Site Reliability Engineer II (Networking)

The company

Annual releases gave way to two-week sprints years ago, and the platform now handles over 200 million API calls a day. Headquartered in Dublin since 2013, the company now sells in 40 countries and supports customers in 11 languages.

The Site Reliability Engineer II (Networking) will define SLOs with product teams, improve alerting and help lead incidents when they happen. SRE role with a heavy software component. We expect you to write code that removes toil, not just run playbooks. Remote position. Most of the team is in Dublin, but nobody is required to come in. Hours are flexible, with one short team call each morning. Please make sure you have a quiet place to work and a solid internet connection.

Day to day

• 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.
• Tune Linux kernel, network and JVM settings when performance requires it.
• Build and tune alerting so pages are actionable and rare.
• Review architecture proposals for reliability risks before launch.
• Reduce toil by measuring it and automating the worst offenders.
• Define SLIs and SLOs with service owners and track error budgets.

What you'll need

• Working knowledge of TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP and load balancing.
• Infrastructure as code with Terraform or similar.
• Hands-on with metrics, logging and tracing systems.
• Strong programming skills in Go, Python or Java.
• Deep Linux knowledge, including systemd, networking and tools like strace and tcpdump.
• Understanding of distributed systems: consensus, replication, partitioning, backpressure.

Pay and benefits

Salary range: €101,000 - €128,000 per annum

• Health insurance for you and your family.
• Pension contribution.
• 23 days annual leave plus bank holidays.

Unfortunately we cannot offer visa sponsorship for this role.

Start: Within 30 days.

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