Principal Site Reliability Engineer

About us

Since 2017, the company has run a comparison site for car insurance, mortgages and credit cards. Support shifts are shared, so engineers spend a few hours a quarter answering customer tickets.

What this job is

The role is new and comes from growth in our client base. We need another Principal Site Reliability Engineer to keep our production systems available, measurable and boring. Our headquarters is in Leeds, and about a third of the team works remotely from other countries. Contract role, full-time hours, paid in USD at the end of each month. You will need to be available during UK office hours, at least until 3:00 PM GMT. We use Slack, Notion and Google Meet. Cameras on for team calls.

What you'll do

• Manage Kubernetes clusters, node pools and autoscaling.
• Run capacity planning and load tests with k6, Locust or Gatling.
• Reduce toil by measuring it and automating the worst offenders.
• Lead incident response as incident commander and run blameless postmortems.
• Define SLIs and SLOs with service owners and track error budgets.
• Plan and run game days and chaos experiments.

What you bring

• 7+ years in SRE, production engineering or infrastructure roles.
• Hands-on with metrics, logging and tracing systems.
• Experience participating in and leading on-call rotations.

Preferred

• Multi-region or active-active architecture.
• Running PostgreSQL, Cassandra, Kafka or Elasticsearch at scale.

What we offer

• Paid in USD.
• Monthly payments via wire transfer or Wise.
• Flexible hours.

We may close this posting early once we have enough applications.

Duration: 3 months. Start: Immediately.

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