Site Reliability Engineer II

Advertising, subscriptions and transaction fees each bring in a significant share of revenue. Traffic during holiday peaks can reach ten times normal levels, and the platform is built for it. We started in 1996 and have grown to about 109,600 people.

Canalcross is hiring a Site Reliability Engineer II to work remotely from the UAE. Our services run on Kubernetes across two cloud regions. This hire will help us get better at capacity planning and failover. This is a full-time remote role. We use an employer of record in the UAE, so you get a proper employment contract, not a freelance agreement. Core hours are 10:00 to 15:00 CET.

Duties

• Maintain on-call schedules, runbooks and escalation policies in PagerDuty or Opsgenie.
• Manage Kubernetes clusters, node pools and autoscaling.
• Write tooling in Go or Python to automate failover, scaling and routine operations.
• Build and tune alerting so pages are actionable and rare.
• Harden databases and caches with replication, backups and restore drills.
• Run capacity planning and load tests with k6, Locust or Gatling.
• Reduce toil by measuring it and automating the worst offenders.
• Improve observability with Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Tempo or Datadog.

Skills and experience

• 3+ years in SRE, production engineering or infrastructure roles.
• Production experience with Kubernetes and a major cloud provider.
• Hands-on with metrics, logging and tracing systems.
• Clear writing for postmortems and runbooks.

Why work with us

• Health insurance through our employer-of-record partner.
• Paid sick days.
• Annual team retreat.
• Performance bonus.

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

Start: Flexible.

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