Sr. Site Reliability Engineer

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OpenSea is the first and largest marketplace forย , or NFTs
Applications for NFTs include collectibles, gaming items, domain names, digital art, and many other items backed by a blockchain
OpenSea is an open, inclusive web3 platform, where individuals can come to explore NFTs and connect with each other to purchase and sell NFTs
At OpenSea, we're excited about building a platform that supports a brand new economy based on true digital ownership and are proud to be recognized as ranked top private company
When hiring candidates, we look for signals that a candidate will thrive in our culture, where we default to trust, embrace feedback, grow rapidly, and love our work
We also know how critical it is to celebrate and support our differences
Employing a team rich in diverse thoughts, experiences and opinions enables our employees, our product and our community to flourish
We are dedicated to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status
To help facilitate this, we support remote, hybrid or onsite work at either New York City, San Francisco or the Silicon Valley for the majority of our opportunities
The goal is to accelerate the engineering lifecycle and reliability of OpenSea by utilizing necessary tools and driving platform improvements
As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you will reimagine how our company builds and deploys our marketplace as well as how we use data to make decisions, then improve our product and infrastructure to enable that new approach

What You'll Do

    • Build out scalable backend infrastructure for a cloud environment
    • Build software and systems to manage infrastructure and applications
    • Find and pursue opportunities for higher stability, efficiency and cost effectiveness
    • Build out incident management program and best practices
    • Drive requirements for and own large components of our backend system: requirements, implementation, testing and launch
    • Build out and maintain CI/CD pipelines
    • If you don't think you meet all of the criteria below but still are interested in the job, please apply
      Nobody checks every box, and we're looking for someone who is excited to join the team

Desired Skills

    • Experience in large-scale cloud systems design and engineering
    • Experience in designing and building highly available distributed applications
    • An ability to write high quality, well tested code
    • Strong network background including global routing and load balancing experience
    • Expert knowledge of AWS
    • Experience with Kubernetes
    • Excellent skills in communicating complex issues to an audience outside the infra domain, and championing strategies to key stakeholders
    • Bonus points for experience in the following: Globally distributed data storage engines, multiple cloud service providers, log collection tools and analysis, configuration management toolsets, infrastructure performance monitoring tools and optimization practices, or CDN implementation and optimization