Senior Site Reliability Engineer

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

📋 Description

• Assist Honeycomb in scaling our backend systems to accommodate our highest-volume clients.

• Foster organizational trust through open communication, providing and receiving direct and constructive feedback.

• Collaborate with other backend teams to thoroughly examine our stack, ensuring optimal utilization of our infrastructure.

• Undergo training to become an Incident Commander, and subsequently train others in this role.

• Support SRE and Honeycomb in cultivating a robust cross-Atlantic engineering culture.

• Engage in the team’s on-call rotation as part of the EU side of a new follow-the-sun schedule.

• Assist the organization in navigating trade-offs between reliability and its other objectives and priorities.

• Optional: Serve as an external ambassador through blog posts, conference presentations, and talks, with backing from our DevRel team.

⛳️ Requirements

• Extensive experience with AWS and Kubernetes.

• Proven track record in cost analysis and reduction.

• Strong skills in Helm, Terraform, and CI/CD methodologies.

• Project management expertise.

• Background in software engineering (experience with Golang is advantageous, as is performance engineering).

• Familiarity with Kafka or similar high-volume distributed systems.

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to adapt your communication style for different audiences and provide direct feedback when needed.

• A desire to understand how people and systems operate, along with a readiness to involve them in your initiatives.

• Understanding of observability concepts (SLOs, instrumentation) and data-driven decision-making.

• Ability to thrive in ambiguous situations, with a proactive approach to action and experimentation.

• Interest in both the technical and interpersonal aspects of reliability engineering.

• Experience collaborating in geographically distributed teams.

🏝️ Benefits

• A stake in our success - generous equity through an employee-friendly stock program.

• Our pay structure is based on transparent levels relative to experience, rather than negotiation skills.

• Recharge with unlimited PTO.

• A truly distributed-first mindset and culture.

• Stipend for home office setup, co-working, and internet expenses.

• Comprehensive benefits coverage for employees, with options available for dependents.

• Up to 16 weeks of paid parental leave, no matter the path to parenthood.

• Annual development allowance.