Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Workable makes software to help companies find and hire great people. We get recruiting and its role in building healthy workplaces — which is why we’re proud more than 20,000 teams around the world use Workable to do exactly that.

At Workable, you’ll find smart people who have fun, learn and innovate, and help others do the same. We brainstorm, we laugh, and, occasionally, we party (there’s a lot to celebrate), but we also appreciate people’s need for quiet time and focused work. We respect everyone, we hire the best, and make sure every experience is special.

We’re growing fast and we want to make sure that we scale from thousands to hundreds of thousands so we’re looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join our SRE team.

Our product is built with a microservices architecture deployed on the Kubernetes platform. Our SRE team is responsible for deploying, monitoring, optimizing, and securing our cloud infrastructure and company software; both rapidly expanding. Automation is at the core of what we do. If you love working with new technologies, open-source software, and solving complex problems on highly distributed systems then this is the job for you! You will be part of a talented team of engineers that demonstrate superb technical competency, delivering mission-critical infrastructure and ensuring the highest levels of availability, performance, and security. 

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer in this team with an emphasis on Observability, you will be responsible for the following:

• Operate, deploy, and monitor cloud services from development to production with an emphasis on our observability tooling 
• Working in a highly cross-functional team with Developers on designing, releasing, and troubleshooting production systems and supporting them in properly instrumenting their applications and services.
• Develop tools and automations to make operations and deployments simpler and more robust.
• Be responsible for the availability, scalability, and performance of our systems and continuously improve their monitoring to provide better insights.
• Troubleshoot issues, analyze system performance and continuously enhance our alerting system to ensure proactive detection of issues.
• Lead projects within the team and be responsible for their timely delivery.

Requirements

• BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering (or a proven strong background)
• Excellent communication skills in English, particularly written communication.
• Analytical and troubleshooting skills on large-scale distributed systems
• Work independently and be able to deliver projects on time.
• Passion for cutting-edge cloud technologies and automation
• 5+ years of relevant work experience, including programming experience
• Experience with Kubernetes platform and technology stack
• Experience with a major cloud provider (GCP and AWS preferred)
• Experience with configuration management and orchestration tools (e.g., Ansible, Terraform)
• Experience with centralized logging, monitoring systems, and tooling frameworks
• Deep knowledge of Linux systems
• Familiarity of at least one programming language (preferably Python, Go, Java, C++)
• Familiarity with Relational and NOSQL (MongoDB, Redis, Elastic, etc.) databases 
• Oh, and if you're into DevOps technologies and the CNCF ecosystem, but have experience with other frameworks, please do apply. We value quality engineers not the tools they've used.

Preferred qualifications:

• Bonus: Networking skills, especially TCP/IP, HTTP, DNS and load balancers
• Bonus: Experience with remote working

Benefits

Our employees enjoy benefits that make them more productive and contribute directly to the development of their professional skills. We want to be able to attract the best of the best and make sure they keep getting better. On top of an exciting, vibrant and intellectually challenging environment, we are offering:

• An attractive salary and a bonus plan
• Health insurance plan including dependents
• Mobile data plan
• Apple gear and access to the best productivity tools
• Annual retreats in awesome locations

Workable is most decidedly an equal opportunity employer. We want applicants of diverse background and hire without regard to colour, gender, religion, national origin, citizenship, disability, age, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by law.