Every developer has a tab open on Stack Overflow.
We are one of the most popular websites in the world - a community-based space focused on increasing productivity, decreasing cycle times, accelerating time to market, and protecting institutional knowledge.
Innovation is at the heart of everything we do. We embrace collaboration, transparency, and believe in leading with empathy; creating an environment where every Stacker knows they belong. We embrace that the unique contributions and points of view of all Stackers contribute to our success.
We are a Best Company to Work For, in addition to being recognized for Best Company Leadership, Best Company Happiness, Best Company Perks and Benefits, Best Company Work-Life Balance, Best Company Compensation, and Best Company Outlook.
We are a remote-first company with Hiring HUBs based in the US, Canada, UK, and Germany.
At Stack Overflow, our mission is to serve developers. We build products that make millions of developers’ lives better every day. Our goal is to create a community and a company where every developer feels welcome to learn, share their knowledge, and build their careers.
Stack Overflow is growing fast and our infrastructure needs keep getting bigger as our products
scale and grow. With the increase in infrastructure needs, we are committed to ensuring the highest level of security and performance for our web properties. We are looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to join our existing team of SREs and developers to help us protect our platforms from malicious attacks, bot activities, and unauthorized data scraping. As an SRE, you will collaborate with application development teams to identify gaps and opportunities to improve security and reliability across our products, always looking for ways to automate manual work, and create repeatable, scalable systems and processes.
We’re looking for someone with a specialized skill set in web site anti-abuse such as DDoS protection and advanced bot mitigation strategies using CDN technologies like Cloudflare. We expect this person to have familiarity with Google and/ or Azure cloud platforms, and familiarity with the .NET ecosystem. We don’t expect you to know every other part of our stack coming in, so we’ll pair you with other members of the team to learn and develop your skills across our entire infrastructure (including our non-cloud stackoverflow.com infrastructure). We operate in mixed Windows and Linux environments, and expect someone in this role to have experience with one environment and a working understanding of the other.
What you’ll work on:
Our current ecosystem includes:
We’re looking for:
We like to see:
Salary range: $146K - $220K
What you’ll get in return:
Stack Overflow is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We value diversity, inclusion, equity and belonging and these pillars are at the heart of how we work together here at Stack. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or any other applicable legally protected characteristics in the location in which the candidate is applying.
For individuals based in California, and other locations where required, we will consider employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
