At Elastic, we have a simple goal: to solve the world's data
problems with products that delight and inspire. As the company behind
the popular open source projects — Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, and
Beats — we help people around the world do great things with their data.
From stock quotes to Twitter streams, Apache logs to WordPress blogs,
our products are extending what's possible with data, delivering on the
promise that good things come from connecting the dots. We unite
Elasticians across 30+ countries (and counting!), 18 timezones and 30
different languages into one coherent team, while the broader community
spans across over 100 countries.
Thanks to our ongoing expansion we have the opportunity to grow the
Swiftype Site Reliability team at Elastic. We're a part of the
engineering team with a focus on providing a reliable service to
Swiftype SaaS customers and supporting the team in development, testing,
and release efforts of Swiftype products.We are working on building out
and scaling a large Ruby on Rails Application. We’re looking for people
who are just as passionate about solving issues with distributed
systems as they are about automating, coding and collaborating to solve
problems. Does this sound like you?
What You Will Do
- Work with the Swiftype engineering team daily to ensure high quality and reliability of the systems we deploy into production.
- Increase instrumentation and automation in all aspects of day to day operations for Swiftype.
- Troubleshoot and resolve any issues occurring in production ensuring constant improvement of the systems as a result.
- Design and implement new systems to improve the reliability and resilience of the systems in production.
- Participate in SRE team's on-call rotation.
What You Bring Along
- We are looking for a systems engineer with proven hands-on experience in a scripting language: Ruby on Rails Preferred.
- Your background ideally is from an operational role in a large-scale production web application environment.
- Considerable experience with Linux systems administration.
- Familiarity with systems and configuration management tools (e.g. Chef and Terraform)
- Extensive experience with any enterprise monitoring systems like Nagios, Graphite, StatsD.
- Experience deploying and operating any relational database system in production.
Additional Information
We're looking to hire team members invested in realizing
the goal of making real-time data exploration easy and available to
anyone. As a distributed company, we believe that diversity drives our
vibe! Whether you're looking to launch a new career or grow an existing
one, Elastic is the type of company where you can balance great work
with great life.
- Competitive pay based on the work you do here and not your previous salary
- Stock options
- Global minimum of 16 weeks of paid in full parental leave (moms & dads)
- Generous vacation time and one week of volunteer time off
- Your
age is only a number. It doesn't matter if you're just out of college
or your children are; we need you for what you can do.
Elastic is an Equal Employment employer committed to the principles
of equal employment opportunity and affirmative action for all
applicants and employees. Qualified applicants will receive
consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion,
sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin,
age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status or
any other basis protected by federal, state or local law, ordinance or
regulation. Elastic also makes reasonable accommodations for disabled
employees consistent with applicable law.