Site Reliability Engineer

Thinknum is one of the fastest growing web data software startups in the world. 

Thinknum creates datasets from a broad array of public online sources, capturing ephemeral information on the products, operating markets and labor markets of 400,000+ global companies across sectors, and provides rich toolsets for extracting intelligence. Thinknum has 150+ clients across major corporations and investment firms.

Thinknum's founders met at Princeton University and worked at Goldman Sachs and a hedge fund respectively before starting the company.

We are looking for an experienced and results-driven Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) with solid knowledge of infrastructure and scalability best practices. You’ll be responsible for Thinknum’s infrastructure — (including security), CI/CD & deployment tools, monitoring and observability tools while working in a fast-paced startup environment. 

This is a salaried position with full benefits. Visa sponsorship is available 

• Expand and improve our monitoring solution for our infrastructure
• Manage users, roles, and privileges through AWS IAM
• Identify and eliminate bottlenecks while ensuring the speed and reliability of our products
• Run software performance analysis and system tuning
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision
• Stay informed of and implement operational security best practices

• An obsession for building scalable, performant, and fault tolerant products
• Experience automating cloud infrastructure using tools such as Ansible, AWS Cloudformation, etc.
• Previous experience enforcing standard development processes through a proper CI workflow
• Basic programming skills
• Degree in Computer Science or related preferred
• Knowledge and experience with AWS

Major Pluses:

• Advanced knowledge in Vertica, Python 
• Azure/Google Cloud knowledge 
• Relational database tuning knowledge
• Professional or above AWS certification

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Perks and Benefits 

• Competitive compensation package
• Health & Dental Insurance for employee and their dependents
• Enrichment stipend towards learning and development for your role
• Free dinner, and kitchens stocked full of snacks
• Company happy hours, social events and outings
•  Transitcheck