Site Reliability Engineer at Pier 1 Imports (Fort Worth, TX)

Pier 1 Imports is looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to help us build something great. Reliability Engineers are the guardians of solid operational practices within the engineering organization. Be it build, test, deploy, monitor, alert, or anything else in that space, Reliability Engineers dictate the tempo.

We have a healthy mix of PaaS, legacy, and in-house technologies that work together to enable the full range of capabilities needed to successfully drive a retail business. Whether its building scalable microservices to power a variety of experiences, architecting customer-facing websites and apps, tuning databases, or integrating HMIs and device-specific software we do it all.

As a Reliability Engineer, you will be part of an engineering team that supports 24/7/365 commerce and requires operational excellence to succeed.

Duties & Responsibilities

You will routinely be:

• Managing the build and deploy infrastructure for multiple software engineering teams.
• Designing, building and managing the telemetry, monitoring, and alerting systems.
• Documenting your decisions. Empower others with knowledge.
• Improving the team. We can always be faster with higher quality. We can always tighten iteration cycles. You can help us get there.
• Working with open source software. Removing proprietary software wherever possible.
  
  

Education & Experience

Things with which you should be familiar:

• Designing cloud-native software. Node-level fault-tolerance. Lifecycle hooks.
• Design considerations for scalable, asynchronous microservices.
• CI/CD - why its important and how it impacts distributed software development organizations
• Infrastructure-as-code/immutable infrastructure, configuration-as-code, idempotency
• Telemetry, tracing, logging, and alerting best-practices.
• Internet fundamentals. HTTP/s, DNS, TCP/IP, security-by-design, caching.

Technologies we like:

• GCP/AWS, Netflix OSS
• Java, GoLang, Javascript, Python
• Linux, Kubernetes, Docker, Ansible, Hashicorp products
• Redis, Memcached, Rabbit, Kafka
• Postgres, MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server (in descending order of affinity)
• GitLab, Atlassian products

Things you bring with you:

• 1-3 years of experience in a similar role
• Expertise in cloud infrastructure, cloud software deployment patterns, containerization, CI/CD, and telemetry best-practices
• Experience with technologies like ansible, puppet, chef, Docker, Hashicorp products
• Experience with orchestration platforms (Kubernetes)

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