The Site Reliability Engineer will lead technical initiatives, architect solutions, troubleshoot issues, mentor team members, and improve observability practices.
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RoleWe are seeking a highly experienced Site Reliability Engineer located in Europe, with a strong track record of tackling complex reliability and scalability challenges, and a history of providing technical guidance to teams. If you're a seasoned problem-solver with a passion for automation and operational excellence, and enjoy elevating the skills of those around you, we want to hear from you.
While we’re not actively hiring for this role at the moment, we’re always interested in connecting with great people and building our talent pool for future opportunities.What You'll Do:- Lead Technical Initiatives: Drive key technical initiatives focused on improving the reliability, performance, and scalability of our critical systems, often leading technical aspects within projects.
- Architect and Implement Advanced Solutions: Design and implement sophisticated resilient and scalable solutions, leveraging your deep understanding of distributed systems.
- Master Troubleshooting and Optimization: Lead complex troubleshooting efforts, identify deep-seated root causes, and implement advanced optimizations.
- Build and Evangelize Automation: Develop and champion the adoption of robust automation frameworks and tools, potentially guiding more junior engineers in their development.
- Elevate Observability Practices: Design and implement comprehensive and insightful monitoring and logging solutions, ensuring actionable insights are available across teams.
- Provide Leadership in Incident Management: Take a leadership role in incident response, providing critical technical direction and mentorship during high-pressure situations.
- Champion Post-Mortem Excellence: Lead and contribute to in-depth blameless post-mortem analyses, driving significant improvements based on learnings.
- Mentor and Guide Team Members: Share your extensive knowledge and experience to mentor and guide other SREs and engineers, fostering their technical growth.
- Extensive experience with minimum 5 years in SRE, platform engineering, or software development with a strong operational focus.
- Demonstrated experience in providing technical leadership, guidance, or mentorship to engineering teams.
- Expert-level practical knowledge of cloud platforms, especially GCP.
- Deep hands-on experience with container orchestration (Kubernetes) and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Helm, ArgoCD).
- Strong command of multiple scripting and programming languages (Python, Go, Bash).
- Proven expertise in building and leveraging advanced monitoring and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack).
- Exceptional analytical, problem-solving, and debugging skills at a senior level.
- Excellent communication, collaboration, and influencing skills.
- Organizational and leadership skills are a big plus
- Location dependent
We do not make hiring decisions based on educational history whatsoever. Our Founder is a college dropout. We work with high school dropouts, PHD candidates and everything in-between. We do not hire credentials. We simply partner with talented, passionate individuals who are excited to be a part of our team.
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