GoDaddy

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

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6 days ago
Remote, IndiaSenior

Responsibilities

  • Own Kubernetes-aware Linux patching, including cordon, drain, uncordon, etcd quorum gating, cluster locks, and deadlock prevention.
  • Own cluster onboarding, reduce onboarding lead time, identify friction, and create repeatable runbooks.
  • Own Vault integration, including AppRole credentials, PKI certificates, AWX credential types, and IAM key rotation.
  • Build Grafana dashboards and actionable alerting for patching failures.
  • Contribute to AI-driven vulnerability remediation and automation that reduces operational toil.
  • Mentor junior contributors, participate in code reviews and architectural decisions, and work alongside Staff leads.
  • Participate in on-call rotation and independently lead incident response, communication, timelines, and blameless postmortems.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of hands-on Site Reliability Engineering or infrastructure engineering experience in production environments.
  • Strong Ansible skills, including idempotent roles and playbooks, variable precedence, handlers, and Molecule-style testing.
  • Linux systems administration experience with yum/dnf, systemd, kernel patching, and package-conflict diagnosis.
  • Operational Kubernetes expertise including pod scheduling, node lifecycle, and etcd quorum awareness.
  • Terraform and infrastructure-as-code experience writing and modifying modules configured through variable files.
  • Python scripting experience sufficient to maintain utility scripts and the machine-learning-based vulnerability pipeline.
  • Experience with GitHub Actions, CI pipelines, ansible-lint, Semgrep gates, and conventional commit standards.
  • Prior on-call and incident-response experience with the ability to own incidents independently.
  • SLI/SLO literacy and ability to help define and instrument service-level objectives.
  • Preferred experience with HashiCorp Vault, AWX or Automation Controller, ServiceNow, Grafana, Loki, Prometheus, MySQL replication, HAProxy, OpenStack, private cloud or bare-metal infrastructure, and process lead-time reduction.
  • Ability to participate in AI-assisted development, with AI tools used daily by the team.

Benefits

  • Remote position based in India, with occasional visits to a GoDaddy office for team events or meetings.
  • Benefits may include paid time off, retirement savings such as a 401k or pension scheme, bonus or incentive eligibility, equity grants, employee stock purchase plan participation, health benefits, and parental leave.
  • Benefits vary by role and location and are reviewed during the interview process.

Tech Stack

AnsibleGitHub ActionsGrafanaKubernetesLinuxMySQLOpenStackPrometheusPythonTerraformVault

Categories

DevOpsSite Reliability
GoDaddy

About GoDaddy

5,001-10,000 employees

GoDaddy provides domain registration, DNS, web hosting, website and commerce tools, security, email, and payments for small businesses and web professionals. It sells these as subscriptions and add-on services, including a website builder, marketing tools, and a domain aftermarket. Founded in 1997 and headquartered in Tempe, Arizona, the NYSE-listed company serves over 20 million customers and manages tens of millions of domains globally.

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