Sr Infrastructure / DevOps Engineer at Benzinga

A production engineer is a developer who thinks deeply about systems and how they behave in the wild. Whether it be networking, or the Linux kernel, or even a specific interest in scaling, algorithms, or distributed systems. You are a systems engineer who aims to code themselves out of a job by automating all the things and leverages great development practices like Test-Driven-Development or continuous integration (to start with).

Like all engineers at Benzinga, we expect you to be comfortable operating within our application and service environments. While your primary focus will be on defining, building, and maintaining our robust and scalable infrastructure, you will collaborate closely with development teams to ensure seamless integration and deployment. While there’s plenty of work for you to do upfront on our infrastructure, your true effect at Benzinga is the creation of a reliable, high-performing platform that supports the amazing products our users come to know and love.

Responsibilities

Infrastructure Responsibilities

Radiate knowledge about the service's infrastructure and reliability to the rest of the development team.
Identify parts of the system that do not scale, provide immediate palliative measures and drive long term resolution of these incidents.
Plan the growth of Benzinga's infrastructure.

Development/Deployment Responsibilities

Document every action so your learnings turn into repeatable actions and then into automation.
Improve the deployment process to make it as boring as possible.
Define, provision, and manage our production infrastructure using Kubernetes and Terraform.

Security Responsibilities

Proactively identify and reduce security risks
Develop security training and guidance to internal development teams
Ability to discover and patch SQLi, XSS, CSRF, SSRF, authentication and authorization flaws, and other web-based security vulnerabilities
Knowledge of common authentication technologies including OAuth, SAML, CAs, OTP/TOTP
Adhere to SOC2 compliance standards and assist with ongoing auditing and reporting.

Production Responsibilities

Design, build and maintain core infrastructure pieces that allow Benzinga to scale to support thousands of concurrent users.
Be on an on-call rotation to respond to benzinga.com availability incidents and provide support for service engineers with customer incidents.
Debug production issues across services and levels of the stack.

Monitoring Responsibilities

Make monitoring and alerting alert on symptoms and not on outages.
Manage day-to-day maintenance and evolution of Benzinga's Prometheus monitoring and alerting infrastructure
Bundle Prometheus monitoring as an out-of-the-box monitoring solution for Benzinga products
Build and maintain the benzinga.com public monitoring gateway
Help migrate our current performance monitoring solution to Prometheus
Improve coverage of Benzinga performance monitoring
Create automated alerts to notify team members of regressions

Requirements

Experience with Kubernetes required
Experience with some of these technologies a must: EKS, Terraform, GitLab CI/CD, OpenSearch/Elasticsearch, Postgres, MySQL, Kafka, BigQuery, Python, NodeJS, Go, Java, Prometheus, Grafana, Coralogix, Varnish, Fastly, Cloudfront, Nginx, Kong
You can reason about software, algorithms, and performance from a high level.
You have experience thinking about systems - edge cases, failure modes, behaviors, and specific implementations.
You have worked with distributed systems and have a solid understanding of how modern web stacks are built, and why.
You know your way around Linux and the Unix Shell.
Strong communication skills
Experience with managing large amounts of telemetry
Experience developing time-series databases
Self-motivated with strong organizational skills

Life at Benzinga

We help millions of people improve their trading and investing results each month by providing superior market information, data and tools. Benzinga gives traders and investors the edge needed to profit in the markets. We are devoted to the ambitious mission of transforming the financial industry and empowering the individual investor.

Benzinga's core businesses include: Financial Media: http://benzinga.com Trading & Research Terminal: http://pro.benzinga.com Financial, Market, and Alternative data APIs: http://cloud.benzinga.com

Our KICK ASS team works and hustles harder than anyone! We are looking for folks with the fire and determination to not just work, but to build a company. Individuals who can take a vision, and build towards it...not just take tasks from a higher power. The search for the driven, dedicated, and self-starting Zingers to help propel Benzinga to the next level is on!

Are you looking for your work to be valued? Do you want to know that the work you do everyday makes a huge impact on the business? You are not just a number here at Benzinga, our ?leave your ego at the door?, teamwork-oriented environment allows you to be yourself and offer all your sweetest ideas and feedback freely without any judgement. Zinger Nation believes in "doarchy"? not "hierarchy"?.

If you are interested in doing business with Benzinga or joining the team, please contact us.

Check our careers site at jobs.benzinga.com

Thrive Here & What We Value

Building a strong personal brand in the financial media space

Community engagement through audience interaction

Exceptional communication skills

High-quality, specialized content for investors

Bridging Wall Street and Main Street

Insightful, actionable content contribution

Valuable connections between audience and advertisers

Lead generation business innovation

Fast-paced sales environment with skill development

Dynamic redefinition of financial information through advertising

Sr Infrastructure / DevOps Engineer