Site Reliability Engineer

Founded in 2003, the business writes the billing, metering and customer portal software that small water and electric utilities run on. On-call rotates weekly and pays a flat stipend whether or not the pager goes off.

The role

We need another Site Reliability Engineer to keep our production systems available, measurable and boring. We hire in France through an employer of record, so this is a regular full-time job with local payroll and statutory benefits. Our standups are at 9:00 AM Pacific. Equipment is provided, including a laptop.

In this role you will

• Improve observability with Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Tempo or Datadog.
• Tune Linux kernel, network and JVM settings when performance requires it.
• Lead incident response as incident commander and run blameless postmortems.
• Reduce toil by measuring it and automating the worst offenders.
• Build and tune alerting so pages are actionable and rare.
• Harden databases and caches with replication, backups and restore drills.

Requirements

• 2-4 years in SRE, production engineering or infrastructure roles.
• Working knowledge of TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP and load balancing.
• Understanding of distributed systems: consensus, replication, partitioning, backpressure.

What we offer

Salary: €63,000 - €83,000 per year

• Home office setup budget.
• Public holidays observed per your country.
• Annual salary review.
• Company laptop.

If you are shortlisted, we will reach out to set up a first call.

Please submit your CV in English.

Start: Within 30 days.

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