Principal Site Reliability Engineer

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At GoDaddy the future of work looks different for each team. Some teams work in the office full-time, others have a hybrid arrangement (they work remotely some days and in the office some days) and some work entirely remotely.

This is a remote position, so you’ll be working remotely from your home. You may occasionally visit a GoDaddy office to meet with your team for events or offsites.

This position is not eligible to be performed in Alaska, Mississippi, North Dakota, or the Virgin Islands.

Join Our Team

GoDaddy's Infrastructure Engineering team is looking for a Principal Site Reliability Engineer with a focus on building the next generation of private and public cloud infrastructure using OpenStack.

Our OpenStack platform empowers GoDaddy engineers and external customers to help small business customers start, grow, and run their ventures. Hundreds of GoDaddy teams and millions of external customers use the team's Cloud solutions daily at a global scale. If you have the passion, enthusiasm, and ability to contribute to managing that infrastructure with a focus on user experience, we would like to talk with you!

What you’ll get to do…

• Provide technical leadership for a group of engineers.
• Participate in SRE/DevOps, releases, and on-call activities to support the infrastructure, support & delight customers.
• Lead the software product development life cycle from inception to production launch and post-production support for a large-scale cloud deployment.
• Contribute to open-source projects such as OpenStack, and libvirt.
• Contribute to the technical roadmap and technical debt elimination, balancing time, resource, and quality constraints to achieve business and strategic goals and requirements.
• Join the team of talented engineers to build, run, and support the current cost-effective and robust private and public cloud infrastructures.
• Engage with engineers and partners across GoDaddy to handle disaster recovery, ongoing security challenges & security incident responses, and to solve broad impact implications.
• Translate core architecture and business requirements into technical cloud infrastructure solutions that consist of platform, network, software, cloud automation, security, etc.
• Troubleshoot code-level problems quickly and efficiently.

Your experience should include...

• Experience in working closely with a team of specialists across disciplines to design and implement high-quality software solutions.
• 7+ years of experience in one or more of the following areas: software engineering, or site reliability engineering with a focus on building cloud infrastructure
• Possess analytical and multi-task abilities to thrive in a fast-paced environment.
• Highly motivated and highly collaborative individual.
• 3+ years of experience in complex distributed networking, system performance tuning, and monitoring.
• Experience with CI/CD development using Kubernetes, Docker, etc.
• Experience with back-end services, highly distributed and scalable services, and deployment automation.
• Working within an agile development environment and strong practice of continuous delivery and integration.
• Experience with Linux.
• Experience with Deployments using Automation tooling such as Ansible or Puppet.
• Experience with Development in Python.
• Experience in virtualization technologies such as KVM, and OpenStack.
• Mentoring other engineers to develop their skills.

You might also have experience with…

• Process improvement, management, and development experience.
• Experience with Cloud platform technologies such as AWS, or Azure.
• Experience with zero-day security incidents and/or system disaster recovery.
• Experience in contributing to Open-Source projects.

We've got your back... Enjoy our many benefits (My Wallet), which may vary depending on role and tenure, including paid time off, 401k, bonus eligibility, equity grants and parental leave. Join one of our employee resource groups (Culture). Once approved, continue to have a side hustle if you have one (we love entrepreneurs, remember?). Most importantly, come as you are and make your own way.

About us... GoDaddy is empowering everyday entrepreneurs around the world by providing all of the help and tools to succeed online. GoDaddy is the place people come to name their idea, build a professional website, attract customers, sell their products and services, and manage their work. Our mission is to give our customers the tools, insights and the people to transform their ideas and personal initiative into success. To learn more about the company, visit About Us (https://aboutus.godaddy.net/about-us/overview/default.aspx.)

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