Senior Systems Reliability Engineer at Sendy Limited

About The Role:

Site Reliability Engineers build and operate the platform on which Sendy’s applications run.  SREs have built up their knowledge working in different environments and come from a variety of technical backgrounds. The common denominator across all our reliability engineers  include a passion for scalability, operational excellence and automation..

The Senior SRE will lead and develop a team of SREs that are responsible for the Sendy’s production platform and build the tools for all teams to understand and interact with it.

What you will do:

• Mentor, grow, and empower the team by giving them the skills, confidence and motivation to make decisions
• Participate in deep technical design discussions within the team, and across partner teams, and ensure that we’re building high quality systems
• Partner with other Engineering Leads across Sendy to achieve reliability outcomes for their services
• Building software to help engineering and support teams
• Fixing support escalation issues
• Optimizing on-call rotations and processes
• Documenting “tribal” knowledge
• Conducting post-incident reviews

What you should have:

• Linux systems administration experience
• Five years Site Reliability Engineering experience
• Intermediate level software development skills in Python, Go or SQL
• Strong skills in network services, including DNS, TLS/SSL and HTTP
• Network fundamentals DHCP, ARP, subnetting, routing, firewalls
• Experience with the Linux kernel and Linux software packaging
• Performance analysis and debugging with tools like perf, sar, strace, dtrace
• Configuration management systems such as Saltstack, Chef, Puppet or Ansible
• Load balancing and reverse proxies such as Nginx, Varnish, HAProxy, Apache
• SQL databases (Postgres or MySQL)
• Time series databases (OpenTSDB, Graphite, Prometheus, Grafana)
• Key/Value stores (Redis, KyotoTycoon, Cassandra, LevelDB)
• Internetworking and BGP.
• Experience leading and hiring a team that builds and runs tools and platforms
• Ability to work effectively with distinct personalities and across all levels in an organization. 
• Must be a self-starter and highly organized.
• Ability to discern and apply knowledge 
• Top level interpersonal and cross-cultural skills 
• Ability to work well with people at all levels in the organization.

Why you should  work at Sendy:

• We are building a world-class design organization and you’ll get to work with and learn from the team with a wealth of expertise and experience.
• You get a lot of autonomy and flexibility to build a style of working that is optimal for you.
• Other office perks
  • Flexibility to work remotely.
  • Data Allowance.
  • Office lunch, also available to remotely.
  • Comprehensive health insurance – Inpatient / Outpatient / Dental / Optical.
  • Flexible vacation.
  • All risk Insurance.
  • Opportunity for company stock options.