Senior Software Engineer (Site Reliability Engineering)

Join Thumbtack's Site Reliability Engineering team as a Senior Software Engineer. In this role, you will design and support resilient systems, prioritize high performance and availability, and collaborate across the business. You will have a significant impact on Thumbtack's ecosystem and contribute to the future direction and success of the engineering platform. Enjoy a virtual-first working model, generous benefits, and a mission-driven culture.

• Design and support resilient systems, prioritizing high performance, availability, and throughput, with a focus on minimizing service disruptions, downtime, and latency.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to build Thumbtack’s ecosystem of platform services that have the right impact at the right time.
• Set the architectural direction of infrastructure and platform services while supporting the engineering organization, and contribute to the evolution and performance of capabilities provided to engineering as a platform organization.
• Ability to decompose complex problems while understanding the tradeoffs necessary to deliver impact
• Passion for reducing toil and improving developer experience
• Extensive fluency in AWS and Linux
• Demonstrable knowledge of instrumenting, operating, and observing a distributed system of microservices in a production cloud environment
• 5 years of experience managing infrastructure and systems
• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively to cross functional partners of various technical levels
• Ability to effectively read, write, and debug code in programming languages like but not limited to: Python, Go, PHP, Javascript
• Expertise in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems across web technologies like: DNS, TLS, HTTP/S, TCP/IP