Senior/Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Fonoa
Tax automation for the internet economy
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Tax automation for the internet economy
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
101-200 employees
Company mission
To eliminate the manual work when dealing with taxes on online transactions.
Role
Who you are
- We are looking for someone who thrives in fast-moving environments, enjoys solving operational and systems challenges at scale, and is excited about building infrastructure that stays reliable, simple, and delightfully boring as the company grows
- You are fully proficient in English. Written and spoken, as we are a bunch from around the world, and we work in English
- You communicate effectively and asynchronously
- You have an automation mindset focused on streamlining daily operations
- You manage infrastructures with code; it doesn't exist if it's not in git
- You have programming skills in at least one language, or can learn more if the opportunity arises
- You strongly favour simplicity over complexity
- You solve problems with other people; you are a team player, not a hero. We share the knowledge (and sometimes the pain)
- You prefer data to opinions when making decisions. And are ok with finding the data yourself when it's missing
- You have a strong sense of ownership, care about what you build, and build the right thing that serves your customers
- You are a builder at heart. You like the opportunity to have tons of exposure, make things work for a company long-term, and have an entrepreneurial attitude for anything that comes your way
- You are comfortable with changes in priorities, goals, and deadlines. You see this more as an opportunity than a hurdle. You are also comfortable challenging the status quo and pushing for change yourself
- If you don’t think you have the full experience we’re looking for, but you could be a fit and are willing to learn, do apply anyway! We are building a diverse and inclusive team
What the job involves
- As Fonoa continues to scale globally, we are looking for an Infrastructure Engineer to help us build and operate a reliable, scalable, and self-service platform that enables engineering teams to move fast with confidence
- This role sits at the core of how engineering operates at Fonoa. You will work to improve the reliability, observability, scalability, and operational maturity of the systems powering our products, while building tooling and infrastructure that make developers' lives easier across the company
- This is not a traditional “ops” role focused on manual infrastructure maintenance. We are looking for engineers who think in systems, automate relentlessly, and care deeply about developer experience, operational excellence, and long-term maintainability
- You will work closely with product engineering teams to improve platform capabilities, evolve our Kubernetes and cloud environments, strengthen observability and reliability practices, and help teams fully own and operate their services in production
- Continuously iterate on our platform, building self-service tooling and services consumed by internal customers (engineering teams)
- Helping to improve our products' observability, availability, security, and latency, so we can always keep our customers happy
- Participating in an on-call schedule, taking care of the services the team owns
- Defining and continuously improving our SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs as part of our ever-present effort to achieve operational excellence
- Helping all engineering teams adopt site reliability
- What Success Looks Like:
- Help us keep our Kubernetes runtime across cloud providers boring, reliable, and delightfully uneventful, using Terraform, CRDs, and common sense
- Evolve our API gateway layer as product and customer needs grow, ensuring the path between services remains reliable, scalable, and slightly less terrifying
- Automate, operate, and troubleshoot our data storage platforms, so teams can safely spawn and run their own Postgres and Elasticsearch instances without summoning an SRE every time
- Keep our observability platform lean and useful across Grafana, Prometheus, and Datadog, empowering engineers to fully own their services rather than merely stare at dashboards in despair
Salary benchmarks
Our take
It's never been simpler to set up a business online. Tools like Stripe, Intercom, and Twilio have enabled entrepreneurs to sell to millions of consumers and businesses across borders. But managing tax compliance remains a minefield that gets even more intense as companies grow and scale internationally.
Fonoa removes the challenge of managing indirect taxes from the everyday business of digital-native companies, with a suite of plug-and-play products that make up its global tax compliance platform. Since launching in 2018, the company has expanded its product suite heavily and secured big-name clients such as Booking.com, Spotify, Teachable, Uber and Zoom.
With strong funding under its belt, Fonoa has continued to develop towards becoming a fully international player offering services on a global scale. The company is focusing on a full tax stack approach for growth, prioritising technology to suit the digital business models of today. Through this, the company is well-poised to tackle an almost unending market that has catapulted other startups to Unicorn status.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
196% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jul 2022
$60m
SERIES B
Nov 2021
$20.5m
SERIES A
Total funding: $85m
Company benefits
- Stake in the company: You'll have equity in Fonoa so when we win, you win.
- 25 days paid time off (PTO):Relax, recharge, and come back ready to conquer the (tax)w world.
- Team offsites: Departments and teams organize their own offsites throughout the year - to collaborate, strategize, and spend time together.
- Lunch on us: Bi-Weekly team lunches: Bond with colleagues in the office or virtually.
- Home office allowance: Want a more comfortable chair? Need a new monitor? Would you like to make your space more inspiring? Create the perfect setup at home.
- FUNoa: Once a year, we bring the entire company together for learning, bonding, and fun in a unique and inspiring location somewhere in the world.
Company HQ
North City, Dublin, Ireland
Leadership
Davor Tremac
(CEO)Prior to Fonoa, Davor was a GM at Uber for Southeastern Europe for 4 years, worked in consulting with McKinsey for a decade, and founded a VC-backed startup, Gourmeo.
Filip Sturman
(Co-Founder & COO)Former CPO of the company. Before Fonoa, was a business operator at Uber, Uber Eats, and Trivago between Croatia, Spain, and Germany.
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