Porch Group is a leading vertical software and insurance platform and is positioned to be the best partner to help homebuyers move, maintain, and fully protect their homes. We offer differentiated products and services, with homeowners insurance at the center of this relationship. We differentiate and look to win in the massive and growing homeowners insurance opportunity by 1) providing the best services for homebuyers, 2) led by advantaged underwriting in insurance, 3) to protect the whole home.
As a leader in the home services software-as-a-service (“SaaS”) space, we’ve built deep relationships with approximately 30 thousand companies that are key to the home-buying transaction, such as home inspectors, mortgage companies, and title companies.
In 2020, Porch Group rang the Nasdaq bell and began trading under the ticker symbol PRCH. We are looking to build a truly great company and are JUST GETTING STARTED.
Job Title: Senior Site Reliability Engineer (DevOps)
Location: India
Workplace Type: Remote
Job Summary
The future is bright for the Porch Group, and we’d love for you to be a part of it as our Sr. Site Reliability Engineer.
Help us build world class infrastructure in public cloud mainly GCP. As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Sr. SRE), you will be responsible for maintaining and improving the reliability and performance of our company’s technology stack. You will work closely with development teams to design scalable and highly reliable software systems. Your role will involve identifying and resolving complex issues before they impact customers, implementing automation to streamline our operations, and advocating for best practices in reliability, scalability, and maintainability. Additionally, you will lead efforts to improve monitoring and alerting processes to ensure proactive response to potential issues. As a senior member of the team, you will mentor junior engineers, drive technical initiatives, and collaborate across departments to achieve our reliability goals.
What You Will Do As A Sr. Site Reliability Engineer (DevOps)
- Build infrastructure/systems that balance operational excellence, security, reliability, performance efficiency and cost optimization.
- Improve the observability of our systems to anticipate and address issues before they become critical, leveraging strategies like infrastructure as code, system operational and health metrics, CICD pipelines and infrastructure automation.
- Contribute to DevOps roadmaps, helping balance priorities like modernizing past infrastructure, supporting new projects and deployments, and improving/hardening systems where it is needed most.
- Support our initiatives for modernizing/centralizing our cloud footprint in partnership with business, analytics, software, InfoSec, and data science teams.
- Design and enforce SDLC & Infosec & Compliance requirements.
- Assist with root cause analysis/remediation for system incidents.
- Provide support to engineering team in basic database operations (Postgres, SQL Server) in running SQL scripts, creating database objects and troubleshooting performance and connection issues.
- Support migration and consolidation of infrastructure from Azure into GCP.
What You Will Bring as A Sr. Site Reliability Engineer (DevOps)
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software or System Engineering preferred or equivalent experience.
- 8+ years of relevant experience.
- Expertise with cloud-based systems and containerized infrastructure (Linux/OS fundamentals, Kubernetes, Database systems, Cloud networking).
- Deep expertise with at least one Cloud platform required, with significant expertise with two+ (GCP and Azure) preferred.
- Expertise building common Web/Internet platform components (e.g. proxies, caches, load balancers, firewalls, app/web server tiers, DB systems).
- Unix scripting experience required and a willingness to learn/support those you may not presently know.
- Conceptual and practical knowledge with modern DevOps techniques, such as CI/CD, IaC, Configuration Management, Secrets/Vault management.
- Experience with 24x7x365 monitoring requirements, incident response, and on-call support.
- Expertise in troubleshooting that spans systems, network, and applications in a distributed/microservice environment.
- Skills in managing Java/Scala/Kotlin or other JVM-based languages, Python, and PHP preferred
- Experience with databases like Postgres and SQL Server.
- Exposure to Azure technologies like ADF, ADF Linked Services, Azure Key Vault, Azure managed identities and Azure DevOps.
- Proven experience working with US based business teams
- Excellent written and communication skills in English language.
- Ability to work within core US business hours / time zone expectations - Eastern Standard Time (EST) overlap
- Workspace: A quiet space to work, an internet connection of at least 30 Mbps download | 10 Mbps upload
The application window for this position is anticipated to close in 2 weeks (10 business days) from Sep 12, 2024. Please know this may change based on business and interviewing needs.
What You Will Get As A Porch Group Team Member
Our benefits package will provide you with comprehensive coverage for your health, life, and financial well-being.
- Our benefits include medical insurance, accident insurance and retiral benefits.
- Our wellness programs include 12 company-paid holidays, 2 flexible holidays, privilege/earned leave, casual/sick leave, paid maternity and paternity Leaves, and weekly wellness events.
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What’s next?
Submit your application below and our Talent Acquisition team will be reviewing your application shortly! If your resume gets us intrigued, we will look to connect with you for a chat to learn more about your background, and then possibly invite you to have virtual interviews. What's important to call out is that we want to make sure not only that you're the right person for us, but also that we're the right next step for you, so come prepared with all the questions you have!
Porch is committed to building an inclusive culture of belonging that not only embraces the diversity of our people but also reflects the diversity of the communities in which we work and the customers we serve. We know that the happiest and highest performing teams include people with diverse perspectives that encourage new ways of solving problems, so we strive to attract and develop talent from all backgrounds and create workplaces where everyone feels seen, heard and empowered to bring their full, authentic selves to work.
Porch is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex including sexual orientation and gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances.
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What We Do
Seattle-based Porch, the vertical software platform for the home, provides software and services to more than 28,500 home services companies such as home inspectors, moving companies, real estate agencies, utility companies, and warranty companies. Through these relationships and its multiple brands, Porch provides a moving concierge service to homebuyers, helping them save time and make better decisions on critical services, including insurance, moving, security, TV/internet, home repair and improvement, and more. To learn more about Porch, visit porchgroup.com.
