Site Reliability Engineer – EMEA

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

📋 Description

• Actively participate as a co-owner of production services, ensuring they are built, maintained, and operated in a reliable and scalable manner.

• Contribute to the delivery of new features and services, as well as the everyday operations of existing services.

• Collaborate with Software Engineering to identify and implement operational enhancements through metric-driven collection and analysis.

• Develop and uphold application performance benchmarks.

• Enhance operational efficiencies by releasing code and monitoring performance metrics.

• Provide Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and operational support, which includes tooling, automation, monitoring, workflow management, and improvements to CI/CD processes.

• Participate in the weekly on-call rotation to investigate and resolve system-related issues.

• Manage and scale infrastructure systems effectively.

• Create and maintain performance benchmarks to ensure optimal application performance.

• Improve CI/CD pipelines to minimize the time from development to production deployment.

• Enhance and scale AWS and application infrastructure.

• Optimize local development workflows in collaboration with software development teams.

• Identify recurring issues and devise solutions to mitigate or eliminate their impact.

• Assist in the implementation of scalable blue/green and canary deployment strategies.

⛳️ Requirements

• Extensive experience in deploying, managing, and troubleshooting infrastructure within AWS.

• Proven experience managing the full lifecycle of production container deployment using self-managed Kubernetes, ECS, or EKS.

• Ability to create custom tools when suitable options are not available, and instruct others on their use.

• Understanding of CI/CD practices with experience in building custom tooling for code deployment to production environments.

• Capability to troubleshoot distributed Linux systems and trace requests across applications, systems, and networks.

• Proficiency in automating routine tasks effectively.

• Strong command of at least two programming languages.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills for conveying complex concepts to diverse audiences.

• Ability to collaborate effectively while also possessing the capability to solve problems independently.

• Must reside in the EMEA region and be available during standard EMEA working hours.

🏝️ Benefits

• Opportunity to earn equity.

• Maternity and paternity leave benefits.

• Membership access to WeWork.

• Annual work-from-home stipend.

• Learning and development stipend available after six months of employment.