Site Reliability Engineer

For over 31,000 growing businesses and HR teams seeking a comprehensive, all-in-one HR suite, Workable emerges as the premier solution. We uniquely combine the world’s most widely adopted Applicant Tracking System (Workable Recruiting) with a full-spectrum employee management system (Workable HR). At Workable, we empower companies to focus on what truly matters: hiring the right people and fostering their growth.

While we take HR seriously, we maintain a lighthearted and collaborative culture. At Workable, you’ll find smart people who have fun, learn, innovate, and help others do the same. 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 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. 

Responsibilities

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

• Develop tools and automations to make operations and deployments simpler and more robust.
• Operate, deploy, and monitor cloud services from development to production.
• Working in a highly cross-functional team with Developers on designing, releasing, and troubleshooting production systems.
• Be responsible for the availability, scalability, and performance of our systems.
• Troubleshoot issues, do capacity planning, and analyze system performance.
• 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, troubleshooting and sysadmin skills
• Passion for cutting-edge cloud technologies and automation
• Strong curiosity for discovering new insights and eager to challenge the status quo
• 2+ 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
• Knowledge of Linux systems
• Familiarity of at least one programming language (preferably Go, Python, C++)
• 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: Familiarity with Relational Databases 
• Bonus: Familiarity with NOSQL databases (MongoDB, Redis, Elastic, etc.)
• Bonus: Networking skills, especially TCP/IP, HTTP, DNS and load balancers

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:

• 💼 Comprehensive Health Coverage: A robust health insurance plan that includes coverage for your dependents.
• 💰 Competitive Compensation: An attractive salary paired with a performance-based bonus plan.
• 🏠 Flexible Work Model: Enjoy the best of both worlds with a hybrid setup—two days working from home and three in the office.
• 🖥️ Top-Tier Tools: Apple gear and access to the latest productivity tools to help you excel.
• 📱 Stay Connected: A mobile data plan to keep you online wherever you are.
• 🍴 Delicious Perks: Fresh, tasty food at the office to fuel your productivity.
• 🌴 Generous Time Off: Take the time you need to relax and recharge with our ample PTO policy.

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