Swimlane is a rapidly growing, innovative start-up with a passionate team focused on improving the lives of IT security practitioners through security automation and orchestration. At Swimlane, we work with a cutting-edge technology stack to create and distribute products that empower Security Operations teams to automate time-consuming and repetitive tasks, allowing them to focus on the advanced security activities that are most important to their work. We’re headquartered in the Denver, CO metro area, but our employees span 23 states and 6 countries. We offer competitive salaries and benefits, along with a community-based culture of transparency and innovation. Become a Swimlaner today!
As a Site Reliability Engineer on our team, you will help design, build, maintain, and scale our new greenfield SaaS platform. As a believer of our DevOps practices, you will continue to automate all aspects of our software deployment and product delivery processes. You will report to our Infrastructure Manager and be fully remote.
Additionally, in this Site Reliability Engineer position, you will:
Help design, manage, and support our new SaaS platform
Build and manage highly reliable, redundant, secure, and scalable customer-facing infrastructure
Design, manage, and maintain tools to automate operational processes
Use monitoring tools to find problems, resolve and/or escalate to development and ensure that we exceed our SLAs
Work closely with the development and QA team throughout the technology stack
Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation
Collaborate with other developers, testers, and system engineers to ensure quality product enhancements
Optimize like crazy; squeeze every bit of performance out of our servers
Automate everything!
WHAT WE OFFER
In order for you to take care of yourself both professionally and personally, we offer a total rewards package that includes a number of great benefits, including:
Medical, dental and vision coverage paid by Company at 100% for employee & 50% for dependents
401(k) plan participation with 3% Company safe harbor contribution & 100% immediate vesting
Unlimited PTO & 12 Company paid holidays
Company paid short-term disability, long-term disability, basic life insurance, and AD&D
Health Savings Account (HSA) for eligible plan participants
Company sponsored training & professional development opportunities
Here at Swimlane, we strive to represent our five core values in all things we do:
Punch above our weight class - surprising people that we accomplished what we did with what we have
Be happy innovators - accomplishing hard things together in a fun, creative way and high five-ing at the end!
Have honesty and integrity in all things - We make decisions with the best of intentions that are right for as many stakeholders as possible
Always be leveling up - continuously improving, embracing change, and consuming information to solve those really hard problems
Move at the speed of WOW - working with a sense of urgency that doesn’t compromise quality
Requirements
Our ideal Site Reliability Engineer will have:
Proven experience supporting a SaaS platform as Infrastructure As Code
Experience building and using blue/green or canary deployment strategies
A security-first mindset when building infrastructure
Experience building and scaling Amazon EKS clusters
Experience deploying highly available applications with Kubernetes
Familiarity with monitoring and alerting solutions such as Prometheus and Grafana
Likes to code, seeking someone with development competency, ideally Python, Javascript, or C#
Knowledge of JIRA, Confluence, Docker, and Github
Good communication, presentation and collaborative problem-solving skills
Good analytical and organizational skills
Team player who has a strong desire to never do the same manual task twice
Ability to think proactively and work independently to accomplish goals
Self-motivated and able to manage multiple tasks simultaneously
To be considered for this Site Reliability Engineer role, you must have:
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Science, Mathematics, or comparable or relevant work experience
3+ years of work experience in an SRE or Infrastructure Engineer role, preferably in a fast-paced web application environment
Smart, friendly, gets stuff done
Experience in supporting a SaaS infrastructure
Experience and interest in hardware and systems; you like the nitty-gritty of web application delivery
Working knowledge of TCP/IP, HTTP, TLS, load balancing, DNS, and every step of how a web request gets from the server to the browser
Experience building critical production infrastructure with Infrastructure as Code tools such as terraform, pulumi, or CloudFormation
Hands-on experience with AWS, Google Cloud or MS Azure
Strong propensity for documentation and knowledge sharing
Intensely driven and proactive
Ability to learn quickly
Great team and business communication skills; project management communication ability
Swimlane is at the forefront of the growing market for security automation and orchestration solutions that automate and organize security processes in repeatable ways to get the most out of available resources and accelerate incident response. Swimlane offers a broad array of features aimed at helping organizations to address both simple and complex security activities, from prioritizing alerts to remediating threats and improving performance across the entire operation.