Site Reliability Engineer, Orbital
£82-104k
Offers equity options
1-5 days a week in office
Legal due diligence platform for property transactions
Be an early applicant
Legal due diligence platform for property transactions
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
£82-104k
Offers equity options
1-5 days a week in office
21-100 employees
Company mission
To make property transactions radically more transparent, quick and easy to transact.
Role
Who you are
- You have the experience and technical skills to build a solid foundation:
- 4+ years in a DevOps, SRE, or related role with hands-on experience building and maintaining infrastructure
- Expertise with a major cloud provider (preferably Azure)
- Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools and Kubernetes ecosystem tools, such as Terraform, Kubernetes, and FluxCD
- Solid experience with Docker and Kubernetes for container management
- Knowledge of CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI, CircleCI, GitHub Actions) and experience setting up automated workflows
- Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools like Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack, or DataDog
- Strong scripting skills (Python, Bash, or similar) for automation and tooling
- Software Engineering Experience:
- Minimum of 2 years of professional experience in software engineering, with a focus on Python as a primary programming language
- Proficiency in writing clean, scalable, and efficient Python code, adhering to best practices and design principles
- Python Development Expertise:
- Strong understanding of Python libraries, frameworks, and modules relevant to SRE, such as Flask, Django, or FastAPI for building resilient services and applications
- Familiarity with Python’s async capabilities and experience working with asynchronous programming to optimise system performance
- You’re motivated by ownership and impact:
- You’re ready to take ownership of critical systems and be the go-to person for system reliability
- You enjoy solving complex technical challenges and proactively seek solutions
- You have strong collaboration and communication skills:
- You can work effectively with stakeholders, document processes clearly, and explain technical concepts to non-technical team members
- At Orbital, we’re committed to building a diverse and inclusive team. We especially welcome applications from people who are traditionally underrepresented in tech. Even if you don’t meet every single requirement, or if the right role isn’t listed yet, we’d still love to hear from you
What the job involves
- We’re hiring our second SRE to help scale our platform and reliability efforts. This role offers an exciting opportunity to help design, implement, and manage our infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and production operations from the ground up
- You’ll have autonomy in shaping our tech stack, defining best practices, and building scalable systems that will set the foundation for future engineering growth. If you thrive in startup environments and enjoy the blend of software engineering, operations, and infrastructure, we’d love to hear from you
- Set Up and Manage Infrastructure:
- Design, build, and maintain a robust, cloud-based infrastructure on Azure
- Develop and maintain infrastructure as code (IaC) using tools like Terraform
- Have ownership of our system’s reliability and scalability, laying a strong foundation for our engineering environment
- Deploy and Orchestrate Containers:
- Use k8s and Docker to manage containerised applications, ensuring high availability, scaling, and resource optimisation
- Set up and manage k8s clusters to support reliable and scalable infrastructure
- Develop CI/CD Pipelines:
- Design and implement CI/CD pipelines to automate our build, test, and deployment processes
- Collaborate with development teams to streamline code integration and ensure high-quality releases across the board
- Implement Monitoring and Incident Management:
- Set up proactive monitoring, logging, and alerting systems to detect and resolve issues before they impact users
- Develop and refine incident response protocols and conduct root cause analyses to continuously improve system reliability
- Foster Collaboration and Knowledge Sharing:
- Work closely with cross-functional teams, especially software engineering, to instil and grow a DevOps culture
- Document processes, systems, and configurations to ensure scalability and facilitate knowledge sharing as the team grows
- Security is everyone’s responsibility at Orbital. We ask all team members to follow our security policies, complete regular awareness training, and handle sensitive data with care in line with ISO 27001 standards. Spot something unusual? Reporting risks or incidents quickly helps us maintain the strong culture of security and compliance we all depend on
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Legal reasoning requires smart and experienced law professionals, and collating information and data takes up their valuable time. That's why Orbital has used foundational AI models to build an assistant for law professionals. The company builds SaaS solutions that transform how property professionals work by leveraging cutting-edge Generative AI and LLM technologies.
The company's products aggregate geospatial, property, and legal data from diverse sources to provide an unprecedented view of legal risk attached to properties. This provides real estate lawyers and property professionals with a one-stop-shop for property due diligence, allowing a vastly more transparent and efficient process whilst providing a better quality of service to clients.
Orbital's AI solutions are already used by thousands of lawyers and commercial property professionals across the UK and the US. It plans to grow its presence in the US and scale its team to achieve this objective. There is a huge opportunity to transform the way that property, the world's largest asset class, is transacted and bring it into the 21st century.
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Meet the team
7 people
Kieran Pattison, Senior Customer Success Manager
Our mission
To ensure clients love working with us and see maximum value from their investment. If our customers are successful, everyone wins.Insights
44% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
May 2023
$9.9m
SERIES A
Jul 2020
$4.4m
SEED
Total funding: $15.8m
Company benefits
- Matched pension contributions and equity options
- Flexible working hours and location; access to 30+ Boutique Workplace offices in the UK
- 25 days paid holiday (plus bank holidays)
- Professional equipment and a £1,000 p/a personal learning and development budget
- Cycle-to-work scheme
- All-company off-sites, Deliveroo Wednesdays and team socials
- Generous parental leave and salary sacrifice nursery fee scheme through Yellownest
- Extra day annual leave when you move house
- Generous parental leave and salary sacrifice nursery fee scheme through Yellownest
Company values
- Question or Commit - Embrace debate and move forward
- Power to our People - Stubborn on vision, flexible on approach
- Bold and ambitious - Aim high, challenge the status quo
- Eat that frog! - Take on the hardest, most impactful work first
Company HQ
Farringdon, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Edmond Boulle
(Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer)Prior to co-founding Orbital Witness, Ed worked with high growth startups in the UK aerospace industry. He qualified as a barrister with and holds a law degree from Oxford University.
Will Pearce
(Co-Founder and CEO)Previously Research Analyst - Space Team at London Economics for 4 months and Business Strategy Analyst at Satellite Applications Catapult for 2 years.
People progressing
Naomi joined as Office Manager with varied experience across ops and events. Quickly promoted to Ops Manager, then Chief of Staff, she ensures we have everything needed to reach our ambitious goals.
Aisha, ex-M&A lawyer at Clifford Chance, transitioned to sales at Tessian. At Orbital Witness since 2019, she was promoted to head of BD & CS, now CRO, driving business growth.
People breakdown
35%
65%
Female
Male
Last updated on 11 February 2025
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Orbital
Aisha Tummon (Chief Revenue Officer)
- We are proud to nurture a diverse team and inclusive, caring working environment.
- We value diversity of thought and particularly encourage applications from those who are underrepresented in tech.
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