Senior Site Reliability Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United Kingdom, +3 more countries.

📋 Description

• Enhance production reliability and strengthen system resilience within a team focused on Site Reliability Engineering (SRE).

• Advocate for high-quality work and adherence to industry best practices.

• Engage in communication with teams and stakeholders throughout all phases.

• Introduce innovative ideas and motivate others.

• Tackle intricate technical challenges.

• Operate across various technologies in a rapidly evolving sector.

• Take part in on-call rotations, incident responses, and conduct blameless post-incident evaluations.

• Develop code, manage alerts, refine solutions, and provide support to colleagues.

• Collaborate with stakeholders on requirements analysis and presentations.

• Ensure systems are secure, maintainable, and consistently available.

• Continuously enhance skills through peer reviews and research endeavors.

• Contribute to customer success and align with company objectives.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of experience in administering Linux systems and related infrastructure in production settings.

• A collaborative mindset as an SRE, familiar with SLIs/SLOs/SLAs, error budgets, blast radius, and conducting blameless postmortems.

• A commitment to automation, minimizing toil, and preventing the recurrence of issues.

• Proven record of creating runbooks that are beneficial for the entire team, not just for individual use.

• Strong foundational knowledge in Kubernetes and its ecosystem.

• Experience with cloud infrastructure, with a preference for AWS; bare-metal knowledge is a plus.

• Proficiency in tool development, particularly with Bash and either Python or Go, or similar languages.

• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools, with a preference for Terraform.

• Experience with CI/CD processes and version control, preferably GitHub.

• Database expertise in one of Postgres, Cassandra, or ClickHouse is preferred.

• Experience managing a production observability stack (metrics, logs, traces), prioritizing meaningful signals over noise.

• Comfortable working with live production infrastructure, possessing strong troubleshooting skills and ownership during incident responses.

• A history of ongoing professional development.

• A self-motivated approach that suits an asynchronous, globally distributed team, with the ability to take on related tasks as needed.

🏝️ Benefits

• Flexible working environment – embracing a remote-first culture with coworking options available.

• Generous leave plans – including 4 weeks of paid annual leave, parental leave, birthday leave, and a program for purchasing additional annual leave.

• Health and wellness support – via a wellness allowance and employee wellbeing initiatives.

• Comprehensive learning support – inclusive of a generous study and training allowance alongside 5 days of paid study leave.

• Creative, modern workspaces – designed to inspire when you are not working remotely.

• Motivated, inclusive team – collaborate with industry experts and emerging talent.

• Recognition programs – celebrate achievements with our *Legend* and *Kudos* awards.