Site Reliability Engineer - Compute System & Network

Exoscale
München, Germany
11 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Shift work

Tech stack

Configuration Management Linux Python (Programming Language) Kernel-Based Virtual Machine Network Layer Reliability Engineering Encapsulation (Networking) Virtual Machines Virtualization Technology Network Routing Bare Metal Hardware Infrastructure
+1 more
Golang

Job description

The Site Reliability Engineer plays a critical role in ensuring constant availability of the Exoscale platform. The engineering team at Exoscale works on all aspects from designing & developing products, to their operation and support. With an expanding customer base and new products to further advance Exoscale’s product portfolio, Site Reliability Engineers build and maintain a wide range of technologies. As users of Exoscale itself, Site Reliability Engineers also take active part in improving products. This position focuses on designing and maintaining Exoscale’s base systems and hypervisor internals including Layer 3 networking and security layers. Location: Madrid, Munich or Remote in EU Some of the challenges you will be working on:

  • Design and maintain Exoscale’s operating systems and hypervisor fleets, from kernels to the network stacks, passing by security filtering layers.

  • Contribute to the routing & security automation systems implementations.

  • Help shape our operating system images strategy, from bare metal to Virtual Machines.

  • Maintain and improve the system container runtimes.

  • Improve our provisioning and deployment systems.

  • Help improve bare metal and hypervisor systems performance.

  • Contribute to the overall design and the architecture of the Exoscale platform systems.

  • Contribute to internal tooling development.

  • Improve our systems and processes to be scalable and highly available, helping achieve outstanding SLAs.
  • Participate in code & changes reviews.

Requirements

  • Have a solid experience with Linux, its kernel and Systemd.

  • Are familiar with KVM virtualization.

  • Are familiar with network routing and transport, have good understandings of encapsulation protocols.

  • Have a good knowledge of eBPF.

  • Have a good knowledge of container runtimes.

  • Have a good experience with Golang, Python

  • Are familiar with server hardware.

  • Have experience with configuration management solutions and large scale infrastructure.

  • Love to automate anything that could be and inclined to write documentation.

  • Are curious, autonomous and embrace learning new things everyday.

  • Are team players and are comfortable working in a distributed team.

  • Have good English communication skills, written and spoken.

Benefits & conditions

What we offer:

  • Flexible working hours and working from home.

  • Autonomous working conditions with a lot of freedom to create and challenge.

  • Collaborative culture, working alongside talented engineers in a supportive environment.

  • Modern working atmosphere and centrally located office with great public transport connection.

  • Team events as well as training and further education.

About the company

Exoscale is the leading Swiss/European cloud service provider. With services covering the full cloud infrastructure spectrum - from fast deploying virtual machines to S3 compatible object storage - Exoscale provides a simple and scalable experience in order to let its clients focus on their core business. Join a dynamic working environment with a multi-cultural cutting-edge team distributed across Europe. With headquarters based in Lausanne, Exoscale strives to create an environment with great working conditions and welcomes diverse applicants. As part of its ongoing efforts to grow its infrastructure footprint Exoscale is hiring a Site Reliability Engineer.

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