Senior System Reliability Engineer

Code Climate • New York, NY

Code Climate empowers software engineering organizations to achieve excellence across people, process, and code with data-driven insights. Our Engineering intelligence products are trusted by thousands of organizations- from enterprises to startups - helping align engineering initiatives with strategic priorities, accelerate software delivery, and drive continuous improvement.

Code Climate is based in New York and was founded in 2011, by engineering leaders who were frustrated by decisions being made in the dark or by gut instinct. Code Climate envisions a world where technology leaders can drive business success through increased transparency, efficiency, and actionable data. Since the launch of our company, our automated code review tool, Quality, has helped over 100,000 developers improve their code bases. After nearly a decade, we launched our flagship product, Velocity. Velocity enables technology leaders to make confident, data-driven decisions that fuel elite team performances at scale.

As the first SRE at Code Climate, you’ll be collaborating closely with the VP of Engineering, Director of Engineering and Senior Engineers to identify and make changes that increase the security, reliability and performance of our system. The code climate Engineering team cares deeply about infrastructure and developer best practices. Our infrastructure is managed entirely by Terraform, we have a comprehensive monitoring and alerting in place using Datadog and ship to production multiple times each day using our chatops driven CI/CD system. We’re looking for an experienced SRE to join our team and take what’s in place today to the next level, as we scale to hundreds of thousands of users.

Examples of Problems You’ll Be Solving:

Build and maintain our infrastructure (with Terraform) to run our set of applications.
Infrastructure scaling strategy based on usage and stress metrics.
Responsibility of our disaster recovery plan and our infrastructure fault tolerant strategy.
Apply security patches to our AMIs on a regular basis.
Interact as an Engineer with a wide range of technologies including AWS, Docker, Postgres, Kafka/Kinesis & Ruby.

You’re Awesome Because:

You’re interested in security, reliability and infrastructure as code. You are looking for a role that gives you exposure to a broad range of challenges.
You enjoy working with others, and thrive in a dynamic fast-paced environment.
You are passionate about your work and want to contribute to building a product that impacts the software development community.
You value mentoring juniors and sharing knowledge in a blame-free environment.

Desired Qualifications:

4+ years AWS experience.
4+ years Terraform and scripting languages (e.g. Python, Ruby, BASH, …).
Proficiency in load/stress testing.
Efficient communication skills.
Experience with Kubernetes is a plus.

Working at Code Climate

New York-headquartered startup with a hybrid working environment.
Fast paced, high growth, start-up full of talented and mission driven individuals that love what they do.
Competitive salary and meaningful stock options.
Health, dental and vision insurance. We pay 100% of the premium for employees and 50% of the premium for dependents.
Flexible and generous paid time off including an open vacation policy and parental leave.
Opportunities to continue your professional development, including attending conferences.
The best technology to get your job done.

Base Salary - 145-200k / year

Backed by leading VC firms, including PSG, Union Square Ventures, Foundry Group, Lerer Hippeau Ventures, and NextView Ventures, Code Climate has raised $66M in funding to date having closed a Series C round in August 2021.

Code Climate is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with our mission of serving a diverse and global audience, we value a diverse workforce and inclusive culture which reflects that. We encourage applications from all qualified individuals without regard to race, color, religion gender, sexual orientation, gender idenity or expresion, age, national origin, maritial status, disability, and veteran status.