Site Reliability Engineer, Stacklok
Salary not provided
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
Python
Go
Terraform
Athena
Azure
Junior, Mid and Senior level
London
3 days a week in office (Mark Square, London)
Open source security technologies
Be an early applicant
Open source security technologies
21-100 employees
B2BSecurityEnterpriseSupply ChainSaaSDevOpsCloud Computing
Be an early applicant
Salary not provided
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
Python
Go
Terraform
Athena
Azure
Junior, Mid and Senior level
London
3 days a week in office (Mark Square, London)
21-100 employees
B2BSecurityEnterpriseSupply ChainSaaSDevOpsCloud Computing
Company mission
To make it easier to securely develop software.
Role
Who you are
- Experience in Site Reliability Engineering supporting an enterprise SaaS service with evidence of maintaining high availability and performance in production environments
- Proficient in programming languages, particularly Go and Python, demonstrating the ability to write clean, efficient, and maintainable code
- Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles, with proficiency in automation tools like Terraform for environment provisioning and configuration management
- Experience with a major cloud provider (AWS, Azure, Google), preferably AWS
- Understanding of cloud-native application deployment and management using technologies like Docker and Kubernetes with exposure to scaling and recovery strategies
- Experience in automating incident response processes using platforms such as PagerDuty to improve response times and incident management efficiency
- Proficient in log aggregation and analysis tools such as AWS Athena and Cloudwatch enabling thorough performance reviews and proactive issue identification
- Exposure to defining and implementing Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and key performance indicators (KPIs) to drive service quality and operational excellence
- Knowledge of security best practices in site reliability, with an emphasis on operational security measures and maintaining a secure software supply chain
- Impact-Driven and Collaborative: Track record of delivering solutions that drive business outcomes; excellent written and verbal communication skills for engaging diverse stakeholders. Committed to fostering growth and continuous improvement within teams
- Versatile and Self-Starting: Adaptable in dynamic, startup environments, comfortable in varied roles—from individual contributor to conference presenter—and skilled at making technical topics accessible to broad audiences
What the job involves
- Stacklok Cloud is a comprehensive security platform that combines open source package intelligence with a policy platform built on the open source project, Minder, allowing developers to securely consume open source software while enabling security teams to effectively manage and maintain a robust security posture across the entire software supply chain
- As Stacklok Cloud is delivered to major companies across the world, ensuring its scalability, security, performance, and reliability is essential
- We’re seeking a Site Reliability Engineer II to contribute to initiatives within a product team, focusing on automation, monitoring, configuration management, continuous delivery, and incident response
- This role involves applying both SRE and software engineering expertise to ship new features and serve as a resource for best practices in reliability, performance metrics, and system resilience
- Additionally, participation in Stacklok's SRE guild will be integral, collaborating with peers to drive consistent practices in automation, observability, and reliability across all products, fostering a seamless and high-performing SaaS platform
- Join our team of exceptionally talented engineers and become part of a groundbreaking field that tackles critical challenges for developers and the OSS community
- Contribute to an open source strategy that focuses on building and expanding an ecosystem for diverse OSS tools, and help shape the future of open source development with innovative and impactful work
- Success In The Role: 6-12 Months Expectations
- Acclimatize to the Team: Familiarize yourself with our engineering processes. Build connections with team members, immerse yourself in our company culture, understand our virtues, and learn the way we work and collaborate. Solid Understanding of Our Products and Services: Gain a solid understanding of Stacklok Cloud products and services, our vision of the platform as well as short and long-term goals to align your contributions to our objectives
- Deep Dive Into Stacklok Cloud Architecture: Become comfortable with the current infrastructure-as-code environment using Terraform to deploy SaaS software to Kubernetes on AWS
- Proficiency in Go and Python: Develop strong proficiency in Go, our primary programming language, focusing on best practices, idiomatic design patterns, and effective error handling, and unit testing. Demonstrate strong foundational knowledge of Python, specifically in lavering its capabilities for automation, scripting, and building internal tools
