Kentik
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Who we are
Kentik is the network intelligence platform for modern infrastructure teams. Unlike traditional monitoring and observability tools, we demystify complex network operations, enabling organizations to deliver applications and innovation at scale. Built by network experts to make critical insight accessible to every engineer, Kentik is the real-time source of truth that understands every network in context — from data center to cloud to the internet. This single platform unifies and correlates cloud, device, flow, and synthetic data to turn telemetry into action. Market leaders like Akamai, Booking.com, Dropbox, and Zoom rely on Kentik to run, manage, and optimize their networks.
What we do
Our platform ingests trillions of records and serves hundreds of thousands of queries for our users each day. You will gain experience building a production quality, high performance server-and-client SaaS application that handles uniquely high volumes of data.
We have built a team of world-class engineers, network experts, and technology thought leaders in a remote-friendly culture from day one. While prior experience in a remote environment is not required, we highly value strong collaboration and communication skills, as well as a high level of independence and autonomy.
What you'll do
Kentik is looking for a Staff level Site Reliability Engineer (Cloud) to join our Product Engineering team to help build and maintain our Synthetics and Cloud product lines. These products have multiple applications deployed in various cloud providers all over the world. We manage these cloud applications using observability tooling, automated build processes, and adherence to configuration as code best practices.
We’re looking for an experienced engineer who will work with engineering teams across the company to help grow our hardware and software infrastructure. We operate a well-organized, well-instrumented platform, and offer enormous opportunities for employee growth.
- Make sure our real-time, scalable, infrastructure is set up for growth and working efficiently. Our infrastructure runs on our own hardware, across multiple locations as well as all major cloud vendors
- Work on tools and processes to better monitor our platform as well as ensuring its stability through our rapid growth
- Deep-diving into diverse topics, from firewalls and IP routing, to database replication strategies or automating build processes
- Collaborate with engineering and infrastructure teams on finding solutions from an operational perspective
- Assist with expanding our cloud deployments across the major cloud providers
- Contribute code, code reviews and tools or patches to all kinds of existing code
- Write design documents or collaborate on colleagues’ docs to introduce new features or changes into our infrastructure
- Provide valuable feedback on team goals, projects, and processes. We believe in continuously improving our team
What you'll bring
Studies have shown that some candidates tend to apply to jobs only if they meet 100% of the qualifications. We encourage you to apply if you meet most of the criteria - even if you don’t match all of the qualifications, your skills and experience could be valuable in this role!
- 8+ years of experience in cloud-based Systems Administration, IT and/or SRE related projects
- Expertise in public cloud environments such as AWS, GCP, Azure, or OCI.
- Strong command of containerization and orchestration using Docker and Kubernetes.
- Solid programming and automation skills using Bash, Python, or Go.
- Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and configuration management platforms such as Terraform, Ansible, and Puppet.
- Proficiency in Linux administration and command-line tools (e.g., SSH, grep, awk).
- Detailed understanding of major internet protocols (TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP, TLS)
- Networking administration experience: concepts such as routing, firewalls (iptables), peering sound familiar
- A passion for documenting code, processes, and infrastructure in runbooks and wikis
- Worked with metrics monitoring solutions such as grafana, prometheus, telegraf, and OpenTelemetry
- Experience creating and managing tickets with third party vendors and owning cloud vendor partner relationships
Nice to haves:
- Familiarity with Kubernetes automation tools, specifically managing complex deployments with Helm and Helmfile.
- Knowledge of scaling Kubernetes workloads and compute infrastructure
- Experience optimizing CI/CD build and deploy pipelines using GitHub Actions and Jenkins.
- Exposure to PagerDuty Integrations
- Knowledge of SRE, DevOps and GitOps practices and principles
Our tech stack
- Our core data engine and platform are primarily written in Go
- We use Node.js + Express for application serving, and React as our primary UI framework
- We also use some JS and Python for tooling/scripting
- In addition to our own database, we use Postgres, Kafka, Mysql, and Redis
- Internal and public APIs expose both rest/json and gRPC endpoints
- Haproxy, Envoy for API traffic routing and balancing
- Github for source control, PRs, issues
- Jenkins for automated builds
What we offer
Kentik is a fully remote company that operates globally. We seek professionals that will help us thrive as an organization, and in turn, to broaden and enhance your career. We’re very thorough in the interview process to understand your skills and how they will relate to your successful growth here at Kentik. Our compensation philosophy encompasses a fair program for all in order to attract, engage and retain talented individuals who will drive our business and wow our customers.
The compensation range for this position is: $165,000 - $200,000. This range reflects the low and high end of the U.S. compensation range Kentik reasonably and generally expects to pay the hired candidate in this role. The actual compensation offered may be lower or higher than the stated range depending on various factors, including but not limited to:
- Experience with the skill sets required for success
- Demonstrated competencies and potential
- A geographic market-based approach
In addition to a great career opportunity, Kentik offers stellar benefits for our employees, which include:
- 100% of premiums are paid by company for health, vision and dental coverage for you and your dependents
- Additionally, an annual Health Reimbursement Account (HRA) of $3,000 for an individual or $4,500 for a family
- Paid family & medical leave
- Open PTO, a quarterly Wellness Day, and a minimum of 10 paid holidays
- 401(k) retirement account
- Home office reimbursement
- Stock options
Note: Benefits are as listed for all US full-time employees. For compensation, international applicants will be treated equitably in relation to the laws applicable within the countries in which we operate.
Come work with us
The true meaning of Kentik is visibility. We’re committed to making sure everyone feels empowered to use their voice, has a sense of belonging, and is represented at Kentik.
