Site Reliability Engineer

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

📋 Description

• Collaborate with a team of DevOps and DBA specialists.

• Enhance existing infrastructure and processes across deployed regions while streamlining deployments for new locations.

• Continuously advance the stability and efficiency of the Kubernetes platform by optimizing resource utilization, reducing costs, and streamlining environment provisioning via GitOps-first methodologies.

• Oversee and maintain cloud infrastructure through autoscaling, alerting pipelines, and Grafana dashboards, which encompass metrics, logs, traces, and real user monitoring.

• Manage weekday on-call operations, triage and respond to production incidents, conduct root cause analyses, and lead post-incident reviews.

• Develop and manage alert pipelines to ensure the quality of actionable signals and prevent alert fatigue, cascading alerts, and notification overload.

• Define and uphold SLIs and SLOs for critical services, utilizing them to drive reliability enhancements and on-call prioritization.

• Take responsibility for cloud operation activities.

• Coordinate with external security organizations for annual audits and conduct internal security assessments.

• Assist in reconfiguring existing architecture to facilitate rapid deployments in new countries.

• Mentor junior team members.

⛳️ Requirements

• Minimum of 3 years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering.

• Candidates must be located in Europe.

• Proven experience in independently leading project planning and deployment.

• Familiarity with cloud platforms, particularly AWS, with a solid understanding of leveraging cloud resources to meet demands from other teams and production environments.

• Strong knowledge of Kubernetes and container orchestration.

• Experience with EKS and GitOps tools such as ArgoCD and Helm is highly desirable.

• Proficient in Infrastructure-as-Code, especially Terraform.

• Skilled in scripting and automation using Bash, Python, or Golang.

• Experience with Rust is a plus.

• Hands-on experience with observability stacks that include metrics, logs, distributed traces, and profiling tools like Prometheus, Loki, Tempo, Pyroscope, and OpenTelemetry.

• Familiarity with real user monitoring (RUM).

• Knowledge of Grafana Faro or OpenTelemetry SDK instrumentation is advantageous.

• Proven experience in on-call and incident response, including the ability to triage production issues under pressure, lead post-mortem sessions, and drive follow-up actions.

• Capability to design and maintain alert frameworks that minimize noise, mitigate alert fatigue, and prevent cascading alert patterns.

• Experience defining SLIs and SLOs and utilizing them to inform reliability initiatives.

• Familiarity with service mesh concepts is a plus.

• Strong networking knowledge, particularly of the TCP/IP stack and HTTP protocol.

• Experience managing high volumes of HTTP requests and designing systems for high availability and traffic management.

• Solid understanding of caching mechanisms, including CDN, HTTP cache, Redis, and Memcached.

• Outstanding troubleshooting abilities, including diagnosing Linux OS issues and optimizing OS parameters.

• JVM optimization experience is highly beneficial.

🏝️ Benefits

• Sporty operates as a remote-first company committed to sustainability.

• Competitive salary.

• Individual performance-based bonuses awarded quarterly.

• 28 days of paid annual leave.

• Core working hours are from 10 am to 3 pm in your local time zone, with flexibility outside these hours.

• Referral bonuses available.

• Flash bonuses offered.

• Access to top-tier equipment.

• Annual company retreats, providing excellent internal networking opportunities.