Responsibilities
- Assist in scaling backend systems to accommodate high-volume customers.
- Build organizational trust through transparent communication and constructive feedback.
- Collaborate with backend teams to optimize infrastructure usage.
- Train as an Incident Commander, then train others in the role.
- Promote a healthy cross-Atlantic engineering culture within the SRE team and company.
- Participate in the team's on-call rotation as the EU side of a new follow-the-sun schedule.
- Guide the organization in balancing reliability with other goals and priorities.
- Optionally act as an external ambassador through blog posts, conference talks, and presentations with DevRel support.
Requirements
- Strong experience with AWS and Kubernetes.
- Experience in cost analysis and reduction.
- Solid experience with Helm, Terraform, and CI/CD.
- Project management skills.
- Software engineering experience (Golang and performance engineering are pluses).
- Experience with Kafka or another high-volume distributed system.
- Excellent written and spoken communication skills, with ability to tailor messages and give direct feedback.
- Curiosity about how people and systems work, and willingness to make them partners in initiatives.
- Familiarity with observability concepts (SLOs, instrumentation) and data-driven decision making.
- Comfort operating in ambiguity with a bias for action and experimentation.
- Interest in both technical and human aspects of reliability engineering.
- Experience working in geographically distributed teams.
Nice to Have
- Golang experience is a plus.
- Performance engineering experience is a plus.
Benefits
- Generous equity with an employee-friendly stock program.
- Pay based on transparent levels relative to experience.
- Unlimited PTO.
- Distributed-first mindset and culture.
- Home office, co-working, and internet stipend.
- Full benefits coverage for employees, with additional coverage for dependents.
- Up to 16 weeks of paid parental leave, regardless of path to parenthood.
- Annual development allowance.
- And much more.
Compensation
Pay based on transparent levels relative to experience.
Work Arrangement
Remote (Worldwide)
Other
- We are a fully distributed company, meaning we believe it is not where you sit, but how you deliver that matters most.
- #LI-Remote
- Participate in the team’s on-call rotation as the EU side of a new follow-the-sun rotation.
- Please note we cannot currently sponsor or support visa transfers at this time.
- Additionally, in compliance with applicable law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work.
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We cannot currently sponsor or support visa transfers at this time.
