Infrastructure and Site Reliability Engineer

Bay Area or Remote in the US
Software Development /
Full-time /
Remote
Observable is redefining how businesses create and share data apps by giving developers the tools they need to create their best dashboards, applications, and reports. Our open-source Framework allows developers to build dashboards locally while our secure hosting service makes it easy for teams to share data apps and discover deeper insights together. We have a large community of data practitioners who love Observable, and we are building on this success to bring Observable to more teams and businesses of all sizes.

Observable is seeking a full-time infrastructure and site reliability engineer to help improve, administrate, and grow Observable systems as we scale to meet our customer’s needs.

What you will do

    • Perform site reliability and ops work for Observable production and staging environments. (Manage servers! Tweak WAF rules! Optimize SQL queries! And more!)
    • Design and implement new infrastructure and processes to support our growing cloud services.
    • Participate in oncall rotation, monitoring Observable systems and responding to production issues.

Some of the technology we use

    • Cloud services: AWS, Cloudflare, Heroku
    • Databases: PostgreSQL, Snowflake, Airbyte, and our own data connectors and loaders to a variety of backends
    • Monitoring and logs: Datadog, Sentry
    • Containers: Docker
    • Code: Node, TypeScript, and JavaScript

What you will bring

    • 3+ years of related experience working with production systems, security best practices, etc
    • An enthusiasm for data, visualization, and technology
    • Excitement! We are a startup that recently embarked on a new product direction (see the announcement for Observable 2.0). We’re building cool things and we want your help.


Join our team!

Observable’s end-to-end solution includes our open-source Framework that developers use to build performant, expressive data apps; a platform for hosting projects; and tools to manage the data workflow. Our team is fully remote and we strive to foster a culture that is collaborative and data-driven while being fast-paced.

Thank you for your interest! 🙏 We can’t wait to hear from you.