onX develops digital outdoor navigation and mapping software used by millions of hunters, off-roaders, hikers, anglers and other outdoor enthusiasts.
<div class="content-intro"><h3>ABOUT onX</h3> <p>We’re a team of builders, adventurers, and risk takers using technology to help people confidently explore the outdoors. Driven by our mission to awaken the adventurer inside everyone, we build products that optimize every outdoor experience and inspire confidence to get out and go further.</p> <p>We’re a high-growth tech company. The pace is fast, the work takes grit, and ambiguity is part of the job. As the world changes around us, we adapt - continuously evolving how we build, prioritize, and deliver.</p> <p>Our business moves quickly, and there’s real opportunity to shape what we build next. Each of our verticals - Hunt, Offroad, Backcountry, and Fish - is at a different stage of maturity, which means the challenges you encounter and the impact you have will vary depending on where you sit and what the business needs most.</p> <p>We operate with an experimentation mindset, continually iterating and improving how we solve problems. We expect our people to use the latest tooling, including AI, thoughtfully and responsibly, pairing human judgment with technology to increase quality, speed, and impact.</p> <p>Our impact comes to life through the products we build, in the stories of our customers, and in our growing commitment to land stewardship and recreational access.</p></div><h3><strong>WHAT YOU WILL DO</strong></h3> <p>onX is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to build and maintain the infrastructure that enables our developers to ship reliably at scale. You'll manage onX's infrastructure platform, deployment automation, and observability through infrastructure-as-code—keeping systems reliable and performant while maintaining a simple path to production for development teams. This is a great opportunity to work on infrastructure that directly impacts millions of outdoor enthusiasts. This position will report to the Principal Site Reliability Engineer.</p> <h3><strong>As an onX Site Reliability Engineer, your day to day responsibilities would look like:</strong></h3> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">(Essential Job Duties)</span></p> <ul> <li>Deploy, monitor and maintain highly available systems using technologies such as Terraform, CockroachDB and GCP services to include GKE(Kubernetes), Cloud SQL, Bigtable, Google Composer (Airflow), Google Cloud Storage, BigQuery, Pub/Sub, Cloud Run, etc.</li> <li>Maintain and extend a large, mature Terraform codebase.</li> <li>Analyze systems and make recommendations to increase performance, availability and minimize cost.</li> <li>Automate manual systems to minimize toil wherever possible.</li> <li>Develop and maintain integrations with 3rd party monitoring and alerting systems, such as Google Cloud Monitoring, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Checkly, and Rootly.</li> <li>Drive incident response best practices for on-call engineering teams across onX. Participate in the SRE team's on-call rotation for core infrastructure.</li> <li>Collaborate in architectural decisions and direction involving our services and initiatives.</li> </ul> <h3><strong>LOCATION</strong></h3> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">onX has created a thriving distributed workforce community across several US locations. This position can be performed from an onX corporate office, “Basecamp,” or “Connection Hub”. <br></span></p> <ul> <li><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>Corporate Offices</strong>: onX was founded in Montana with offices in Missoula and Bozeman. If you prefer to work in an office at least part of the time this is a great option.</span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>Basecamps</strong>: onX’s Basecamps are established virtual workforce communities where a sizable number of distributed team members group for work, volunteering, socializing, and adventure. </span> <ul> <li><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Our current Basecamps are located within a 90-mile radius of the following: Austin, TX; Charlotte, NC; Denver, CO; Kalispell, MT; Minneapolis, MN; Portland, OR; Salt Lake City, UT; and Seattle, WA. </span></li> </ul> </li> <li><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>Connection Hubs</strong>: onX’s Connection Hub locations are smaller, emerging communities of distributed team members. </span> <ul> <li><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Our current Connection Hubs are located within a 60-mile radius of the following: Boise, ID; Charleston, SC; Dallas/Fort Worth, TX; Phoenix, AZ; Richmond, VA; Spokane, WA; and Vermont.</span></li> </ul> </li> </ul> <h3><strong>WHAT YOU’LL BRING</strong></h3> <ul> <li>You have a B.S. or M.S. in computer science or a related field or relevant experience</li> <li>You have at least 5+ years of experience where 3+ are supporting production systems</li> <li>You have a strong interest and experience with Kubernetes, networking, and infrastructure-as-code.</li> <li>You have experience with Terraform/OpenTofu</li> <li>You have exposure to at least one major cloud platform</li> <li>You evaluate technologies and solutions based on merit, stability, performance and the ability to debug</li> <li>You have practical experience with different types of datastores (SQL, NoSQL, object storage) and can explain when to use each based on data access patterns and scalability needs</li> <li>You have a strong computer science foundation</li> <li>You believe that your profession is a craft and you’re driven to improve every day</li> <li>You take strong ownership of your work and platform responsibilities</li> </ul> <h3><strong>BONUS QUALIFICATIONS</strong></h3> <ul> <li>Familiarity with Google Cloud Platform</li> <li>Strong ability to troubleshoot and break down issues</li> <li>Experience working with high throughput, low latency services</li> <li>Experience working with a distributed team</li> <li>Experience working with IAM, auditing & security management within a cloud environment</li> <li>Experience working with GIS Mapping systems and tiles</li> <li>Experience working with C