Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Midnight

What the role involves:

• Infrastructure & Automation:
  • Design, build, and maintain scalable and highly available systems, primarily on AWS, using best practices.
  • Manage and optimize Kubernetes clusters for high availability and performance, extending them when it makes sense to expand functionality.
  • Leverage GitOps principles to automate deployments and manage container orchestration.
  • Implement and manage CI/CD pipelines ensuring seamless, high-quality deployments, finding and removing bottlenecks, improving performance and working alongside teams to refine feedback loops and automate toil away.
  • Develop automation tools and scripts to improve operational efficiency.
• Monitoring & Incident Response:
  • Implement robust monitoring solutions with Prometheus and related tooling to ensure system health and performance.
  • Participate in on-call rotations and lead incident response efforts, turning challenges into learning opportunities.
  • Collaborate with dev teams to define and implement SLOs/SLIs
• Problem Solving & Communication:
  • Take vague or loosely defined problems, work closely with cross-functional teams, and distill them into clear, actionable plans.
  • Communicate technical solutions and incident retrospectives effectively across both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Innovation & Continuous Improvement:
  • Evaluate and adopt new technologies, with a special advantage for candidates with blockchain experience, to keep our systems at the cutting edge.
  • Document processes and best practices, ensuring that knowledge is shared across the team and continuously improved.
  • Strive to strike a balance between effective delivery of goals and a measurable high standard of these goals. Always apply a layer of polish and due diligence when delivering.

Who you are:

• 7+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or a related role.
• Understanding of SRE best practices, architectures, and methods.
• Good knowledge on resiliency patterns and cloud security.
• Strong programming proficiency in Python, Golang, or Javascript.
• Rust experience is advantageous
• Demonstrated experience with AWS and modern cloud architectures.
• Proficiency in Helm, Terraform, and CI/CD tools like Github Actions and ArgoCD
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes/EKS and GitOps methodologies.
• Proven track record with monitoring tools such as Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, as well as familiarity with the LGTM stack, or other comparable tools
• Blockchain experience is advantageous, offering a unique perspective on distributed systems and security.
• Exceptional problem-solving skills with a knack for translating vague requirements into clear, strategic plans.
• Ability to engage in technical discussions and be part of the decision making process
• Strong problem-solving skills and capability to work on complex systems
• Experience in working within an Agile environment
• Experience in working with a distributed team
• Strong communication and collaboration abilities to work seamlessly across different teams.
• A proactive and innovative mindset, with a passion for continuous improvement and operational excellence.