Site Reliability Engineer II

Position summary:

The previous person in this role moved to another team. Our services run on Kubernetes across two cloud regions. This hire will help us get better at capacity planning and failover. Our headquarters is in New York City, and about a third of the team works remotely from other countries. You will join as an independent contractor on a long-term agreement. Payment is monthly in USD. Core hours are 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM US Eastern. Clear written English is a must, as the team works across time zones.

Key responsibilities:

• Plan and run game days and chaos experiments
• Tune Linux kernel, network and JVM settings when performance requires it
• Write tooling in Go or Python to automate failover, scaling and routine operations
• Review architecture proposals for reliability risks before launch
• Improve observability with Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Tempo or Datadog
• Lead incident response as incident commander and run blameless postmortems

Requirements:

• 3+ years in SRE, production engineering or infrastructure roles
• Production experience with Kubernetes and a major cloud provider
• Strong programming skills in Go, Python or Java
• Deep Linux knowledge, including systemd, networking and tools like strace and tcpdump

Perks and benefits:

Salary range: $1,450 to $1,650 monthly

• Long-term engagement
• Paid time off
• Annual rate review
• Paid in USD

A bit about us:

Profitable, no outside investors, and no plans to take any. We grow when customers pay us. Our product started as a side project in 2019 and now has a few hundred paying customers, mostly in New York.

Please submit your CV in English.

Duration: 6 months. Start: Within 30 days.

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