Postmates runs one of the largest real-time delivery fleets in the country. Building a software platform that is reliable, scales and stays agile under demanding product needs is a serious technical challenge. Postmates isn’t just another ad platform or mobile app for delivering static user generate content. We have real customers paying real money for a real service, all under an hour. You do not want to explain to your hungry friends why they couldn’t get their Little Star pizza delivered last night because the database failed.
As a Site Reliability Engineer, you will be responsible for the day to day technical operations of the Postmates platform. You’ll be responsible for responding to failures to reduce the impact to our customers and couriers. You’ll all also be responsible for designing and implementing the monitoring and availability for our core platform to ensure we don’t have any failures to begin with.
Our platform is currently running on Amazon Web Services. We make extensive use of Python, Go, Django, Celery, Postgres, Memcache, all managed with SaltStack.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Manage and maintain technical operations for the Postmates platform
Key participant in our 24×7 on-call rotations
Respond to systems failures and outages
Design and implement scaling, performance and availability enhancements
Systems and Application Monitoring
Provide systems design expertise to other Engineering staff
Linux operating system
Networking
Security
Databases
Application scaling and optimization
BENEFITS
Competitive salary and generous stock option plan (stay aligned with the long term value you create)
Medical, dental and vision insurance (of course) and it’s 100% paid for by the company
Whatever computer, monitor, standing desk, keyboard mouse you need
Tasty, healthy lunches (provided by Methodology, https://www.gomethodology.com
Snack-filled kitchen (mostly healthy, but very tasty)
Impact-first work environment (no politics, no pandering)
Huge company vision (we need you to build the future, not just maintain the status quo)
Contribute to open source projects (full support to release and contribute to projects)
Killer office in San Francisco close to mass transit
