Overview

Apartment Therapy’s mission is to help make people’s homes more beautiful, organized and healthy. As a Site Reliability Engineer you will be building, and maintaining the tools and systems that furthers that mission, and helps provide a rich, engaging media experience to 35+ million monthly readers and growing.

Our ideal candidate is someone who is passionate about building the tools and systems to improve our platform. You have a keen focus on streamlining processes and tools to reduce development and deployment friction. You have built, managed and maintained high traffic, high availability applications, and you are comfortable deploying to AWS, Google’s Cloud Platform or physical hardware.

You’ve managed software and systems in a production environment, and have a deep understanding of how applications scale in the wild. You build redundant, understandable and easily reproducible systems. You are an amazing communicator who is comfortable working locally or in a remote environment.

We are headquartered in New York City, and our team is a mix of remote and local people. We wear many hats and maintain a collaborative and encouraging environment. We are small, lean team that deploys early and often.

Leadership is practiced at all levels of the company, and we look to our Senior members to help drive decisions while keeping a holistic view of our projects and processes in mind. We value mentoring, learning and technical and professional growth.

This position is a local or remote position, and you will be working with a distributed team. Excellent communication skills and self-direction are critical for success.

Accountabilities:

  • Help design, build and maintain production tools, platforms and infrastructure.
  • Help design, build and maintain development tools and environments.
  • Successful and on-time delivery of scalable resilient systems.
  • 24×7 on-call rotation

Experience/Skills:

  • AWS / GCP
  • Linux
  • Git
  • MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, BigQuery, ElasticSearch
  • Kafka, RabbitMQ a plus
  • Ansible, Terraform, Chef
  • Vagrant
  • Docker Swarm, Consul, Kubernetes
  • Continuous Integration
  • Monitoring / Instrumentation

Education:

  • BS in Computer Science equivalent or equivalent work experience.

About Apartment Therapy

Our Mission: Helping people make their homes more beautiful, organized and healthy by connecting them to a wealth of resources, ideas and community online.

Ten years ago, Maxwell Ryan was known as the "apartment therapist," traveling by scooter to his clients' homes to help them make their spaces beautiful, organized and healthy. Part interior designer, part life coach, his touchpoints were simplicity, comfort, and lack of clutter.

Unlike typical designers, Maxwell didn't want to dictate where things should go or how people should live, he wanted to arm them with the tools and the confidence to decide for themselves. Shortly after launching in 2001, he started a weekly email where he would send tips and recommendations to an increasing distribution list, combining education with decoration.

In April 2004, Maxwell, with his brother Oliver Ryan, launched Apartment Therapy, turning the weekly email into a daily blog post, reviewing stores, offering tips, posting photos of Maxwell's design projects and answering readers' questions.

As the readership grew, so did Apartment Therapy. Between 2004 and 2008, the site launched sister sites devoted to cooking, family, technology and green decorating. Maxwell hired full-time staff, and an expanding pool of contributors.

In early 2012, Apartment Therapy relaunched in order to better serve its readers. Because family, technology and green living are integral parts of modern life, these separate sites are now absorbed into a more comprehensive site that focuses on the two centers of life at home, living and food. Streamlined and easier to navigate, Apartment Therapy continues to offer its readers different ways to build their own "good life," based not just on style but on lifestyle.