Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Platform

Remote – United States

Who we are

Kentik is the network intelligence platform for modern infrastructure teams. Unlike traditional monitoring and observability tools, we demystify complex network operations, enabling organizations to deliver applications and innovation at scale. Built by network experts to make critical insight accessible to every engineer, Kentik is the real-time source of truth that understands every network in context — from data center to cloud to the internet. This single platform unifies and correlates cloud, device, flow, synthetic data to turn telemetry into action. Market leaders like Akamai, Booking.com, Dropbox, and Zoom rely on Kentik to run, manage, and optimize their networks.

What we do

Kentik is looking for an experienced software engineer to join our Infrastructure team.This team is in charge of the software stack that powers Kentik - from configuration management and orchestration, to datastores and data pipelines, developer experience and internal observability. We are an international group of collaborative, experienced developers and operations practitioners, with broad and deep knowledge of networks, systems and applications. If you're a senior engineer looking to move to a staff+ role, this will be a great opportunity! You will get to work with the rest of engineering, as well as product management and field engineers.

What you'll do

You will work on a very broad and diverse set of problems and technologies critical to the smooth operation of Kentik, the productivity and happiness of other engineers and the growth of our Engineering organization.

Build self-service, declarative and API-driven infrastructure components in go, nodejs
Contribute to our internal deployment tooling (mostly python CLI tools) and service orchestration platform based on Envoy, Nomad and other Hashicorp components
Help formulate and execute our strategy for datastores such as postgres, kafka, redis (reliability, performance, overhead, capacity planning,)
Improve the reliability of our services, with code and testing improvements as well as internal advocacy and education
Mentoring of junior team members
Create and update technical documentation for infrastructure
Be on the on-call escalation path for services owned by the team

What you'll bring

Studies have shown that some candidates tend to apply to jobs only if they meet 100% of the qualifications. We encourage you to apply if you meet most of the criteria - even if you dont match all of the qualifications, your skills and experience could be valuable in this role!

8+ years of relevant experience
Passion for building and providing amazing tools and platforms to other engineers
Strong coding skills in Go or Python(alternatively: server-side javascript, ruby, java )
Significant experience with data ecosystems and tools, cloud or on-prem
An SRE mindset and and the intent to build reliable, easy to operate systems

Nice to haves:

Familiarity with Temporal (or similar workflow engines) for managing workflow execution and durable execution experience
Most our systems run on Linux bare-metal hosts managed with puppet - so any experience with that is a plus

Our tech stack

Our core data engine and platform are primarily written in Go
We use Node.js + Express for application serving, and React as our primary UI framework
We also use some JS and Python for tooling/scripting
In addition to our own database, we use Postgres, Kafka, Mysql, and Redis
Internal and public APIs expose both rest/json and gRPC endpoints
Haproxy, Envoy for API traffic routing and balancing
Github for source control , PRs , issues
Jenkins for automated builds

What we offer

Kentik is a fully remote company that operates globally. We seek professionals that will help us thrive as an organization ,and in turn ,to broadenand enhance your career .Were very thorough in the interview process to understand your skillsand how they will relateto your successful growth here at Kentik .Our compensation philosophy encompasses a fair program for all inorderto attract ,engageand retain talented individuals who will drive our businessand wow our customers. The compensation range for this position is: $165 ,000 - $200 ,000.This range reflects the lowand high endof the U.S.compensation range Kentik reasonablyand generally expects topaythe hired candidatein this role .The actual compensation offered may be loweror higher than thestated rangedependingon various factors ,including but not limitedto:

Experience withthe skill sets requiredfor success
Demonstrated competenciesand potential

- geographic market-based approach In additionto a great career opportunity,Kentik offers stellar benefitsfor ouremployees which include: - 100%of premiums are paidby companyfor health ,visionand dental coverageforyouandyour dependents - Additionallyan annual Health Reimbursement Account(HRA)of $3 ,000for an individualor $4 ,500for afamily - Paid family & medical leave - Open PTO,a quarterly Wellness Day,and aminimumof 10 paid holidays - 401(k) retirement account - Home office reimbursement - Stock options *Note:* Benefits areas listed forall US full-time employees.For compensation,international applicantswill be treated equitablyin relationto the laws applicable withinthe countriesin whichwe operate.

Come work with us

The true meaningof Kentikis visibility.Were committed tomaking sure everyone feels empowered touse their voice ,has a senseof belonging ,andis represented at Kentik. We dont lookfor individuals who fitthe culture,but those who will continueto add tothe culture.We encourage everyoneto apply ,especially those individuals whoare underrepresented inthe industry : peopleof color,LGBTQI+ community,women ,individualswith disabilities(both seenand unseen), veterans,and peopleof any age or family status. Kentikis committedtocreatingan inclusive interview process.If you requirea reasonable accommodation duringthe application or interview process ,please reach outtorecruiting@kentik.com. Comeasyou are!You will be working ata fast-growing ,well-funded startup alongside industry thought leadersand network aficionadosas webuildthe futureof observabilityand setthe high barfor how network operationsand digital businessesshould run.Witha competitive salaryand amazing benefits ontopof themeaningfuland challenging projectsyoull takeon,were sureyoull enjoy joiningthe Kentik team.