Site Reliability Engineer

Department: Operations

Location: Atlanta

MailChimp is the world's leading email marketing service. More than 10 million people and businesses use MailChimp to design and send 1 billion emails a day. We empower small businesses with a suite of powerful and easy-to-use email, marketing automation, and analytics tools that integrate with hundreds of popular applications and services.

MailChimp is seeking application-focused engineers to join our Site Reliability Engineering team. As part of our team you will work directly with developers building our products and ensuring that performance, stability, and reliability are a core part of every release. The SRE team ensures operations run smoothly by implementing strategies with proven success and solidifying the approach for deploying large scale web applications.  The team also acts as a technical liaison between the Development and Operations teams within MailChimp.

You are an engineer with strong Linux, independent problem-solving skills, and a deep love for automation, monitoring, and configuration management.  Someone with experience in Web application development would also be a plus. You are able to contribute as an active member of a Development unit while coordinating with our Infrastructure team to ensure products are built to handle our scale and future growth. You are not expected you to have used every tool we use, but a solid conceptual understanding is fundamental. If this sounds like you, and you're interested in a chance to join the MailChimp team, we'd love to hear from you.

Skills and Experience

  • Proficiency in: 
    • Linux
    • Configuration Management tools (Puppet)
    • Monitoring Tools (Zabbix / Graphite)
    • Relational Databases (MySQL / Postgresql)
  • Experience scripting and coding (PHP, Python, Bash, Ruby)
  • Experience developing, tuning, and repairing web applications

Why Work for MailChimp?

MailChimp is a founder-owned, highly profitable, and private company located in the heart of Atlanta. We offer our 500+ employees an exceptional workplace, extremely competitive compensation, fully paid benefits (for employees and their families), and generous profit sharing. We hire humble, collaborative, and determined people, and give them endless opportunities to grow and succeed.

We love our hometown and support sustainable urban renewal. Our office is in the historic Ponce City Market, right on the Atlanta Beltline. If you'd like to be considered for this position, please apply below. We look forward to meeting you!

MailChimp is an equal opportunity employer, and we value diversity at our company. We don't discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Big and getting bigger

MailChimp has 12 million users who email 16 billion subscribers, with 12,000 new accounts created every day.

A home for square pegs

We don’t work like most tech companies, and we don’t look like them either. Our engineers have come to MailChimp from many different paths.

Benefits

We encourage our employees to live their best lives through wellness programs, education opportunities.