Site Reliability Engineer

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

📋 Description

• Design and sustain tools aimed at enhancing engineering productivity, including but not limited to the automation of deployment infrastructure and database upgrades.

• Identify processes that can benefit from automation, prioritizing internal Developer Experience.

• Collaborate with engineers to facilitate more efficient workflows.

• Develop, maintain, and test our system's disaster recovery procedures, incorporating tools to automate these processes.

• Manage production incidents, create blameless postmortems, and enhance operational playbooks and runbooks.

• Conduct performance investigations and lead optimization efforts across applications, data stores, and AWS.

• Oversee cost optimization initiatives, including right-sizing, autoscaling policies, workload scheduling, storage tiering, and identifying inefficiencies in ECS/Fargate, RDS/Aurora, SQS, and observability.

• Champion the GitOps methodology.

⛳️ Requirements

• A background in software development, with hands-on experience in delivering and managing production services.

• Proficiency in navigating the AWS ecosystem.

• An interest in AI and its transformative impact on software development.

• A collaborative spirit, with a focus on security and attention to detail.

• Familiarity with platform and operations concepts, including networking and Linux administration.

• Experience with microservices and distributed systems at scale.

• Proficient with monitoring tools; our stack includes Opentelemetry, Honeycomb, Grafana, Pingdom, and Incident.io.

🏝️ Benefits

• Unlimited vacation days.

• Four months of paid family leave, regardless of gender.

• Annual learning budget.

• Ongoing internal and external training opportunities.

• Options for remote work.