Sr Site Reliability Engineer

Gusto’s Infrastructure Engineering team enables our product teams to build impactful products by building secure, resilient, and accessible systems, using tools like AWS, terraform, and Kubernetes.

Here’s what you’ll do day-to-day:

• Design and implement production grade systems that optimize for resiliency while limiting complexity
• Establish standards and build deterministic automation while optimizing for user accessibility and system reliability
• Plan and execute complex and challenging migrations that help Gusto move forward from legacy systems to more efficient, scalable, modern designs.
• Continually improve the on call experience by proposing and implementing long term oriented solutions while optimizing for the sustainability of on call.

Here’s what we're looking for:

• 8+ years of Software Engineering / SRE experience
• Strong ability to write code in Python, Java, Typescript or Ruby.
• Strong work ethic and self starter who finds a way to operate effectively amidst ambiguity
• Systems Thinking approach to complex systems who seeks to identify small changes that can create big impact.
• Resilient problem solver capable of doing whatever it takes to get work done in service of our peers as well as the entire Gusto customer base.
• Effective communicator that can simplify complex topics and communicate persuasive ideas

Potentially Relevant Experience:

• Experience designing elegant but simple systems that optimize for resiliency, but can be easily maintained and operated upon
• Strong experience with Docker and Kubernetes
• Experience with cloud platforms like AWS (preferred), GCP, or Azure and correlated IaaS management tools such Terraform (preferred)
• Experience leading incident remediation for complex systems