Hopper is hiring a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join our Platform team, with a focus on Cloud FinOps and reliability. You will be responsible for managing our large-scale Google Cloud infrastructure, used by hundreds of engineers to serve millions of users, with a passion for automation, optimization, and building cost-effective systems.
What You'll Do
- Work on projects to drive higher cost efficiency, such as reducing network egress costs and optimizing storage and autoscaling.
- Improve cost attribution to ensure all teams have clear visibility into their costs.
- Participate in incident support and be part of the on-call rotation for platform incidents.
- Solve doubts and problems engineers face with infrastructure and approve PRs requiring Platform supervision.
- Contribute as part of a small, highly efficient team of SREs.
What We're Looking For
- Strong background in SRE, DevOps, Software Engineering, or Systems Engineering.
- Proven troubleshooting and system design skills with good analytical capabilities.
- Good communication skills.
- Knowledge of major cloud providers, preferably Google Cloud.
- SQL knowledge.
- Experience with containers, Kubernetes, and related tooling like Kustomize and Helm.
- Networking knowledge (DNS, TLS, certificates, ingresses).
- Observability experience with log collection, metrics, APM, preferably Datadog.
- Security knowledge (IAM, RBAC, network security).
- Knowledge of authentication and authorization technologies.
- CI/CD experience.
- Database technologies knowledge.
- Competent in scripting with Bash and Python or other scripting languages.
Nice to Have
- Service Mesh experience, preferably with Istio.
Technical Stack
- Google Cloud, Kubernetes, Kustomize, Helm, Istio, SQL, Datadog, Bash, Python
Team & Environment
You will join a small team of SREs that is part of the Cloud FinOps team within Platform, operating in an entrepreneurial culture where pushing limits and taking risks is everyday business. Expect open communication and high impact in a dynamic setting.
Benefits & Compensation
- Competitive salary and pre-IPO equity packages.
- Employee premiums covered for private medical and dental coverage.
- Private life and accident coverage.
- Generous parental leave above industry standards.
- Access to co-working space on demand through FlexDesk.
- Work-from-home stipend.
- Unlimited PTO.
- Monthly cash allowances for gym memberships and home-office expenses.
- Carrot Cash travel stipend.
Work Mode
This is a 100% remote position open to candidates based in Spain.
Hopper is an equal opportunity employer.
