Bluesky's mission is to transition the social web from platforms to protocols. We're building a federated social network where users have more power. Our team has decades of combined experience building distributed applications. As a site reliability engineer, you'll operate and shape infrastructure that powers core Bluesky services, and will be a critical part of transforming social media.

Working on Bluesky’s cloud and bare-metal systems, you’ll be charting the path for long-term availability and resilience of systems running on dense, latest-generation servers running in our own racks performing millions of queries per second—all as we rapidly scale from tens to hundreds of millions of users.

Responsibilities:

Plan the growth of Bluesky infrastructure with an eye towards availability and data durability.
Drive on practices that improve operations, especially surrounding observability, documentation, and automation.
Join the infra operational team, participating in our existing frontline on-call rotation.
Work closely with engineers who develop our core software systems.

You might be a good fit if you:

Have worked with systems running on self-hosted bare metal.
Have familiarity with the upper limits of operating systems, networks, and storage.
Have familiarity with internet-scale networking protocols like BGP and DNS-level load balancing.
Have significant experience managing database systems (e.g. Postgres, SQLite, Cassandra, ScyllaDB).
Have experience with various tools and platforms such as Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes, MaaS, and CI/CD solutions.
Have software engineering experience, particularly with Go.
Like working on small, fast-moving teams.
Have read the AT Protocol docs and want to contribute.

We're especially excited if you have:

Previous experience working on infrastructure for social apps at large scale.

We're a fully remote team, though a significant overlap of working hours with US/Pacific is required. For full-time roles, we offer health, dental, and vision insurance.

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Additional Notes:

The anticipated base salary range for this position is $150,000 - 175,000 USD excluding equity. Equity will be considered in the total compensation package. Final base salary for this role will be based on the individual’s geographic location, as well as experience level, skill set, training, licenses and certifications.

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