- Hybrid Contribution: Be an integral part of our product engineering team, advancing the reliability and operational efficiency of our systems. With a primary focus on platform functionalities, you’ll also have opportunities to make direct contributions to feature development, enhancing the capabilities of our products
- Technical Guidance and Documentation: Support production infrastructure by contributing to and maintaining comprehensive documentation, including playbooks and architectural diagrams, to ensure team alignment
- Shape The Future of Stacklok Cloud: As a site reliability engineer, you’ll play a key role in supporting and enhancing our platform’s reliability and performance. Your focus will include regular platform upgrades and the instrumentation and monitoring of production systems. You’ll help advance our platform and shape strategies for the future of software supply chain security
- Embrace an Automate Everything Mindset: Contribute to a culture of automation by streamlining operational tasks and enhancing efficiency across the environment. You’ll support automation initiatives for incident management tooling, application autoscaling, and recovery processes to ensure resilient systems that adapt to changing demands. Collaborating with a skilled team, you’ll help automate playbooks, continuous delivery pipelines, and GitHub Terraform processes, driving improvements in service delivery and incident response
- Monitor and Improve Service Performance: Support end-to-end monitoring of service KPIs to drive improvements and maintain optimal performance. You’ll regularly review logs and performance metrics, using shared tools and incident response automations to enhance system reliability. With an analytical mindset, you’ll contribute to identifying areas for KPI improvement, helping us consistently meet and exceed our performance goals
- Learn and Grow with Mentorship Opportunities: Work alongside experienced engineers who will support your professional growth and skill development. By collaborating in a culture of empathy, curiosity, and psychological safety, you’ll deepen your understanding of infrastructure and site reliability best practices. Engaging in code reviews and team discussions will allow you to refine your skills, share insights, and contribute to a strong, capable team. This role offers a clear path for growth, helping you build toward new responsibilities and technical expertise
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Developers looking to actively work with open-source software face several barriers to entry in terms of accessing, integrating, and ultimately utilizing open-source technologies. In a bid to lower such barriers, Stacklok harnesses the power of open-source projects - like sigstore - to deliver enterprise-grade solutions to developers.
Software supply chain security is an absolute priority across software ecosystems, thus the necessity for a supply chain ledger with observability and transparency is paramount to building trust within the vast open-source ecosystem.
The experience of Stacklok’s Co-Founders – who have founded projects such as Kubernetes, sigstore, and Heptio (acquired by VMware) – and its impressive backing have the recently launched project well set to see accelerated growth and adoption.
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Top investors
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Company
Funding (1 round)
May 2023
$17.5m
SERIES A
Total funding: $17.5m
Company benefits
- Flexible workplace: We offer fully remote and in-office positions, giving you the option to work from home full-time or for part of your week
- Healthcare packages: We offer medical, dental, and vision plans, including HSA options and coverage for dependents
- Flexible time off: Take time off to recharge or recover when you need it
- Non-linear workday: Piano recitals, doctor appointments, moving days—work around personal and family commitments
- Paid parental leave: We offer paid leave to recover and bond with your child
- Company equity: We offer compensation packages, so that you can benefit from our shared success
- Company holidays: Because we’re a global team, we dedicate time each year for everyone in the company to rest and recover
- Team offsites: We bring our global team together at team offsites for in-person collaboration
Company values
- We stand together: We seek out the strengths in ourselves and one another and rely on those strengths to balance our mutual shortcomings
- We are moved by our work: We believe that the good work we do has the potential to make the world a fundamentally safer place for our loved ones
- We are humble but relentless: When we succeed we look out and see the contributions of others
- We find truth in data: We are curious by nature and believe in the power of experimentation and incremental improvement
Company HQ
Central Business District, Seattle, WA
Articles
Leadership
Craig McLuckie
(CEO)Founder & former CEO of Heptio. Previously worked as VP of R&D at VMware, Group/Lead Product Manager at Google, Lead Program Manager at Microsoft, and Entrepreneur in Residence at Accel.
Luke Hinds
(CTO)sigstore Project Founder, OpenSSF Board Member, and Kubernetes Security Response Team member at CNCF. Former Distinguished Engineer at Red Hat.
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