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# Senior Software Site Reliability Engineer II

- **Company:** Credit Karma, Inc.
- **Location:** Greater London, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Query Performance, Bash Shell, Databases, Data Loss, DevOps, Distributed Systems, Python (Programming Language), MySQL, Reliability Engineering, Prometheus, TypeScript, Web Applications, Google Cloud, Grafana, Mttr, Kubernetes, Terraform, Splunk, New Relic (SaaS), Programming Languages
- **Published:** September 8, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.collegerecruiter.com/job/2840640061-senior-software-site-reliability-engineer-ii

## About the Role

* Have Significant Experience: You have 5+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or relevant platform engineering roles.
 * Have cloud Expertise: Professional experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform) and public cloud providers like GCP.
 * Have container Mastery: Experience with container orchestration systems like Kubernetes.
 * Can Scale Systems: You have experience working in production environments at scale and architecting infrastructure for modern web applications.
 * Have Monitoring Proficiency: Working knowledge of a modern monitoring stack, such as Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, or New Relic.
 * Are a Clear Communicator: You can clearly articulate technical details and communicate vertically and horizontally within an organization.
 * Are Automation-Centric: You are passionate about solving operational challenges by using software and reducing manual toil through writing Python/Bash scripts.

Strong candidates might:

 * Understand MySQL Internals: You have a solid understanding of database system internals (such as InnoDB) and their impact on query performance.
 * Have Polyglot Interests: Familiarity with additional programming languages like Scala or TypeScript.

## Description

* Build and Automate: Utilize software to achieve a highly available, scalable, and reliable storage and infrastructure platform using Python or Go.
 * Orchestrate Infrastructure: Work within a large distributed system based on Kubernetes, Terraform, and Google Cloud Platform.
 * Database Management: Manage Cloud SQL MySQL databases, implementing distributed architectures and preventing data loss through replication technologies.
 * Collaborate and Consult: Work closely with product developers to translate application requirements into infrastructure capabilities and observability patterns.
 * Drive Reliability: Participate in technical design, troubleshooting, and incident response to reduce business impact and improve MTTR.

What is great about the role:

 * High Impact: Your contributions will have a noticeable impact on our members as well as your fellow Karmanauts.
 * Autonomy and Pace: Experience the autonomy and quick decision-making of a startup with the stability of a mature, engineering-focused organization.
 * Modern Tech Stack: Get broad exposure to progressive technologies such as Kubernetes, Terraform, GCP, and modern datastores.
 * Continuous Growth: You will grow, learn, and have fun doing it - it's a core part of our culture.


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