Site Reliability Engineer (AWS)

Location: Remote for US-based candidates

Base compensation: $160,000–$190,000 per year, plus variable compensation and company RSUs.

Company

DeviantArt is an online social network for artists and art enthusiasts, founded in 2000 and part of Wix since 2017, with more than 86 million registered users worldwide.

What you will do

• Architect and maintain auto-scaling AWS infrastructure supporting more than 1.5 billion monthly page views.
• Improve platform availability, respond to incidents, and resolve performance degradation and service outages.
• Scale, maintain, and troubleshoot sharded MySQL databases and search infrastructure such as Vespa.ai.
• Build zero-downtime CI/CD pipelines with Terraform, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions, and CodeBuild, while maintaining production-parity development environments.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration management with documentation and automated testing.
• Strengthen security, mitigate targeted DDoS attacks, optimize cloud costs, and participate in a three-engineer 24/7 on-call rotation.

Requirements

• At least 10 years of experience working with systems at scale in DevOps, Platform Engineering, or Site Reliability Engineering.
• Excellent analytical and troubleshooting skills for complex problems and system bottlenecks across frontend and backend systems, including production degradation and outages.
• Exceptional command-line Linux skills.
• In-depth knowledge of AWS, Terraform infrastructure as code, and Kubernetes container orchestration.
• Experience building Docker images and composing Helm charts.
• Proficiency in Python and Bash for scripting and automation.
• Experience with sharded MySQL databases.
• Experience with security compliance standards for large-scale web infrastructure and DDoS mitigation strategies.
• Proactive identification and prevention of downtime or performance degradation, plus strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Nice to have

• Experience with GitOps tools and methodologies.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote work for US-based candidates.
• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and life benefits.
• Flexible paid time off and emotional and mental health support programs.
• Nutrition, fitness, and productivity allowances.
• 401(k) matching with no vesting period.
• RSUs for employees and eligibility for the discounted employee stock purchase plan.