Site Reliability Engineer

Posted Jan 3

Overview:

As a Site Reliability Engineer at Weedmaps you will work cross-departmentally with your partners on the application, infrastructure and quality teams to enhance the performance, reliability, resilience and scalability of the web services that make up Weedmaps.com. We are a cloud native organization with 100% of our services in Docker running on Kubernetes in AWS’ public cloud. We also leverage observability, monitoring, CI/CD automation and custom tooling to push multiple production releases a day.

Your day to day focus will be leveraging your engineering skills to assist in the building out, monitoring, reducing developer toil, configuring CI workflows and improving our deployment pipelines. You will also be a knowledge reference for our development teams to ensure they are leveraging consistent tooling for metrics, logging, build, and deployment. You will work closely with the development and infrastructure teams to identify the essential service-specific metrics (beyond the golden metrics) that need to be monitored and work with application development teams to create libraries to allow services to easily instrument their services.

This role to be based in Irvine, CA or Denver, CO, or remote.

The impact you'll make:

  • Collaborate with stakeholders to drive best practices for monitoring, CI/CD pipelines
  • Troubleshoot deployment issues in our CI pipeline
  • Advocate emphatically for the DevOPS culture here at Weedmaps
  • Identify areas for automation and embrace the codification of all things
  • Evangelize best practices around collaboration, reliability, security and performance to all partner teams
  • Take ownership of the application configuration/scaling for given services to ensure that they are following the established practices of the organization
  • Create and refine synthetic monitoring flows

What you've accomplished:

  • Minimum 2 years of development experience at startup/mid-sized companies
  • Proficiency in Python, Go, Node, Ruby or Elixir
  • Knowledge of containerization, particularly Docker (Kubernetes is a plus)
  • Effective communication skills, a positive attitude, and ability to give and receive constructive feedback
  • Professional experience with cloud native observability standard such as Open metrics, Open tracing and Open Census
  • Expertise using/configuring modern CI/CD workflows
  • Intimate understanding of SLIs, SLOs and SLAs from the service level to the business level
  • Intimate understanding of the golden metrics, how to monitor and alert on them
  • Deep understanding of the GitHub branching strategy
  • Experience troubleshooting containerized applications
  • Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code, automation and configuration

Bonus Points:

  • Familiarity with cloud infrastructure concepts (AWS, GCS)
  • Experience with Hashicorp tools such as Terraform, Consul, Vault
  • Computer science or other engineering background
  • Experience with CI tools such as CircleCi, Jenkins, Travis, Drone, Semaphore, etc.
  • Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as with tools like Prometheus, CloudWatch, DataDog, and Grafana

The base pay range for this position is $127,000.00 to $145,000.00 per year

2024 Benefits for Full Time, Regular Employees:

  1. Physical Health benefits: Medical, Dental & Vision:
  2. Employee - employer paid premium 100%
  3. Company contribution to a HSA when electing the High Deductible Health Plan
  4. For plans that offer coverage to your dependents, you pay a small contribution
  5. Mental Health benefits:
  6. Free access to CALM app for employees and dependents
  7. Employee Training
  8. Mental Health seminars and Q&A sessions
  9. Basic Life & AD&D - employer paid 1x salary up to $250,000
  10. 401(k) Retirement Plan (with employer match contribution)
  11. Generous PTO, Paid Sick Leave, and Company Holidays
  12. Supplemental, voluntary benefits
  13. Student Loan Repayment/529 Education Savings - including a company contribution
  14. FSA (Medical, Dependent, Transit and Parking)
  15. Voluntary Life and AD&D Insurance
  16. Critical Illness Insurance
  17. Accident Insurance
  18. Short- and Long-term Disability Insurance
  19. Pet Insurance
  20. Family planning/fertility
  21. Identity theft protection
  22. Legal access to a network of attorneys
  23. Paid parental leave

Why Work at Weedmaps?

  • You get to work at the leading technology company in the cannabis industry
  • You get to play a meaningful role in helping to advance cannabis causes, including helping improve the lives of patients who rely on the benefits of cannabis
  • You get an opportunity to shape the future of the cannabis industry
  • You get to work on challenging issues in a collaborative environment that encourages you to do your best 
  • You get to work in a casual and fun environment; no fancy clothes required, but you are free to dress to the nines!
  • Generous PTO and company holidays
  • Numerous opportunities and tools to learn and grow your professional skills
  • Endless opportunities to network and connect with other Weedmappers through speaker series, Employee Resource Groups, happy hours, team celebrations, game nights, and much more!

Weedmaps is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit. The Company prohibits unlawful discrimination against employees or applicants based on race (including traits historically associated with race, such as hair texture and protective hairstyles), religion and religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, military status, veteran status, uniformed service member status, sexual orientation, transgender identity, citizenship status, pregnancy, or any other consideration made unlawful by federal, state, or local laws. The Company also prohibits unlawful discrimination based on the perception that anyone has any of those characteristics, or is associated with a person who has or is perceived as having any of those characteristics. Our company uses E-Verify to confirm the employment eligibility of all newly hired employees. To learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities, please visit www.dhs.gov/E-Verify.

Applicants are entitled to reasonable accommodations under the terms of the Americans with Disabilities Act and applicable state/local laws, unless the accommodation presents undue hardship. Please email us at peopleoperations at weedmaps.com if you would like to confidentially discuss a potential accommodation during the interview process.

About Weedmaps:

WM Technology, Inc.’s (Nasdaq: MAPS) mission is to power a transparent and inclusive global cannabis economy. Now in its second decade, WM Technology has been a driving force behind much of the legislative change we’ve seen in the past 10 years.

Founded in 2008, WM Technology, is a leading technology and software infrastructure provider to the cannabis industry, comprising a B2C platform, Weedmaps, and B2B software, WM Business. The cloud-based SaaS solutions from WM Business provide an end-to-end operating system for cannabis retailers. WM Business’ tools support compliance with the complex, disparate, and constantly evolving regulations applicable to the cannabis industry. Through its website and mobile apps, WM Technology provides consumers with the latest information about cannabis retailers, brands, and products, facilitating product discovery and driving engagement with our retail and brand customers.

WM Technology holds a strong belief in the power of cannabis and the importance of enabling safe, legal access to consumers worldwide. Since inception, WM Technology has worked tirelessly, not only to become the most comprehensive platform for consumers, but to build the software solutions that power businesses compliantly in the space, to advocate for legalization, social equity, and licensing in many jurisdictions, and to facilitate further learning through partnering with subject matter experts on providing detailed, accurate information about the plant.

Headquartered in Irvine, California, WM Technology supports remote work for all eligible employees. Visit us at www.weedmaps.com.

Notice to prospective Weedmaps job applicants:

Our team has been made aware of incidents involving LinkedIn, Telegram, and Facebook accounts impersonating Weedmaps recruiters. These individuals are attempting to use our company name to solicit payment from prospective candidates interested in applying for jobs at our company. Our team is actively working to combat these attempts, but in the meantime, please be mindful of the following:

  • Our recruiters will always communicate with candidates through an @weedmaps.com email address.
  • CORRECT: jlebowski@weedmaps.com
  • INCORRECT: jlebowski@gmail.com
  • Our recruiters will NEVER ask for or attempt to solicit payment from applicants in order to apply, interview, or work for Weedmaps.
  • If you are interested in a role at Weedmaps, please apply through our established channels.
  • Weedmaps Careers Page or LinkedIn

If you are unsure if a communication is legitimate, please contact our recruitment team at talentops@weedmaps.com and they will happily confirm for you. Thank you for your vigilance and we appreciate your interest in working with us!