Site Reliability Engineer II

More than 980 employees work on the product, from search ranking to fraud detection. White Apps operates consumer websites and apps used by tens of millions of people each month. Core hours are 10 to 3, and the rest of the day is flexible.

Job 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. Remote, open to candidates across Canada. You can set your own hours around a daily morning check-in.

What you'll do:

• Define SLIs and SLOs with service owners and track error budgets.
• Plan and run game days and chaos experiments.
• Build and tune alerting so pages are actionable and rare.
• Manage Kubernetes clusters, node pools and autoscaling.
• Tune Linux kernel, network and JVM settings when performance requires it.
• Reduce toil by measuring it and automating the worst offenders.

Required qualifications:

• 3+ years in SRE, production engineering or infrastructure roles.
• Understanding of distributed systems: consensus, replication, partitioning, backpressure.
• Deep Linux knowledge, including systemd, networking and tools like strace and tcpdump.
• Infrastructure as code with Terraform or similar.
• Experience participating in and leading on-call rotations.
• Working knowledge of TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP and load balancing.
• Clear writing for postmortems and runbooks.

Preferred qualifications:

• EBPF-based tooling.
• Contributions to open source observability projects.
• CKA or CKS certification.

Why work with us:

• Health spending account.
• Group RRSP with employer matching.
• Parental leave top-up.
• Home office allowance.

Start: Immediately.

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