Site Reliability Engineer, Speakap
Employee experience platform for frontline workers
Job no longer available
Employee experience platform for frontline workers
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
21-100 employees
Company mission
To keep building, solving, and redefining what it means to work as one.
Role
Who you are
- You bring 6+ years of hands-on experience managing and scaling cloud infrastructure, with a proven track record of building secure, resilient systems
- You likely hold a degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, and have continued to grow through real-world challenges, continuous learning, and collaboration
- Pragmatic & precise – You strike the right balance between speed and stability. You know when to move fast to unblock teams and when to slow down to build long-term reliability and technical excellence
- Clear communicator & trusted collaborator – You thrive in cross-functional environments, working closely with developers, product managers, and security teams to solve problems and deliver solutions
- Developer-aware mindset – You understand the pressures and workflows of modern engineering teams and aim to make their lives easier through automation, stability, and streamlined infrastructure
- Team-oriented & endlessly curious – You’re generous with your knowledge, open to feedback, and always eager to learn, adapt, and help others grow
- You’re not just an infrastructure expert — you’re a reliable partner who cares about building great systems and a great team
- Networking & Security: Deep understanding of networking protocols (OSI model), firewalls, intrusion detection, and overall cloud security best practices
- Load balancing: Skilled in deploying, configuring, and optimizing load balancing solutions to enhance the performance and scalability of web applications
- Cloud & Systems: Strong experience with AWS (EC2, RDS, VPC, EKS, Elasticache, CloudWatch) and Linux/UNIX environments at scale. Strong Linux/UNIX background, with experience operating systems at medium to large scale
- Infrastructure & Automation: Proficient with infrastructure-as-code and configuration tools like Terraform, Ansible, and Puppet; strong scripting and automation mindset
- Monitoring & Performance: Skilled in monitoring production systems, diagnosing performance issues, and tuning web apps and databases for reliability and scale
- Data & Containers: Experience with containerization (Docker), managing replicated datasets, and ensuring database availability, integrity, and performance
What the job involves
- In this role, you’ll play a key part in keeping our platform secure, stable and high-performing
- You’ll be joining a small, lean team dedicated to security, automation, uptime, and optimizing the performance of our cloud-based infrastructure built on Linux and AWS-managed services
- As a valued team member, you’ll have the opportunity to design, share, and implement your ideas and solutions, helping shape how we scale and evolve our infrastructure
- Monitor, maintain, and continuously improve existing infrastructure
- Proactively identify and address security risks, helping to keep our platform safe and compliant
- Collaborate with and support other teams by answering questions, resolving infrastructure-related issues, and enabling smooth development workflows
- Design and build new infrastructure components to support growing product and engineering needs, with a focus on automation and best practices
Our take
Consistent communication between frontline and office workforces is essential for an enterprise to thrive, and digital tools and platforms are often used to make this happen. However, when attempting to provide tools for communication, task management, onboarding and more, software stacks quickly become convoluted, fragmented, and frustrating.
Speakap develops a digital workplace for frontline and office workers to collaborate on, particularly focussing on integrating all essential tools within the same place in the form of a social media platform. The platform provides features for many scenarios such as task management, scheduling and onboarding, but also facilitates integration with existing tools such as Salesforce, Office 365 and Workday.
Whilst the concept of creating a digital workplace to increase communication and engagement within enterprise workforces is nothing new, Speakap has taken a unique stance by focussing on accessibility. By combining the social media presentation of the platform with the all-in-one toolkit and external tool integration, the company has provided an end-to-end SaaS which ensures all scenarios can be handled within the same place, by any employee.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Mar 2018
$8.7m
SERIES B
Sep 2014
$0.7m
ANGEL
Total funding: $11.9m
Company benefits
- 26 Days of Paid Holidays
- Work Abroad Policy: Up to 90 days per year (subject to approval)
- Pension Scheme Support
- Flexible Working Hours
- Possibility to Get Stock Appreciation Rights (after 1 Year of Employment)
- Career Development Programs
- Team Outings & Company Events
- Complimentary Office Lunches and Snacks
- Office Commuting Allowance: NS Business Card or Travel Reimbursemenet
- Hybrid Work Model: Split Between Home and Office
- Focus Area in the Office
- New Hire Home Office Budget
- Referral Program Incentives
- Pet-Friendly Office Space
Company HQ
Midtown West, New York, NY
Leadership
Patrick van der Mijl
(Founder & CEO)Graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Management, Economics, and Law from the University of Applied Sciences.
Erwin van der Vlist
(Co-Founder)Prior to co-founding Speakap in 2011, Erwin was a Business Analyst for Strategy & Operations at Deloitte & Touche. They graduated from the VU Amsterdam with a MSc in Business Administration Finance.
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