Site Reliability Engineer I - Remote

Since 2020, the company has expanded from listings into payments, shipping and seller financing.

OVERVIEW:

The Site Reliability Engineer I - Remote will define SLOs with product teams, improve alerting and help lead incidents when they happen. Skiffmill HQ's SRE team owns uptime for services that customers depend on around the clock. You'll split time between engineering work and operational load.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Build and tune alerting so pages are actionable and rare
• Run capacity planning and load tests with k6, Locust or Gatling
• Reduce toil by measuring it and automating the worst offenders
• Write tooling in Go or Python to automate failover, scaling and routine operations
• Improve observability with Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Tempo or Datadog
• Manage Kubernetes clusters, node pools and autoscaling
• Plan and run game days and chaos experiments

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• 1-2 years in SRE, production engineering or infrastructure roles
• Strong programming skills in Go, Python or Java
• Experience participating in and leading on-call rotations
• Understanding of distributed systems: consensus, replication, partitioning, backpressure
• Infrastructure as code with Terraform or similar
• Clear writing for postmortems and runbooks

Salary: R51,000-R68,000 a month

PAY AND BENEFITS:

• Medical aid contribution
• Provident fund
• Data allowance

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

Start: Immediately.

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