing** .

+ **Evangelizing** SRE’s mission to REI’s engineering community including cloud engineering best practices and operational readiness.

+ Assessing and determining **root** **cause** **analysis** of problems, turning them into opportunities to positively impact performance, reliability, and security.

+ Advocating for the end customer and delivering a **customer** **experience** that exceeds expectations.

You’re passionate about

+ Acting as an effective **technical** **lead** within the team and on projects.

+ **Coaching** and **mentoring** application teams regarding DevOps and Operational Readiness best practices.

+ Providing technical **leadership** and **training** to less experienced team members.

+ **Automating** all aspects of software delivery and operations.

+ **Agile** work methodologies such as Scrum and Kanban.

Your knowledge, skills, and abilities

+ 6 or more years of progressively complex related experience that spans multiple areas for example: Java, Vue.js, ReactJS, SWIFT, Objective-C, Kotlin or ABAP.

+ **Expert** skills required in a **minimum** **of one** of the following areas: **Linux** administration, **Java** development and **jvm** support, website **infrastructure (AWS)** .

+ **Proficient** in scripting and automation (Python, Bash, etc).

+ Experience **leading** engineers in operating complex large-scale applications, or websites.

+ **Strong** background building, deploying, and using monitoring tools such as Netdata, Graphite, Grafana, Elasticsearch, Datadog, Cloudwatch, etc.

+ Cloud Experience, preferably with **AWS** & **Terraform.**

+ Experience supporting and deploying **microservices** , including building, maintaining, and deploying containers.

+ **Continuous delivery** tooling: nexus, Gitlab, Jenkins, etc.

+ **Security** experience in website operations and development best practices.

+ Development background, especially in **Java** (nice to have but not required).

+ **Ecommerce** experience (nice to have but not required).

Closing

**At REI, we believe the outdoors is for all.** We are committed to becoming a fully inclusive, anti-racist, multicultural organization (https://www.rei.com/newsroom/article/rei-antiracist-multicultural-fully-inclusive-commitment) . We know that there's strength in our diversity – that each employee brings unique skills, experiences, and perspectives. Every day you are driving change, fostering a culture of respect, and knowing you're backed by benefits that support your whole life. To work towards this commitment and fulfill our brand promise of inspiring and enabling a life outside for everyone, we seek employees who demonstrate different ways of working, create a sense of belonging, and actively listen and learn.

Pay Transparency

We are committed to practices that promote pay equity and transparency. As required by applicable Pay Transparency laws, REI provides a range of compensation for roles that may be hired in locations under these requirements. Factors that may be used to determine your actual salary may include a wide array of factors, including: your specific skills and experience, geographic location or other relevant factors.

REI offers all regular employees a generous employee discount, access to health benefits, a retirement savings plan and accrued time off. Click here (https://foryourbenefit-rei.com/) for a detailed overview of benefits plans by employee profile.

Pay Range

$130,200.00 - $208,200.00 per year