Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

We are looking for the right people to join our well-funded, growing open source startup and to help us to continue to build exciting technology that makes our users happy. Right now, we are looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to join our team in Germany (Berlin or Konstanz) or US (Austin, TX).

What’s the job?

We are currently designing, building and launching our next generation of products and services in the cloud. We are looking for someone eager to be a part of this innovative process. This includes adapting our industry leading data science and analytics platform into a managed platform capable of serving thousands of users. The ability to handle Infrastructure as Code development is crucial as we strive to match our quality and functionality with innovative solutions that can address growth, cost and durability concerns. You will work in a cloud platform team interfacing with multiple development teams to drive KNIME products into production ready environments.

The key parts of the job involve:

• Using code to automate the deployment and operations of large scale SaaS systems. Experience with Kubernetes operators is a plus.
• Building out infrastructure as code using tools such as Helm, Terraform, Amazon CloudFormation and Azure ARM.
• Designing and automating systems for managing user identification and authentication for multi-tenant SaaS products.
• Setting standards for product deployments including reliability, scalability, traceability and monitoring. Communicate with product and development teams to help drive adoption.
• Instrument deployed systems for performance, reliability and cost effectiveness.
• Troubleshooting issues in live environments, providing root cause analysis and issue resolution. Automating solutions for future problem prevention when possible.
• The ability to partner with the product and development teams.

Who are you?

You are an experienced SRE, cloud operations engineer, devops engineer, solutions architect or similar who is looking for a new challenge. Ideally you have experience in several of the specialties listed below:

• BS degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
• You hold one or more current certifications on a cloud platform such as AWS, Kubernetes, Linux or similar technologies
• Strong cloud experience including advanced knowledge of AWS services including VPC, IAM, EKS, ECR, EC2, S3, RDS and CloudWatch. Experience with Azure or GCP or other cloud platforms is also of interest.
• Have experience deploying software systems to a Kubernetes environment. Have a working knowledge of Kubernetes concepts and the ability to craft deployment solutions using common Kubernetes patterns.
• Programming experience in Go, Java, Python, Shell, or a similar programming language.
• Systems level knowledge and experience with Linux. Expertise in networking, including security, routing, load balancers, and firewalls.
• Knowledge of best practices around service telemetry, including metrics aggregation, distributed logging, and tracing in large, distributed systems
• Working knowledge of OAuth/OIDC identity providers such as Keycloak
• Working knowledge of relational databases such as Postgres
• Ability to work independently and within a team environment. This includes clear and concise communication across an organization that is geographically and culturally dispersed
• Desire to learn, advocate, and adopt new technologies and patterns

What’s KNIME?

KNIME helps individuals and organizations make sense of data.
The core software provides a single intuitive environment, appropriate for anybody working with data, from the analyst to the data scientist. For business and domain experts, KNIME Software serves as a no-code platform, lifting the ceiling beyond spreadsheets and BI. For data experts, KNIME Software serves as a low-code platform, giving them access to the widest range of tools and techniques available with or without coding. The platform is complemented by enterprise-grade features that facilitate collaboration and deployment via secure apps and services.

By bridging the worlds of dashboards and advanced analytics, KNIME shortens the distance between data and action. KNIME Software empowers more business experts to be self-sufficient and more data experts to push the business to the bleeding edge of modern data science, integrating the latest AI and Machine Learning techniques. KNIME is distinct in its open approach, which ensures easy adoption and future-proof access to new technologies.

*Though we are happy to have applicants from further away, we’re not offering relocation benefits for this position.