Toronto, Ontario, Canada Remote (Global) Employment CAD 200,000 - 300,000 Yearly

Hopper is hiring a Site Reliability Engineer

About the Role

Join Hopper as a Senior Site Reliability Engineer on the Cloud FinOps team. You will be responsible for managing our extensive Google Cloud infrastructure, which is used by hundreds of engineers to serve millions of end users globally. Your work will be critical to driving automation, optimization, scalability, reliability, and security across our platform.

What You'll Do

  • Drive higher cost efficiency through projects like reducing network egress costs, optimizing data warehouse storage, and ensuring autoscaling for databases and compute is well optimized.
  • Improve current cost attribution to ensure all teams have clear visibility into their costs.
  • Participate in providing support to incidents and be part of on-call rotation for platform incidents.
  • Contribute to solving doubts and problems engineers might face with our infrastructure and approving PRs that require Platform supervision.

What We're Looking For

  • A strong background in SRE, DevOps, Software Engineering, or Systems engineering.
  • Excellent troubleshooting skills and system design 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.
  • Familiarity with Service Mesh, preferably Istio.
  • Networking knowledge (DNS, TLS, certificates, ingresses, etc.).
  • Experience with observability using log collection, metrics, APM, etc., preferably Datadog.
  • Security knowledge (IAM, RBAC, network security, etc.).
  • Knowledge of authentication and authorization technologies.
  • Experience with CI/CD pipelines.
  • Understanding of database technologies.
  • Competence in scripting with Bash and Python or other scripting languages.

Technical Stack

  • Google Cloud
  • Kubernetes, Kustomize, Helm
  • Istio
  • Datadog
  • SQL
  • Bash, Python

Team & Environment

You will join a small and highly efficient team of SREs within the Cloud FinOps group. At Hopper, we maintain an entrepreneurial culture where pushing limits and taking risks is everyday business. We emphasize open communication and operate in small, dynamic teams where you can have a massive impact.

Benefits & Compensation

  • Competitive salary and upsides of pre-IPO equity packages.
  • Hopper covers 100% of the premiums for group insurance plan.
  • Hopper offers life, short term and long term disability coverage.
  • HSA that covers eligible medical and dental expenses.
  • Access to Dialogue’s telemedicine services for all employees and dependents.
  • Access to an RRSP plan with automatic pre-tax withdrawals per pay.
  • Generous parental leave, much above industry standards.
  • Unlimited PTO.
  • Carrot Cash travel stipend.
  • Access to co-working space on demand through FlexDesk AND Work-from-home stipend.

Work Mode

This is a global role open to candidates in America and Europe.

Required Skills
Google CloudKubernetesKustomizeHelmIstioDatadogSQLBashPythonSREDevOpsSoftware EngineeringSystems engineeringTroubleshootingSystem design
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Hopper

Hopper is a travel platform powering its mobile app, website, and B2B business (Hopper Technology Solutions). It combines a travel agency with proprietary fintech products using data and machine learning to bring transparency, flexibility, and savings to travelers globally. The company serves hundreds of millions of travelers and powers travel portals for partners like Capital One, Air Canada, and Nubank.

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Job Details
Department Engineering
Category infrastructure
Posted 14 days ago