Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Storage

Our engineering group is split into roughly 60 product teams, each owning its services end to end, with on-call shared across time zones. Headquartered in Sydney since 2006, the company now sells in 40 countries and supports customers in 11 languages. We started in 2006 and have grown to about 590 people. Most engineers work remotely and come into the office one week a quarter for planning.

The position

The Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Storage will define SLOs with product teams, improve alerting and help lead incidents when they happen. You will be employed through our employer-of-record partner in the US, with a local contract and salary paid in USD. You will need some overlap with Australian Eastern time in the mornings. Clear written English is a must, as the team works across time zones.

Essential duties and responsibilities

• Maintain on-call schedules, runbooks and escalation policies in PagerDuty or Opsgenie.
• Manage Kubernetes clusters, node pools and autoscaling.
• Lead incident response as incident commander and run blameless postmortems.
• Improve observability with Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Tempo or Datadog.
• Run capacity planning and load tests with k6, Locust or Gatling.

Minimum qualifications

• 5-7 years in SRE, production engineering or infrastructure roles.
• Experience participating in and leading on-call rotations.
• Strong programming skills in Go, Python or Java.
• Understanding of distributed systems: consensus, replication, partitioning, backpressure.
• Hands-on with metrics, logging and tracing systems.
• Infrastructure as code with Terraform or similar.

Benefits

Starting pay: $197,000 - $260,000/year, depending on experience and certifications.

• Two weeks of paid leave at year end.
• Public holidays observed per your country.
• Performance bonus.
• Annual learning budget.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Send us your resume. No cover letter needed.

Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Galestead Data Pty Ltd.