Site Reliability Engineer II - Storage - Remote

We run a marketplace with over 300,000 active sellers and fulfillment centres in four regions. Since 1992, the company has expanded from listings into payments, shipping and seller financing.

The position

Capstanline HQ's Production Engineering team owns uptime for services that customers depend on around the clock. You'll split time between engineering work and operational load. Contract role, full-time hours, paid in USD at the end of each month. You will need at least 3 hours of overlap with US Pacific time. We use Slack, Notion and Google Meet. Cameras on for team calls.

Your responsibilities

• Improve observability with Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Tempo or Datadog
• Harden databases and caches with replication, backups and restore drills
• Plan and run game days and chaos experiments
• Build and tune alerting so pages are actionable and rare
• Tune Linux kernel, network and JVM settings when performance requires it
• Run capacity planning and load tests with k6, Locust or Gatling
• Reduce toil by measuring it and automating the worst offenders
• Review architecture proposals for reliability risks before launch

Minimum qualifications

• 2-4 years in SRE, production engineering or infrastructure roles
• 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
• Working knowledge of TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP and load balancing
• Infrastructure as code with Terraform or similar

Nice to have

• Contributions to open source observability projects
• OpenTelemetry instrumentation
• CKA or CKS certification

Benefits

• Paid in USD
• Monthly internet allowance

Duration: 3 months. Start: Within 30 days.

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