Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Material Bank
Sample materials marketplace for architecture & design
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Sample materials marketplace for architecture & design
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
201-500 employees
Company mission
To remove the friction that exists when searching and sampling materials.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of SRE practice experience with cloud platforms/providers and Linux systems
- Implement infrastructure as code with Terraform and GitHub/CodePipeline, containerize environments using Kubernetes/ECS, and utilize cloud technologies to achieve operational goals
- Manage and troubleshoot operating systems, storage solutions, networking (VPCs, proxies, and CDNs), and administer high-availability Aurora MySQL and Redis clusters
- Implement monitoring and instrumentation using New Relic, log management systems, and integrate with Slack and OpsGenie
- Focus on engineering best practices, including availability, reliability, scalability, and disaster recovery
- Work across various programming languages such as Shell, GoLang, and/or Python
What the job involves
- SREs focus on system-level optimization (covering operating systems, storage, and networking) and implement best practices to ensure high availability, reliability, and scalability
- You’ll work on diverse challenges, ranging from algorithms to distributed systems
- Incident Response: Participate in an on-call rotation using OpsGenie to handle incidents that could impact Materialbank's availability. Support service engineers in addressing customer issues and proactively work to prevent future incidents
- Infrastructure Management: Operate and manage infrastructure with tools like Terraform, GitHub/CodePipeline CI/CD, and Kubernetes. Design, build, and maintain core infrastructure to support the growth and scalability of Materialbank, accommodating hundreds of thousands of users
- Monitoring & Automation: Develop monitoring systems that focus on early detection of potential issues. Document processes thoroughly, turning findings into repeatable actions and automated solutions
- Process Improvement: Continuously refine operational processes, such as deployments and upgrades, to ensure they are efficient and predictable
- System Debugging: Troubleshoot and resolve production issues across various services and infrastructure layers
- Scalability Planning: Strategically plan the expansion and enhancement of Materialbank's infrastructure
- Automating infrastructure management using Terraform
- Enhancing or creating new monitoring metrics with NewRelic
- Collaborating with release managers to deploy and troubleshoot new versions of Materialbank.com
- Planning and executing infrastructure deployments and improvements on AWS
- Partnering with development teams to establish SLAs, share performance data, and improve reliability through SLOs and error budgets
- Plan and manage projects using Agile methodologies, driving progress through epics and issues
- Organize workloads effectively and lead initiatives related to OKRs
- Operate autonomously, self-organizing and reporting asynchronously as needed
- Lead and contribute to the design and scope of issues, epics, and OKRs
- Contribute to and maintain documentation, including creating and updating runbooks, general documentation, and writing blog posts
- Conduct Root Cause Analysis (RCA) investigations and perform readiness reviews
- Enhance team practices through code reviews, collaborative work handoffs, and incident management
- Participate actively in the hiring process, including contributing to candidate assessments, interviews, and evaluations
- Share knowledge, mentor team members, and foster a culture of continuous learning and collaboration
- Demonstrate self-awareness, manage team conflicts constructively, and provide/receive feedback effectively
- Build and maintain positive relationships with other engineering teams at Materialbank, contributing to overall product improvement
- Take initiative and responsibility, stepping in to address challenges proactively and offering constructive feedback
Our take
Architecture and design professionals need real-world samples of the materials they intend to work with, and they need to know what they’re picking is the best fit for their project. Historically, there’s been no universal aggregator of all available materials - you’d just have to know who and where to ask. Material Bank is changing this, with a service it describes as being the Expedia of design samples.
Material Bank is the largest materials marketplace for the A&D industry. Offering a wide range of material samples from carpets to hardwoods, all sample orders have next-day delivery availability across Canada and the US, and is always free for design professionals. The company's profit comes from selling spots within its rapidly growing marketplace community to vendors and manufacturers, connecting brands with thousands of vetted design professionals.
It’s an offering with a remarkably tight market fit, demonstrated by its swelling customer base and investment funding. The company has begun its global expansion, having launched in Japan, it is focusing on growing into the European market through an office in Paris. It is also cementing its success through a M&A strategy, most recently incorporating Architizer's architectural project database into its product.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
May 2022
$175m
SERIES D
May 2021
$100m
SERIES C
Total funding: $323.2m
Company benefits
- Medical insurance
- Vision insurance
- Dental insurance
- 401(k)
- Paid maternity leave
- Commuter benefits
- Disability insurance
Company values
- Be fast, be flexible
- Take initiative and bring solutions
- Be the best at what matters
- Think big and take calculated risks
- Always be direct, operate with respect and integrity
- Enjoy the journey
Company HQ
Boca Raton, FL
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Leadership
Adam Sandow
(CEO)Is also CEO and Chairman of SANDOW.
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