SRE / DevOps Engineer

About Whisk

Whisk is the thriving cooking community available on iOS/Android, Web and Samsung hardware (Whisk was acquired by Samsung in 2019). Today we reach millions of users across many markets and languages.

Our team is approx 100 people - mostly product and engineering. We’re 100% distributed - with people based in LA, UK, Russia, Serbia, Korea, Tel Aviv and a few places in between. We’ve been working in a distributed way since 2016 and have pioneered many distributed working practices.

About the role

We’re looking for an SRE / DevOps Engineer to join Whisk Infrastructure team of 3 highly skilled engineers. 

Infrastructure Team — provides a technical platform to help product teams reach Company goals. 

This includes:

• Data pipelines architecture
• Performance improvements 
• Server and cloud infrastructure
• Code infrastructure
• Observability infrastructure
• Improvements and support CI / CD etc.

Our stack:

• Google Cloud + small amount of VMs (CI, ML, analytics)
• Stateless services running in Kubernetes (~60) communicating using  gRPC and Thrift (legacy). Exposed using HTTP and gRPC API.
• Google Cloud PubSub
• ClickHouse
• ML services (batch + realtime) with a bit of C++/Rust
• Databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, ElasticSearch

Team focus/ Responsibilities

• Further development of CI/CD
• Continuous scalability and performance improvements
• Geo distribution across USA, Europe and Asia-Pacific
• Everything-as-a-Code. Minimize manual actions.
• On-demand creation of development environments

Required skills:

• You have experience in the Devops / SRE role from 3 years  
• Cloud Solutions (VMs, networking, load balancing, etc.)
• Kubernetes, kustomize, Helm - from 2 years 
• Terraform, Ansible(Chef/SaltStack/Puppet)
• JVM,
• Experience in operations of different types of Databases (Relational, Document, KV, Columnar), 
• Building High availability systems 
• Proficiency in English. 

Type of Work

• Contract-based (Long-term project), full-time (40 hours per week),
• 100% remote, we are open for applications from any country
• Time zone preferred: any which, allows you to work comfortably with GMT+3