Spotify, New York, Site Reliability Engineer, Full time, on site.
We want to connect millions of people with their favorite songs and create a service that people love to use. As a Systems Engineer working on Spotify’s Site Reliability Engineering Team, your mission will be to ensure Spotify is always fast, available, and scalable.
The primary mission of the Site Reliability Engineering Team is to make sure that the music never stops streaming. In order to achieve this, you will have the opportunity to work with many different teams at Spotify. You will be involved in architecting and designing new systems and driving improvements to existing ones. You’ll have a unique chance to work with large-scale systems in a very fast-growing environment.
Responsibilities
Work in our Site Reliability Engineering team, focusing on automation and maintainability at large scale to keep the music playing
Work with a service platform built with Open Source Software
Help us strategically scale our data centers and networks to reach more and more users around the world
Troubleshoot and analyze applications, networks, and hardware
Collaborate with development teams to ensure all systems are built to scale along with our user growth, acting as a stakeholder.
Requirements
Bachelors degree in Computer Science or relevant work experience
Linux: the internals of the kernel, the intricacies of userland, and the ins and outs of packaging
Networking protocols at all layers of the stack
High availability, high performance, high security, and where each needs to be applied
Spotify - within Operations in Stockholm, Sweden - Service Reliability Engineer
We want to connect millions of people with their favourite songs and create a service that people love to use. We believe music should be easily accessible and that listening to music will make people live richer lives. We want to create a win-win situation for people who love listening to music and people who love creating music.
Our work environment is exciting, informal, friendly, fun, and very demanding. As an operations engineer you are part of the operations team working on the development and maintenance of the Spotify production environment.
The primary mission of the operations team is to make sure that the music never stops streaming.
Working at Spotify you get an unique chance to work with very large scale systems, millions of users and an incredibly fast-growing environment. Key areas of focus are: automation, a structured approach to system development and a sense for building scalable systems.
The system which feeds all these streams is a diverse and technically challenging environment. The service we operate is comprised of a large number of applications running on hundreds of servers in multiple locations around the world. Our platform is built with a special focus on scalability, using mostly Free/Libre Open Source Software.
Responsibilities
With all this in mind, we are looking for a colleague who will shoulder the following responsibilities:
Making sure Spotify works.
Development and design of the systems used to operate Spotify, with a focus on automation and maintainability at large scale.
Deployment of hardware and software in the production environment.
Troubleshooting and analysing applications, networks and hardware.
Collaboration with the development team on operations-related issues, providing support and acting as stakeholder.
Requirements
The ideal candidate is hardworking, motivated and responsible. A university education is a plus but not required- most important is the desire and motivation to learn, strong sense of ownership and drive.
Very good understanding of Linux/Unix based server systems.
Experience with configuration management tools for example: Puppet, Chef, cfengine or FAI.
Deep knowledge of IP-networking.
Experience with maintaining and troubleshooting complex and critical IT-systems.
Very sharp analytical skills.
Excellent written and spoken English skills.
Knowledge of at least one scripting language (bash, perl, python, etc)
Debian GNU/Linux knowledge a plus.
Experience with revision control systems a plus.
This is a full time position, working out of our Stockholm, Sweden location. When applying, please include your skype id and provide all documents in PDF or TXT format.
We want to connect millions of people with their favorite songs and create a service that people love to use. As a Systems Engineer working on Spotify’s Site Reliability Engineering Team, your mission will be to ensure Spotify is always fast, available, and scalable.
The primary mission of the Site Reliability Engineering Team is to make sure that the music never stops streaming. In order to achieve this, you will have the opportunity to work with many different teams at Spotify. You will be involved in architecting and designing new systems and driving improvements to existing ones. You’ll have a unique chance to work with large-scale systems in a very fast-growing environment.
Responsibilities
Work in our Site Reliability Engineering team, focusing on automation and maintainability at large scale to keep the music playing
Work with a service platform built with Open Source Software
Help us strategically scale our data centers and networks to reach more and more users around the world
Troubleshoot and analyze applications, networks, and hardware
Collaborate with development teams to ensure all systems are built to scale along with our user growth, acting as a stakeholder.
Requirements
Bachelors degree in Computer Science or relevant work experience
Linux: the internals of the kernel, the intricacies of userland, and the ins and outs of packaging
Networking protocols at all layers of the stack
High availability, high performance, high security, and where each needs to be applied
Configuration management tools (Puppet, Chef, Salt, etc)
System automation with scripting languages
Revision control systems
Databases (PostgreSQL, Cassandra, MySQL, etc)
Out of the box solutions for problems most haven’t encountered
Excellent written and verbal communication
Debian GNU/Linux knowledge a plus
https://www.spotify.com/us/jobs/view/oqqSWfwo/