Senior Production Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Australia.

📋 Description

• Lead a team of engineers with a focus on Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles.

• Design, develop, and sustain complex systems on a large scale.

• Foster an engineering culture that prioritizes delivery while upholding high standards for stability, performance, security, and scalability.

• Oversee monitoring, alerting, investigation, and resolution of production infrastructure issues across public cloud platforms, including GCP and AWS.

• Discover opportunities and implement automated, scalable solutions to enhance code and operational tasks, minimizing toil.

• Act as a technical liaison during critical incidents.

• Promote cross-functional communication, monitor alert trends, and conduct root cause analysis (RCA) to facilitate structural enhancements.

• Implement production changes and security requests, which encompass code deployments and patching pipelines.

• Collaborate with Product Management and Engineering Management to ensure technical solutions and execution strategies are aligned with business objectives and roadmap priorities.

• Mentor, coach, and develop engineers throughout the organization.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 5 years of experience in software engineering, DevOps, or Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) focusing on building and managing production-ready configurations at internet scale.

• A solid background in system architecture, distributed microservices, and self-healing systems with effective resource and network utilization.

• Advanced knowledge of executing containerized workloads using Kubernetes orchestration and Docker in public cloud hosting environments.

• Proficient in structural and automated scripting utilizing object-oriented programming languages.

• Strong experience in Python and Go is preferred.

• Comprehensive understanding of the modern web serving stack and infrastructure automation tools, including Linux, Nginx/Apache, MySQL, PHP, Ansible, and Terraform.

• Hands-on experience with implementing metrics, monitoring, and alerting systems such as Prometheus or EFK stacks.

• Excellent analytical, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis skills.

• Capability to thrive in a team-oriented environment.

🏝️ Benefits

• Company Stock Options (Every employee is an owner in the company).

• Superannuation Program.

• Employee Assistance Program.

• Supplemental Maternity & Paternity Pay.

• Generous Vacation Time (Who doesn't like time off).

• One-time $745 AUS Home Office Stipend.

• Company Wellness Days.