Staff Engineer - Site Reliability Engineer

　　About Rent the Runway 

　　Founded in 2009, Rent the Runway is disrupting the trillion-dollar fashion industry and changing the way women get dressed through the Closet in the Cloud, the world’s first and largest shared designer closet. RTR’s mission has remained the same since its founding: powering women to feel their best every day. Through RTR, customers can subscribe, rent items a-la-carte and shop resale from hundreds of designer brands. The Closet in the Cloud offers a wide assortment of millions of items for every occasion, from evening wear and accessories to ready-to-wear, workwear, denim, casual, maternity, outerwear, blouses, knitwear, loungewear, jewellery, handbags, activewear, ski wear, home goods and kidswear. RTR has built a two-sided discovery engine, which connects deeply engaged customers and differentiated brand partners on a powerful platform built around its brand, data, logistics and technology. Under CEO and Co-Founder Jennifer Hyman’s leadership, RTR has been named to CNBC’s “Disruptor 50” five times in ten years, and has been placed on Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies list four times, while Hyman herself has been named to the “TIME 100: Most Influential People in the World" and as one of People Magazine’s “Women Changing the World.”

　　Galway Office 

　　Rent The Runway established its European Technology Hub in Galway in April 2019.  Based in the historic Claddagh area of the city, the growing team in Galway tackles core technology challenges and influences the next generation of services critical to Rent The Runway’s success and continued growth. 

　　The Galway office is Rent the Runway's first international office outside the US and enables the company to significantly expand its Software Engineering, Product Development, Machine Learning Engineering and Data Science footprint. Rent The Runway’s Galway-based employees have the opportunity to grow their careers across several roles and career paths in Technology.

　　Our engineering team is smart, pragmatic, and entrepreneurial. We practice continuous integration & test-driven development, engage in constant peer code reviews & pair programming, and work hard to give back to the software community through open-source contributions.

　　Our Platform Engineering team is reliability-focused, and passionate about bringing the closet-in-the-cloud a reality. We drive the entire operational capability of creating and evangelising best practices to support largely distributed, fault-tolerant systems that serve our customers every day.

　　About the Job:

　　You will support and scale systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation, and evolve systems by endorsing reliability, self-service and velocity.  You will tackle challenging problems and scale to handle thousands of infrastructure changes to support our customer-first digital experience. You will be part of a high-impact engagement with the Platform Engineering team delivering operational excellence through system automation, self-service and developer tooling that empowers the entire organisation to deliver exceptional results for our customers.

　　What You’ll Do:

　　Utilise both Infrastructure as Code with languages like Terraform, Python, Go, Container Orchestration services including Docker and Kubernetes, and various GCP and services to drive service reliability. End-to-end coordination/testing across related suites of applications, while supporting identifying, responding, and reporting of issues then escalating to respective teams for remediation promptly. Implement software development practices to build observability, alerting, tracing, automation, and self-healing capabilities to maintain the highest levels of platform availability. Develop operations automation through CI/CD and improve the Infrastructure as Code process.  Develop GCP environments to be reliable, secure, self-healing and autoscaling. You will pair up with other engineers and own medium to large-size infrastructure projects end to end. You will produce stellar technical specs and documentation. You will participate in an on-call rotation and will identify opportunities for reducing toil and avoiding technical debt to reduce the support and operations load on the team. About You:

　　You have over 10 years of experience in a Site Reliability or DevOps like role, preferably in a hybrid public/private cloud environment. You understand the cloud infrastructure architectural requirements of large-scale, distributed, consumer-facing applications in the cloud. You have experience with orchestration technologies (such as Kubernetes, Helm, etc.). You have proficiency in at least one programming or scripting language (e.g. Python, Java, Bash). Experience with Go is a plus. You are comfortable with Docker and container orchestration platforms, preferably Kubernetes managed with Helm. You have experience with modern source control tools, preferably Git, GitHub. You are familiar with CI/CD build/deployment tools such as Jenkins or GitHub Actions, and modern deployment practices like GitOps. You have experience automating everything you can with infrastructure automation tools like Terraform, and Ansible). You are proficient when it comes to Linux and Windows system administration. You are experienced with monitoring/alerting/logging solutions (Splunk, GCP Monitoring, etc.) You are comfortable providing estimates or project ideas that will influence your team's roadmap. You are a strong collaborator. Your written communication is concise and clear with an ability to influence SRE or Platform Engineering  practices with development and operations teams. You can work in Agile environments with sprint or Kanban cadences. You know when to triage and when to dive down into a root-cause analysis Benefits:

　　At Rent the Runway, we’re committed to the happiness and wellbeing of our employees, and aim to create a workplace that fosters both personal and professional growth. Our inclusive benefits include, but are not limited to:

　　Generous Paid Time Off including annual leave, paid bereavement, and family sick leave - every employee needs time to take care of themselves and their family. Universal Paid Parental Leave for both parents + flexible return to work program  - because we know your newest family member(s) deserve your undivided attention. Paid Sabbatical after 5 years of continuous service - unplug, recharge, and have some fun. Competitive Stakeholder Pension - taking care of your future.  Comprehensive health, dental care and dependents care from day 1 of employment - Your health comes first and we’ve got you covered.  Company wide events and outings - our team spirit is no joke - we know how to have fun! Hybrid Work - our corporate employees have the option to work remotely 3 days a week, in accordance with Company policies. Rent the Runway is an equal opportunity employer. In accordance with applicable law, we prohibit discrimination against any applicant or employee on any legally-recognised basis, including, but not limited to: gender, marital status, family status, age disability, sexual orientation, race, religion, and membership of the Traveller community.

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