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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Site Reliability Engineer - **Company:** Paddle Market Limited - **Location:** UK (Remote available) - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Code Generation, Code Review, Databases, Continuous Integration, Data Stores, Software Debugging, DevOps, Disaster Recovery, Distributed Systems, Domain Name System (DNS), Monitoring of Systems, Laravel, PostgreSQL, Linux System Administration, Load Testing, Microsoft Message Queuing, MySQL, Queueing Systems, Redis, Software Engineering, Data Storage Technologies, Grafana, AWS ECS, Cloudflare, AWS Fargate, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), Terraform, Docker, Microservices - **Published:** September 5, 2026 - **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/site-reliability-engineer-paddle-2-8401984 ## About the Role * A software development background, with experience shipping and operating production services, plus strong fundamentals in testing, code review, CI/CD, and debugging. * Have experience working across the AWS ecosystem, partnering closely with AWS Solution Architects and subject-matter experts to design, review, and operate production systems * A curiosity about AI and how it's reshaping software development. * Collaborative, security-minded, and detail-oriented. We move quickly, so you'll thrive if you enjoy a fast-paced environment and take pride in doing things the right way. * Knowledge of platform and ops concepts such as networking and Linux administration * Experience working with microservices and distributed systems at scale * Experience with monitoring tools: we use Opentelemetry, Honeycomb, Grafana, Pingdom and Incident.io ## Description As a Site Reliability Engineer, you'll be helping to drive our product and engineering department forward, ensuring reliability on different parts of the Paddle platform and helping our Engineers to work better and more efficiently. Paddle SRE team's role is "Everything SRE", with a focus on infrastructure, reliability standards, and practices. The SRE team is part of the Platform function. By following this model: * It's easy to spot patterns and draw similarities between services and projects. * We act as a glue between disparate product teams, creating solutions out of distinct pieces of software. * Enable product engineers to use DevOps practices to maintain user-facing products without divergence in practice across the business. * Define production standards as code and work to smooth out any sharp edges to greatly simplify things for the product engineers running their services. You are empowered to use the right tech for the job. You'll have the freedom to input into what technology and tooling are used and educate the rest of your colleagues accordingly. As an SRE, we want you to be a driving force of improving and automating how our product teams develop software at all stages of its lifecycle, which we strive to achieve with strong collaboration and communication with our fellow engineers. Tech Stack: * Go for our new services * PHP Laravel for our Classic system * Aurora MySQL and PostgreSQL for persistent data storage * Docker in production and local development * AWS ECS Fargate for our runtime * AWS SQS for asynchronous message queues * AWS EventBridge for our event bus * Redis for key/value store * Terraform for resource management * Honeycomb, SLOs and OpenTelemetry for our observability needs * Cloudflare for our firewall and DNS server What you'll do: * Develop and maintain tools to maximise engineering efficiency; such as but not limited to automating deployment infrastructure and database upgrades * Seek out processes that can be improved with automation and have internal Developer Experience as a main driver. Collaborate and enable engineers to do their jobs more efficiently, working with other engineers on a regular basis * Create, maintain and test our system disaster recovery process, including tooling to automate the process * You'll be able to choose from a selection of AI tools to support day-to-day work (e.g. code generation, investigation, automation, and documentation), and we'll back sensible experimentation with the right guardrails. * Handle production incidents, author blameless postmortems and enrich operational playbooks and runbooks * Monitoring, alerting, and SLO tracking; hands-on SRE work, not just DevOps-style monitoring * Run performance investigations (load testing, bottleneck analysis) and drive tuning across apps, data stores and AWS. * Own cost optimisation workstreams: right-sizing, autoscaling policies, workload scheduling, storage tiering, and identifying waste across ECS/Fargate, RDS/Aurora, SQS and observability. * Be an advocate of the GitOps methodology ## Related Videos - [Building an agentic software factory: How we rebuilt product development at Pipedrive](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100261-building-an-agentic-software-factory-how-we-rebuilt-product-development-at-pipedrive) - [Reducing LLM Calls with Vector Search Patterns - Raphael De Lio (Redis)](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1714-reducing-llm-calls-with-vector-search-patterns-raphael-de-lio-redis) - [MySQL Protocol Features You Should Be Aware Of](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100267-mysql-protocol-features-you-should-be-aware-of) - [From DevOps to Scaled DevOps: How We’re Rebuilding Continuous Delivery as a Platform](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100018-from-devops-to-scaled-devops-how-we-re-rebuilding-continuous-delivery-as-a-platform) - [Navigating the Corporate Jungle: Life as a Developer in a large Company](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/621-navigating-the-corporate-jungle-life-as-a-developer-in-a-large-company) - [Accelerating Authentication Architecture: Taking Passwordless to the Next Level](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/733-accelerating-authentication-architecture-taking-passwordless-to-the-next-level) ## Related Articles - [Dev Digest 120 - Apple and peers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/455-dev-digest-120-apple-and-peers) - [Fully Remote Software Engineer Jobs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/447-fully-remote-software-engineer-jobs) - [Find a Developer Job: 12 Best Job Sites For Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/165-find-a-developer-job-12-best-job-sites-for-developers) - [Dev Digest 121 - AI goes offline](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/456-dev-digest-121-ai-goes-offline) - [Dev Digest 137 - AI'm not sure about this](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/485-dev-digest-137-ai-m-not-sure-about-this) - [Navigating the AI Shift](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/629-navigating-the-ai-shift)