Lead/Senior Site Reliability Engineering
Work Location : UK (EMEA) – Remote
Shift timings: Regular UK shift
Examples of projects our team works on:
● Design, deploy and scale our Prometheus architecture to handle 100+ million active
series and beyond.
● Deploy and operate large, high-performance ElasticSearch clusters holding 2000+TB of
data.
● Deploy and grow high-throughput data pipelines built on Kafka, handling hundreds of
thousands of events per second.
● Design and build an alerting system that allows engineering teams to construct alerts
from multiple data sources and alerting workflows.
● Write libraries and APIs that give engineers self-service access to our monitoring,
logging, and other observability systems.
● Use Terraform to deploy public and private cloud infrastructure.
You are an ideal candidate if you:
● Have 5+ years’ experience designing, deploying and operating mid to large size
distributed systems on VMs or bare metal machines running Linux (we run Debian and
Ubuntu).
● Have 2+ years’ experience developing with languages like Ruby, Python, Go, Scala, or
Bash.
● Are excited by the challenge of solving difficult problems in large distributed systems that deal with huge amounts of data.
● Want to work on a highly autonomous team that cares deeply about quality and
customer experience.
● Are curious, learn fast and feel comfortable diving into unfamiliar code and systems to solve problems.
● Understand the value of observability and can work with other teams to help them better monitor their services.
● Are willing to be part of a production on-call rotation.
● Have direct experience with the following technologies (or similar): Elasticsearch
Logstash Kibana (ELK) stack, Kafka, Prometheus/Thanos/Cortex, Graphite, Ansible,
Terraform, Consul.
● Have strong experience in building out solitons based on Software engineering best
practices.
Keywords: Observability, Monitoring, SRE, Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, ElasticSearch, Logstash, Kibana, ELK, Grafana, Graphite, Prometheus, Kafka, Snowflake, Ansible, Ruby Terraform, Consul.
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