Site Reliability Engineer

More than 300 employees work on the product, from search ranking to fraud detection. Advertising, subscriptions and transaction fees each bring in a significant share of revenue.

Job summary

Canalloft Media's Observability team owns uptime for services that customers depend on around the clock. You'll split time between engineering work and operational load. You can work from home anywhere in Sri Lanka. We have no office requirement. Normal business hours, Monday to Friday, with some flexibility. You will need a reliable internet connection and a quiet place to work.

Responsibilities

• Lead incident response as incident commander and run blameless postmortems
• Build and tune alerting so pages are actionable and rare
• Reduce toil by measuring it and automating the worst offenders
• Run capacity planning and load tests with k6, Locust or Gatling
• Tune Linux kernel, network and JVM settings when performance requires it

Required qualifications

• Infrastructure as code with Terraform or similar
• Strong programming skills in Go, Python or Java
• Production experience with Kubernetes and a major cloud provider
• Hands-on with metrics, logging and tracing systems
• Deep Linux knowledge, including systemd, networking and tools like strace and tcpdump
• Working knowledge of TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP and load balancing

Preferred qualifications

• Running PostgreSQL, Cassandra, Kafka or Elasticsearch at scale
• EBPF-based tooling
• Contributions to open source observability projects
• Multi-region or active-active architecture

Compensation and benefits

• Medical insurance for you and your family
• Company laptop
• Learning budget
• EPF and ETF contributions
• Flexible hours

Start: Flexible.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Canalloft Media (Pvt) Ltd.