Remote Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Xtremepush
Maidstone, United Kingdom
3 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English
Experience level
Senior
Compensation
£ 98K

Job location

Remote
Maidstone, United Kingdom

Tech stack

PHP
API
Artificial Intelligence
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Big Data
Software as a Service
Cloud Computing
Databases
Continuous Integration
Linux
DevOps
Distributed Systems
Python
Machine Learning
MySQL
Performance Tuning
Reliability Engineering
Prometheus
Caching
Vue.js
Event Driven Architecture
Data Analytics
Kafka
Vertica
Terraform
Go

Job description

  • Act as a senior member of our SRE team, supporting backlog and workload management, scoping requirements, peer review of code, and providing feedback to the team
  • Represent our team in management and stakeholder meetings, uphold best practices, and suggest improvements to our development processes
  • Investigate, test, and resolve technical problems while working closely with other engineers to deliver core product functionality
  • Define SLOs, SLIs, and SLAs for key metrics covering the health, security, stability, and uptime of our production, staging, and development environments
  • Monitor our environments and respond to alerts and issues arising in day-to-day operations
  • Participate in our on-call rota for priority-1 alarms with the wider Platform teams
  • Drive ongoing upgrades and improvements to operational processes to optimise performance, stability, and cost
  • Work with our platform engineering team to plan application and infrastructure releases and configuration changes
  • Interact with internal teams and external third-party vendors to troubleshoot and resolve complex problems

Technologies:

  • AI
  • API
  • AWS
  • Big Data
  • CI/CD
  • ClickHouse
  • Cloud
  • DevOps
  • Golang
  • Kafka
  • Linux
  • Marketing
  • MySQL
  • OpenTelemetry
  • PHP
  • Prometheus
  • Python
  • Security
  • Terraform
  • Vue
  • Machine Learning
  • REST

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience in an engineering role supporting a scaled SaaS platform running on Linux in a cloud environment
  • Experience working with high-performance systems and solving complex engineering problems at scale
  • Understanding of distributed systems design, including asynchronous tasks, event-driven architecture, scheduling, caching, and queue processing
  • Ability to apply distributed systems knowledge to resolve scaling constraints and perform performance tuning across API, application, and database layers
  • Strong communication skills and the ability to explain complex technical solutions clearly
  • Strong understanding of PHP, GoLang, MySQL, OpenTelemetry, and Prometheus
  • Experience with cloud and DevOps technologies such as AWS, Terraform, and CI/CD
  • Experience with technologies in our stack such as ClickHouse, Kafka, Pulsar, and Python
  • Experience with networking and security concepts
  • Interest or experience with marketing technologies
  • Interest or experience with big data, data analytics, AI, and machine learning, We are seeking a Senior SRE to join our team focused on site reliability, security, and scalability as we manage rapid growth. Our core technologies include PHP, MySQL, Vue.js, and AWS. This is a remote role with locations in Ireland (Dublin) or the UK (London or Milton Keynes), and participation in an on-call roster is required.

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