Software Engineer, SRE

About Us: 

Sauce Labs is the leading provider of continuous test and error reporting solutions that give companies the confidence to develop, deliver and update high quality software at speed.  The Sauce Labs Continuous Testing Cloud identifies quality signals in development and production, accelerating the ability to release and update web and mobile applications that look, function and perform exactly as they should on every browser, operating system and device, every single time.  Sauce Labs is a privately held company funded by TPG and Riverwood Capital.

The Role:

If you are passionate about new technologies, have a strong technical background, and are looking for an engaging environment where you can continuously expand your knowledge, you are the right fit for this role. The SRE team at Sauce Labs is looking for a quality-driven software or infrastructure engineer who is ready to constantly challenge themselves by working on a wide variety of DevOps technologies. The Site Reliability Engineering Team is a select group of technologists from varied backgrounds that is always striving to do the right thing for all our internal and external customers. The team provides a unique opportunity to work on public and private cloud technologies, software, and systems while working side by side with our engineering teams to launch new features with a focus on scalability, reliability, and security.

Key Responsibilities:

• Participate in all team ceremonies and collaborate in cross-team initiatives as needed
• Participate in an on-call rotation for incident response
• Optimize processes and systems with a bias toward reduced toil and increased autonomy
• Implement and maintain solutions with an ownership mentality
• Break down medium-sized work into concrete deliverables
• Champion and support a security-first ethos
• Support solutions and systems across a wide range of technologies

About You:

You are capable of breaking down medium-sized bodies of work into manageable, discreet items with a view of approximately one month out.  You thrive in a mostly structured environment that is occasionally subject to interruption.  You want to create systems and tools that are designed to enable others in a self-service environment.  You have exemplary communication and interpersonal skills.

You have extensive experience with the following:

• Metrics, Logging, and Tracing (Prometheus, Thanos, OpenTelemetry, Tempo, LGTM Stack, or Similar)
• Kubernetes
• Helm or Kustomize
• Incident Response

You have strong experience with at least 2 of the following:

• Programming in Python or Go
• Identifying and driving SLOs
• Linux performance tuning
• Large-scale or distributed systems design
• Distributed systems and hybrid cloud troubleshooting
• Security systems such as Web Application Firewalls, Intrusion Detection/Prevention, and Firewalls

You have some experience with at least 2 items selected from a combination of the previous list or the following:

• Terraform
• GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar
• Leadership skills
• Network-level troubleshooting

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Security responsibilities at Sauce:

At Sauce, we will commit to supporting the health and safety of employees and properties, partnering with internal stakeholders to learn and act on ever-evolving security protocols and procedures. You’ll be expected to fully comply with all policies and procedures related to security at the department and org-wide level and exercise a ‘security first’ approach to how we design, build & run our products and services.