Site Reliability Engineer

Role overview:

Rutledge Digital'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. The company is based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. The team is distributed across several countries. This is a full-time remote role. We use an employer of record in the US, so you get a proper employment contract, not a freelance agreement. Working hours overlap with Central European Time. You will need a reliable internet connection and a quiet place to work.

Duties:

• Reduce toil by measuring it and automating the worst offenders
• Tune Linux kernel, network and JVM settings when performance requires it
• Run capacity planning and load tests with k6, Locust or Gatling
• Build and tune alerting so pages are actionable and rare

You'll need:

• Understanding of distributed systems: consensus, replication, partitioning, backpressure
• Strong programming skills in Go, Python or Java
• Working knowledge of TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP and load balancing
• Production experience with Kubernetes and a major cloud provider
• Clear writing for postmortems and runbooks
• Infrastructure as code with Terraform or similar

Benefits:

Rate: $143,000 - $176,000 per year

• 20 days paid time off
• Paid parental leave
• Paid sick days
• Home office setup budget
• Company laptop

About the company:

More than 9,000 organizations use our HR and payroll suite, from regional hospitals to school districts. Annual releases gave way to two-week sprints years ago, and the platform now handles over 200 million API calls a day.

EOE. We participate in E-Verify.

This position requires a background check.

Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Rutledge Digital B.V..