Site Reliability Engineer

Huxley Associates
Amsterdam, Netherlands
8 days ago
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Role details

Contract type
Temporary contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Job source

Tech stack

Java (Programming Language) Amazon Web Services Computer Programming Databases Distributed Data Store Amazon DynamoDB Elasticsearch Python (Programming Language) NoSQL Performance Tuning Reliability Engineering Software Engineering
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System Availability Database Migration Infrastructure Automation Frameworks Cassandra Terraform

Job description

We are looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to join a platform team responsible for operating and evolving a large-scale NoSQL database environment that supports business-critical services used by millions of users worldwide. This role sits at the intersection of Software Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, and Platform Engineering. You will work on reliability, scalability, automation, and modernization of distributed database systems, while helping reduce operational toil through software development and infrastructure automation. The team owns the database platform end-to-end and is responsible for ensuring high availability, performance, capacity optimization, and operational excellence across both cloud and hybrid environments., * Operate, maintain, and optimize large-scale NoSQL database environments.

  • Improve platform reliability through SLI/SLO-driven engineering practices.
  • Develop automation and tooling to reduce operational workload and manual processes.
  • Design and implement scalable solutions for distributed database platforms.
  • Support database migrations, upgrades, and modernization initiatives.
  • Contribute to capacity planning, performance tuning, and cost optimization.
  • Build, maintain, and improve infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code principles.
  • Participate in incident response, troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and postmortems.
  • Collaborate closely with software engineers, platform teams, and stakeholders across the organization.
  • Continuously evaluate emerging technologies and propose improvements to the platform landscape.

Requirements

  • Strong experience with Cassandra and Dynamo
  • Experience operating distributed database systems in production environments.
  • Hands-on AWS experience.
  • Strong Terraform knowledge.
  • Programming experience in Python and Java
  • Understanding of SLI, SLO, SLA, and reliability engineering principles.
  • Experience with automation, observability, monitoring, and alerting.
  • Knowledge of Elasticsearch or DynamoDB is highly beneficial.
  • Strong communication skills and a collaborative mindset.

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