Senior Software Engineer II, Site Reliability

Overview

Poshmark is a leading fashion resale marketplace powered by a vibrant, highly engaged community of buyers and sellers and real-time social experiences. Designed to make online selling fun, more social and easier than ever, Poshmark empowers its sellers to turn their closet into a thriving business and share their style with the world. Since its founding in 2011, Poshmark has grown its community to over 130 million users and generated over $10 billion in GMV, helping sellers realize billions in earnings, delighting buyers with deals and one-of-a-kind items, and building a more sustainable future for fashion. For more information, please visit www.poshmark.com, and for company news, visit newsroom.poshmark.com.

We’re looking for an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to fill the mission-critical role of ensuring that our complex, web-scale systems are healthy, monitored, automated, and designed to scale. You will use your background as an operations generalist to work closely with our development teams from the early stages of design all the way through identifying and resolving production issues. The ideal candidate will be passionate about an operations role that involves deep knowledge of both the application and the product, and will also believe that automation is a key component to operating large-scale systems.

6-Month Accomplishments

• Familiarize with poshmark tech stack and functional requirements.
• Get comfortable with automation tools/frameworks used within cloudops organization and deployment processes associated with.
• Gain in depth knowledge related to related product functionality and infrastructure required for it.
• Start Contributing by working on small to medium scale projects.
• Understand and follow on call rotation as a secondary to get familiarized with the on call process.
  
  

• Execute projects related to comms functionality, independently, with little guidance from lead.
• Create meaningful alerts and dashboards for various sub-system involved in targeted infrastructure.
• Identify gaps in infrastructure and suggest improvements or work on it.
• Get involved in on-call rotation.
  
  

• Serve as a primary point responsible for the overall health, performance, and capacity of one or more of our Internet-facing services.
• Gain deep knowledge of our complex applications.
• Assist in the roll-out and deployment of new product features and installations to facilitate our rapid iteration and constant growth.
• Develop tools to improve our ability to rapidly deploy and effectively monitor custom applications in a large-scale UNIX environment.
• Work closely with development teams to ensure that platforms are designed with "operability" in mind.
• Function well in a fast-paced, rapidly-changing environment.
• Participate in a 24x7 on-call rotation
  
  

• 4+ years of experience in Systems Engineering/Site Reliability Operations role is required, ideally in a startup or fast-growing company.
• 4+ years in a UNIX-based large-scale web operations role.
• 4+ years of experience in doing 24/7 support for large scale production environments.
• Battle-proven, real-life experience in running a large scale production operation.
• Experience working on cloud-based infrastructure e.g AWS, GCP, Azure.
• Hands-on experience with continuous integration tools such as Jenkins, configuration management with Ansible, systems monitoring and alerting with tools such as Nagios, New Relic, Graphite.
• Experience scripting/coding
• Ability to use a wide variety of open source technologies and tools.
  
  

• Ruby, JavaScript, NodeJs, Tomcat, Nginx, HaProxy
• MongoDB, RabbitMQ, Redis, ElasticSearch.
• Amazon Web Services (EC2, RDS, CloudFront, S3, etc.)
• Terraform, Packer, Jenkins, Datadog, Kubernetes, Docker, Ansible and other DevOps tools.