Senior Reliability Engineer
New York, NY

Job Description

Warby Parker is searching for a thoughtful, versatile Senior Reliability Engineer to join our 60+ person in-house Engineering department. In this position, you'll support a super-collaborative team responsible for building and operating cloud infrastructure to deliver maximum performance at scale. You'll be given free reign to dive deep into our production architecture, dreaming up ways to bring more speed, efficiency, and automation to our systems. Ready to drive continuous improvement that will impact the success of our entire organization? Read on!What you'll do:

* Build cloud infrastructure, manage our production environment, and participate in our on-call rotation
* Deliver high-performance, high-scalability solutions that enable the business to move faster
* Lead or support one of our Agile teams, learning anything and everything necessary to deliver best-in-class cloud infrastructure
* Participate in code and architecture reviews to help maintain high standards of quality
* Work with other Technology teams and leaders within our company to refine best practices and processes
* Mentor other Engineers on our team

Who you are:

* Backed by at least 5 years of professional programming experience, including time at a rapidly growing e-commerce or technology organization
* Able to build large, complex, and highly maintainable systems-and you have the track record to prove it!
* Familiar with building and operating production software in the cloud at scale using Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, Azure, or a similar provider
* Knowledgeable about modern relational databases, such as PostgreSQL or MySQL
* Equipped with a solid understanding of Linux or other UNIX-like systems
* Steeped in modern systems design (you know the ins and outs of networking, DNS, CDNs, and distributed systems)
* An excellent troubleshooter and debugger
* Experienced in Agile development and Continuous Delivery
* A flexible, open-minded developer who's able and eager to learn new domains quickly

Extra credit:

* Strong knowledge of AWS, as well as infrastructure management platforms like Chef, Puppet, Ansible, CloudFormation, or Terraform
* Experience with the Site Reliability Engineering philosophy pioneered by Google
* Web application development experience

About us:

Warby Parker was founded with a lofty objective: to offer designer eyewear at a revolutionary price while leading the way for socially conscious businesses. By circumventing traditional channels and designing our frames in-house, we're able to offer top-quality glasses and sunglasses (plus an uncommonly delightful shopping experience) at a fraction of the traditional going price.