Associate Site Reliability Engineer

Advertising, subscriptions and transaction fees each bring in a significant share of revenue. Traffic during holiday peaks can reach ten times normal levels, and the platform is built for it. We started in 1996 and have grown to about 109,600 people.

The role

Canalcross's Observability team owns uptime for services that customers depend on around the clock. You'll split time between engineering work and operational load. We need another Associate Site Reliability Engineer to keep our production systems available, measurable and boring. Our headquarters is in Madrid, and about a third of the team works remotely from other countries. You will be employed through our employer-of-record partner in Pakistan, with a local contract and salary paid in Pakistani rupees. Working hours overlap with Central European Time. You will need a stable internet connection and a backup power source (UPS or inverter).

In this role you will

• Run capacity planning and load tests with k6, Locust or Gatling
• Review architecture proposals for reliability risks before launch
• Maintain on-call schedules, runbooks and escalation policies in PagerDuty or Opsgenie
• Define SLIs and SLOs with service owners and track error budgets
• Reduce toil by measuring it and automating the worst offenders
• Harden databases and caches with replication, backups and restore drills
• Build and tune alerting so pages are actionable and rare
• Plan and run game days and chaos experiments

What you need

• 1+ years in SRE, production engineering or infrastructure roles
• Deep Linux knowledge, including systemd, networking and tools like strace and tcpdump
• Hands-on with metrics, logging and tracing systems
• Production experience with Kubernetes and a major cloud provider

Preferred qualifications

• Multi-region or active-active architecture
• CKA or CKS certification
• OpenTelemetry instrumentation
• Contributions to open source observability projects

What you get

• Paid parental leave
• Annual learning budget
• 24 days paid time off
• Flexible hours
• Public holidays observed per your country
• Annual salary review

Start: Within 30 days.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Canalcross.