We don’t look for individuals who fit the culture, but those who will continue to add to the culture.
We encourage everyone to apply, especially those individuals who are underrepresented in the industry: people of color, LGBTQI+ community, women, individuals with disabilities (both seen and unseen), veterans, and people of any age or family status.
Kentik is committed to creating an inclusive interview process. If you require a reasonable accommodation during the application or interview process, please reach out to recruiting@kentik.com.
Come as you are!
You will be working at a fast-growing, well-funded startup alongside industry thought leaders and network aficionados as we build the future of observability and set the high bar for how network operations and digital businesses should run. With a competitive salary and amazing benefits on top of the meaningful and challenging projects you’ll take on, we’re sure you’ll enjoy joining the Kentik team.
#li-remote
Ready to apply?
Apply to Kentik
Who we are
Kentik is the network intelligence platform for modern infrastructure teams. Unlike traditional monitoring and observability tools, we demystify complex network operations, enabling organizations to deliver applications and innovation at scale. Built by network experts to make critical insight accessible to every engineer, Kentik is the real-time source of truth that understands every network in context — from data center to cloud to the internet. This single platform unifies and correlates cloud, device, flow, and synthetic data to turn telemetry into action. Market leaders like Akamai, Booking.com, Dropbox, and Zoom rely on Kentik to run, manage, and optimize their networks.
What we do
If you're a senior engineer looking to move to a staff+ role, this will be a great opportunity! You will get to work with the rest of engineering, as well as product management and field engineers.
What you'll do
You will work on a very broad and diverse set of problems and technologies critical to the smooth operation of Kentik, the productivity and happiness of other engineers and the growth of our Engineering organization.
- Build self-service, declarative and API-driven infrastructure components in go, nodejs
- Contribute to our internal deployment tooling (mostly python CLI tools) and service orchestration platform based on Envoy, Nomad and other Hashicorp components
- Help formulate and execute our strategy for datastores such as postgres, kafka, redis (reliability, performance, overhead, capacity planning, …)
- Improve the reliability of our services, with code and testing improvements as well as internal advocacy and education
- Mentoring of junior team members
- Create and update technical documentation for infrastructure
- Be on the on-call escalation path for services owned by the team
What you'll bring
Studies have shown that some candidates tend to apply to jobs only if they meet 100% of the qualifications. We encourage you to apply if you meet most of the criteria - even if you don’t match all of the qualifications, your skills and experience could be valuable in this role!
- 8+ years of relevant experience
- Passion for building and providing amazing tools and platforms to other engineers
- Strong coding skills in Go or Python(alternatively: server-side javascript, ruby, java …)
- Significant experience with data ecosystems and tools, cloud or on-prem
- An SRE mindset and and the intent to build reliable, easy to operate systems
Nice to haves:
- Familiarity with Temporal (or similar workflow engines) for managing workflow execution and durable execution experience
- Most our systems run on Linux bare-metal hosts managed with puppet - so any experience with that is a plus
Our tech stack
- Our core data engine and platform are primarily written in Go
- We use Node.js + Express for application serving, and React as our primary UI framework
- We also use some JS and Python for tooling/scripting
- In addition to our own database, we use Postgres, Kafka, Mysql, and Redis
- Internal and public APIs expose both rest/json and gRPC endpoints
- Haproxy, Envoy for API traffic routing and balancing
- Github for source control, PRs, issues
- Jenkins for automated builds
What we offer
Kentik is a fully remote company that operates globally. We seek professionals that will help us thrive as an organization, and in turn, to broaden and enhance your career. We’re very thorough in the interview process to understand your skills and how they will relate to your successful growth here at Kentik. Our compensation philosophy encompasses a fair program for all in order to attract, engage and retain talented individuals who will drive our business and wow our customers.
The compensation range for this position is: $165,000 - $200,000. This range reflects the low and high end of the U.S. compensation range Kentik reasonably and generally expects to pay the hired candidate in this role. The actual compensation offered may be lower or higher than the stated range depending on various factors, including but not limited to:
- Experience with the skill sets required for success
- Demonstrated competencies and potential
- A geographic market-based approach
In addition to a great career opportunity, Kentik offers stellar benefits for our employees, which include:
- 100% of premiums are paid by company for health, vision and dental coverage for you and your dependents
- Additionally, an annual Health Reimbursement Account (HRA) of $3,000 for an individual or $4,500 for a family
- Paid family & medical leave
- Open PTO, a quarterly Wellness Day, and a minimum of 10 paid holidays
- 401(k) retirement account
- Home office reimbursement
- Stock options
Note: Benefits are as listed for all US full-time employees. For compensation, international applicants will be treated equitably in relation to the laws applicable within the countries in which we operate.
Come work with us
The true meaning of Kentik is visibility. We’re committed to making sure everyone feels empowered to use their voice, has a sense of belonging, and is represented at Kentik.
We don’t look for individuals who fit the culture, but those who will continue to add to the culture.
We encourage everyone to apply, especially those individuals who are underrepresented in the industry: people of color, LGBTQI+ community, women, individuals with disabilities (both seen and unseen), veterans, and people of any age or family status.
Kentik is committed to creating an inclusive interview process. If you require a reasonable accommodation during the application or interview process, please reach out to recruiting@kentik.com.
Come as you are!
You will be working at a fast-growing, well-funded startup alongside industry thought leaders and network aficionados as we build the future of observability and set the high bar for how network operations and digital businesses should run. With a competitive salary and amazing benefits on top of the meaningful and challenging projects you’ll take on, we’re sure you’ll enjoy joining the Kentik team.
#li-remote
Ready to apply?
Apply to Kentik