Hopper is looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join the Platform Infrastructure team. You’ll be responsible for building and operating the cloud foundation that powers Hopper’s products. Your mission is to empower engineers across the company to ship fast, stay resilient, and scale effortlessly by evolving our large-scale, multi-region GCP infrastructure and building automated, self-service platform tools. This is a 100% remote position for candidates based in Spain.
What You'll Do
- Improve and evolve platform tooling to support a growing number of services and teams.
- Design simple, consistent, and scalable infrastructure workflows for engineers to build and deploy with confidence.
- Drive automation across key infrastructure components to reduce manual work and increase reliability.
- Adapt and scale infrastructure offerings to meet product team needs while maintaining a cohesive platform.
- Participate in incident response for platform-level issues as part of a globally distributed, sustainable on-call rotation.
- Support engineering teams by troubleshooting platform issues, answering infrastructure questions, and reviewing relevant pull requests.
- Collaborate with a small, high-impact team of SREs focused on operational excellence, performance, and developer experience.
What We're Looking For
- Professional experience in SRE, DevOps, Software Engineering, or Systems Engineering.
- Strong troubleshooting and incident response skills across distributed systems and cloud-native environments.
- Solid system design and analytical thinking with a focus on simplicity, performance, and maintainability.
- Clear and effective communication skills for collaboration across teams.
- Hands-on experience with major cloud platforms, ideally Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
- Deep familiarity with Infrastructure as Code, preferably Terraform.
- Experience building and operating with containers and Kubernetes, and tools like Helm or Kustomize.
- Working knowledge of Service Mesh technologies, preferably Istio.
- Solid understanding of networking fundamentals (DNS, TLS, certificates, ingress controllers).
- Knowledge of cloud and infrastructure security best practices (IAM, RBAC, network segmentation).
- Familiarity with authentication and authorization protocols and technologies.
- Experience with observability stacks (logs, metrics, tracing, APM), preferably Datadog.
- Practical knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
- Exposure to database technologies, both SQL and NoSQL.
- Comfortable writing scripts in Bash, Python, or similar languages to automate tasks and build tooling.
Technical Stack
- Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
- Terraform
- Kubernetes
- Helm
- Kustomize
- Istio
- Datadog
Team & Environment
You’ll join a small, high-impact team of SREs within the Platform Infrastructure team.
Benefits & Compensation
- Competitive salary and pre-IPO equity packages.
- Employee premiums for private medical and dental coverage covered by Hopper.
- 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 in Spain.
Hopper is an equal opportunity employer.
