Site Reliability Engineer (Remote)

Site Reliability Engineer

Overview:

As a Site Reliability Engineer at Weedmaps you will work cross-departmentally with your partners on the application, infrastructure and quality teams to enhance the performance, reliability, resilience and scalability of the web services that make up Weedmaps.com. We are a cloud native organization with 100% of our services in Docker running on Kubernetes in AWS’ public cloud. We also leverage observability, monitoring, CI/CD automation and custom tooling to push multiple production releases a day.

Your day to day focus will be leveraging your engineering skills to assist in the building out, monitoring, reducing developer toil, configuring CI workflows and improving our deployment pipelines. You will also be a knowledge reference for our development teams to ensure they are leveraging consistent tooling for metrics, logging, build, and deployment. You will work closely with the development and infrastructure teams to identify the essential service-specific metrics (beyond the golden metrics) that need to be monitored and work with application development teams to create libraries to allow services to easily instrument their services.

The impact you'll make:

• Collaborate with stakeholders to drive best practices for monitoring, CI/CD pipelines

• Troubleshoot deployment issues in our CI pipeline

• Advocate emphatically for the DevOPS culture here at Weedmaps

• Identify areas for automation and embrace the codification of all things

• Evangelize best practices around collaboration, reliability, security and performance to all partner teams

• Take ownership of the application configuration/scaling for given services to ensure that they are following the established practices of the organization

• Create and refine synthetic monitoring flows

What you've accomplished:

• Minimum 2 years of development experience at startup/mid-sized companies

• Proficiency in Python, Go, Node, Ruby or Elixir

• Knowledge of containerization, particularly Docker (Kubernetes is a plus)

• Effective communication skills, a positive attitude, and ability to give and receive constructive feedback

• Professional experience with cloud native observability standard such as Open metrics, Open tracing and Open Census

• Expertise using/configuring modern CI/CD workflows

• Intimate understanding of SLIs, SLOs and SLAs from the service level to the business level

• Intimate understanding of the golden metrics, how to monitor and alert on them

• Deep understanding of the GitHub branching strategy

• Experience troubleshooting containerized applications

• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code, automation and configuration

Bonus points:

• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure concepts (AWS, GCS)

• Experience with Hashicorp tools such as Terraform, Consul, Vault

• Computer science or other engineering background

• Experience with CI tools such as CircleCi, Jenkins, Travis, Drone, Semaphore, etc.

• Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as with tools like Prometheus, CloudWatch, DataDog, and Grafana

The base pay range for this position is $125,965 - $139,200 per year

2026 US Benefits for Full Time, Regular Employees:

• Physical Health (Medical, Dental & Vision)

• 100% employer-paid premium for employees

• Up to 80% coverage for dependents

• Company HSA contribution with the High Deductible Health Plan

• 401(k) Retirement Plan (employer will match contribution up to 3.5% of employee contribution)

• Basic Life, Voluntary Life and AD&D Insurance options

• Supplemental, voluntary benefits

• Student Loan Repayment/529 Education Savings with a monthly company contribution

• FSA (Medical, Dependent, Transit and Parking)

• Voluntary Life and AD&D Insurance

• Critical Illness Insurance

• Accident Insurance

• Short- and Long-term Disability Insurance

• Pet Insurance

• Identity theft protection

• Legal access to a network of attorneys

• PTO, paid sick leave, and company holidays (including a 2026 holiday shutdown)

• Paid parental leave

Why Work at Weedmaps?

Life at Weedmaps means innovation and heart. Come join us if you care about the plant, the people who love it, and are ready to let your talent shine. We foster a bustling and collaborative culture that revolves around an environment that focuses on the benefits of weed, and the community that supports it.

You too can have a hand in shaping the industry’s future; ready to roll with us?

See how we’ve grown—our journey, leadership team, and what’s next at Weedmaps.com/corporate

About Weedmaps:

Founded in 2008, we’ve grown from a small startup to a global leader in the cannabis industry. Our dedication to transparency, education, and community has set us apart, and today, we proudly serve cannabis to consumers and businesses in the U.S. and worldwide.

“Freedom to choose. Freedom to access. Freedom to enjoy.”

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