Disrupting the Trillion-Dollar Fashion Industry
Rent the Runway is a pioneering fashion company founded in 2009. Our mission has remained unchanged since inception: empowering women to feel their best every day through innovative technology and shared designer closets.
The Closet in the Cloud, our flagship platform, revolutionises the way women get dressed. By offering millions of items from hundreds of designer brands, we provide an unparalleled assortment of attire for every occasion, from evening wear and accessories to ready-to-wear, workwear, denim, casual, maternity, outerwear, blouses, knitwear, loungewear, jewelry, handbags, activewear, ski wear, home goods, and kidswear.
European Technology Hub in Galway
In April 2019, Rent the Runway established its European Technology Hub in Galway, Ireland. Located in the historic Claddagh area, our growing team in Galway tackles core technology challenges and shapes the next generation of services critical to our success and continued growth.
About the Team:
Our Platform Engineering team is comprised of smart, pragmatic, and entrepreneurial individuals who are reliability-focused and passionate about making the closet-in-the-cloud a reality for our customers. We drive operational capability by creating and advocating best practices to support distributed, fault-tolerant systems in the cloud that serve our customers every day.
About the Job:
As a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), you will have the opportunity to contribute to technology initiatives in cloud infrastructure, software delivery, and observability. You will be responsible for building and developing tooling, policies, and processes to advance Rent the Runway to higher levels of scale and performance. You will lead assigned projects and be responsible for the overall delivery of these initiatives. You will be part of a high-impact engagement with the Platform Engineering team delivering operational excellence through system automation, self-service, and developer tooling that empowers the entire organisation to deliver exceptional results for our customers.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Utilise technologies and languages like Terraform, Helm, Python, Go, Container Orchestration services including Docker and Kubernetes, and a variety of GCP and services to drive service reliability.
2. Implement software development practices to build observability, alerting, tracing, automation, and self-healing capabilities to maintain the highest levels of platform availability.
3. End-to-end coordination across platforms, while supporting, identifying, responding, and reporting of issues; then escalating to respective teams for remediation promptly.
4. Develop maintenance and operations automation through CI/CD
About You:
1. Passion for CI/CD: Demonstrated enthusiasm for developing and improving Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment processes.
2. Orchestration Technology: 2 years of hands-on experience with orchestration tools such as Kubernetes and/or Helm.
3. Coding and Scripting: Proficiency in Terraform, Ansible or Helm, with an understanding of CI/CD tools like GitHub, GitLab, and Artifactory.
4. Monitoring Solutions Expertise: Practical experience with monitoring, alerting, and logging tools, including Splunk and GCP Monitoring.
5. Production Environment Support: 2 years of experience in maintaining production environments across cloud platforms like GCP, AWS, or Azure.
6. Software Development: Some experience in developing and delivering products using programming languages such as Bash, Python, Golang, or Java is desirable.
7. System Optimization: Track record of contributions to enhance existing systems, building robust infrastructure, and automating processes to reduce workload.
8. Agile Methodology: Experience working within Agile teams, adhering to sprint cadences and delivery timelines.
9. Problem-Solving Skills: Ability to effectively triage issues and conduct root-cause analyses when necessary.
10. Team Collaboration: Strong team player with the ability to work collaboratively within diverse groups.
11. On-Call Duties: Willingness to participate in an on-call rotation, troubleshoot production issues, perform Root Cause Analyses, and share insights with the Engineering and Operations teams.
What We Offer:
We're committed to the happiness and wellbeing of our employees, aiming to create a workplace that fosters both personal and professional growth. Our inclusive benefits include:
1. Generous Paid Time Off including annual leave, paid bereavement, and family sick leave - every employee needs time to take care of themselves and their family.
2. Universal Paid Parental Leave for both parents + flexible return to work program - because we know your newest family member(s) deserve your undivided attention.
3. Paid Sabbatical after 5 years of continuous service - unplug, recharge, and have some fun.
4. Competitive Stakeholder Pension - taking care of your future.
5. Comprehensive health, dental care and dependents care from day 1 of employment - Your health comes first and we've got you covered.
6. Company-wide events and outings - our team spirit is no joke - we know how to have fun
7. Hybrid Work - This is a hybrid role based in our Galway, Ireland office. Employees have the option to work remotely 2-3 days per week.
Rent the Runway is an equal opportunity employer. In accordance with applicable law, we prohibit discrimination against any applicant or employee on any legally-recognised basis, including, but not limited to: gender, marital status, family status, age disability, sexual orientation, race, religion, and membership of the Traveller community.
This role requires an in-office presence in our Galway office, a minimum of 2 days a week.