Site Reliability Engineer, Kubernetes

Annual releases gave way to two-week sprints years ago, and the platform now handles over 200 million API calls a day. Our engineering group is split into roughly 60 product teams, each owning its services end to end, with on-call shared across time zones.

The position:

The Site Reliability Engineer, Kubernetes will define SLOs with product teams, improve alerting and help lead incidents when they happen. On site, Rome.

Day to day:

• Plan and run game days and chaos experiments
• Reduce toil by measuring it and automating the worst offenders
• Manage Kubernetes clusters, node pools and autoscaling
• Improve observability with Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Tempo or Datadog
• Define SLIs and SLOs with service owners and track error budgets
• Run capacity planning and load tests with k6, Locust or Gatling
• Review architecture proposals for reliability risks before launch
• Tune Linux kernel, network and JVM settings when performance requires it

Qualifications:

• 3+ years in SRE, production engineering or infrastructure roles
• Hands-on with metrics, logging and tracing systems
• Understanding of distributed systems: consensus, replication, partitioning, backpressure

Compensation and benefits:

Compensation: €49,000-€66,000 annually

• Private health insurance
• Meal vouchers
• Flexible start and finish times
• Life insurance
• Training budget

We review applications as they come in.

Start: Within 30 days.

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