Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Close is a CRM company that has been operational since 2013, focused on creating communication-first sales software. The Site Reliability Engineer will join the Infrastructure Team to build and maintain the platform that supports all Close systems, ensuring stability and efficiency in a fully remote environment.
Responsibilities
- Fully automating our database’s lifecycles with Argo Workflow
- Eliminating all static credentials where they may be
- Reducing downtime and disruption due to maintenance or disaster to new lows
- Help us improve our multi-region disaster recovery system
Skills
- 5+ years of experience building modern infrastructure systems for Senior 1 & 2 level candidates
- 8+ years of experience for Staff level candidates
- You are respected as an expert on the systems you run
- You have been the final point of escalation in the support of mission critical production systems
- Familiarity with some of the following technologies: AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, Ansible, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch
- Strong grasp of common networking and data transfer protocols such as DNS, HTTP, TCP
- Ability to speak and write in English
- Located in the USA (ET, CT, MT, PT)
- Contributed open source code related to our tech stack
- Experience maintaining very large databases
- Been through a successful disaster response
- Experience with multi-region architectures
- Run MLOps systems
- Experience scaling Temporal
Benefits
- Compensation: Competitive pay plus an organization-wide goal-based bonus
- Paid Time Off: ~5 weeks of PTO to start. Plus a 1-week all-company Winter Holiday Break and paid US holidays. You'll earn 2 extra days for every year you're with Close.
- 80% Work Option: Work with your manager to choose between a standard 5-day week or a 4-day week at 80% pay
- Parental Leave: Paid leave for primary and secondary caregivers
- Sabbatical: A 1-month paid sabbatical every 5 years with the team
- Healthcare (US residents): Two medical plans with Close covering 99% of your premium, plus Dental, Vision, HSA, FSA, and company-paid Long-Term Disability
- 401k (US residents): We match your contributions up to 6%, vested immediately
Company Overview
A CRM for startups and small businesses with built-in sales communication tools. It was founded in 2011, and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California, USA, with a workforce of 51-200 employees. Its website is https://www.close.com.