Site Reliability Software Engineer at Superbalist.com

We are looking for a Site Reliability Software Engineer to work on our SRE team, who has initiative and is comfortable taking ownership over assigned projects while working collaboratively in a team environment. The engineer will need to work with technical colleagues and must be comfortable gathering and organizing information into a sensible action plan.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES/RESPONSIBILITIES

• Design, develop and test code written in Golang, Bash and Python
• Building tooling around DevOps and Software Engineering best practices
• Draft technical specifications and briefs
• Monitor latency, performance, efficiency, and change management.
• Passionate about improving resilience and observability of distributed systems
• Perform code reviews
• Maintain and improve code quality
• Write and deploy robust and backward-compatible code

KEY REQUIREMENTS

• Minimum 3 years experience in a DevOps/SRE role or similar 
• Knowledge of CompSci theory (networking, databases, data structures, algorithms, cloud computing, security, code design, distributed systems and testing)
• Version control experience (Git preferred)
• Experience setting up and deploying containerized environments (Docker & Kubernetes preferred)
• Experience in configuring and deploying a wide range of web applications (Django / Flask / Laravel / Express / etc)
• Experience in configuring and deploying CI/CD tools and pipelines (Jenkins preferred)
• Experience working in a Mac/Linux environment
• Experience with metrics & monitoring systems (Prometheus / Grafana / NewRelic / ElasticAPM / etc)
• Proficiency in Bash scripting and Python

NICE TO HAVE

• B.Sc in Computer Science, Electrical (& Computer) Engineering or a related field
• Service and event-driven architectures experience (PubSub)
• Experience with e-commerce based applications
• Google Cloud experience (Compute Engine / Kubernetes Engine / App Engine / BigQuery / CloudSQL / etc)
• Experience working with caching systems such as Varnish, Redis, Memcached, etc
• Relational Database systems experience (MySQL / PostgreSQL preferred)
• Proficiency in Golang

COMPETENCIES

• Strong problem solving and analytical skills
• Strong drive for results
• Be comfortable working within a team
• Good communication skills
• Build and maintain relationships