Site Reliability Engineer at SalesLoft
Kandidate, South Africa
Job Description
WHY YOU’LL LOVE SALESLOFT:
Put Customers First. Team Over Self. Focus on Results. Bias Towards Action. Glass Half Full.
These are the values that define who we are and have empowered our staggering growth to become the #1 leader in sales engagement software.
SalesLoft helps brands deliver value and create trust by connecting authentically and meaningfully with their customers. Thousands of customers depend on SalesLoft’s category-leading sales engagement platform to engage in more relevant, authentic and sincere ways.
Since our founding in 2011, we have grown into a global, award-winning organization with Lofters based all over the world. As a testament to our organizational health, we have been named by Forbes as one of America’s Best Startup Employers in 2020, twice by Deloitte as a ‘Fastest-Growing Technology Company in North America,’ featured by The New York Times as a start-up on a path to a $1B valuation, and have been recognized as a top workplace by Forbes, Fortune, Glassdoor, Atlanta Journal Constitution, and Inc Magazine.
We’re redefining an age-old industry! This is challenging work but our team of brilliant creatives makes the journey thrilling. We’re fast-paced, innovative, and collaborative. We pursue excellence in everything and have a lot of fun along the way. Come join us!
Check us out on Glassdoor and see what people LOVE about working for SalesLoft!
THE OPPORTUNITY:
Although we’re proud of our history, we’re just as excited about the future. We want to create a world-class culture and company that attracts, develops, engages and retains elite talent.
At SalesLoft, our Site Reliability Engineers are pivotal to our company’s success. You will be a key member of our fast-growing and high-performing SRE team that keeps our production environments stable, as well as creates tooling to enable our internal customers. Reliable services, as well as faster release cycles, lead to happy customers.
On a day-to-day basis, you will be responsible for project work to improve our operational capabilities, including creating and maintaining a toolset geared toward automation of various aspects of our system, including our CI/CD pipeline and cloud infrastructure. Additionally, our SREs are responsible for keeping our production environment happy, including being on-call, managing access, working with security to keep our platform secure, and more.
In addition to working with amazing colleagues who exemplify our ‘team over self’ core value, you will also have the opportunity to see a demonstrable impact your work has on our reliability and uptime metrics, which directly translate to customer satisfaction and company success. You will have an opportunity to make a difference.
WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR:
We are seeking a self-motivated, collaborative problem solver who identifies opportunities for improvement and relentlessly executes the plan to realize those opportunities day in and day out. You will play a pivotal role in helping us scale our operations, infrastructure, tooling and processes as we continue to expand as a business.
If you’re looking for an opportunity to learn more, do more, and become more, then becoming a Site Reliability Engineer is the career path for you!
THE TEAM:
Our SalesLoft’s SRE team is comprised of seasoned and up-and-coming Site Reliability Engineers who are all aligned on one vision and mission:
- Vision: Every seller is loved by the buyers they serve (#saleslove)
- Mission: Equip companies to maximize revenue by creating a fantastic buying experience
The SRE team consists of highly capable results-focused individuals who maintain a mix of deep operational and coding expertise, including being well versed in multiple cloud platforms. They are also exemplary communicators, working cross department with development, QA, security, and more.
They are also the epitome of our core values: Customers First. Team Over Self. Focus on Results. Bias Towards Action. Glass Half Full.
THE SKILL SET:
- 4-5 years of operational or development experience
- 2-4 years of SRE or DevOps experience
- Experience in an agile environment
- Moderate experience with Linux sysadmin concepts.
- Moderate experience with Docker architecture, suite of products, and best practices
- Moderate Experience with Kubernetes architecture, kubectl API, Kubernetes concepts and best practices
- Moderate familiarity with AWS or GCP.
- Moderate understanding of coding best practices
- Moderate understanding of Python and coding best practices, including DRY and SOLID concepts.
- Basic experience with Test Driven Development
- Effective communication skills for