Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Semios
CA$120-140k
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Data analytics platform for farmers
Job no longer available
Data analytics platform for farmers
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
CA$120-140k
More information about location
101-200 employees
Company mission
To simplify the grower's experience, leveraging big data analytics and machine learning to help them mitigate crop risk so they can focus on growing more food, more sustainably.
Role
Who you are
- You’re driven by purpose and motivated by work that matters
- You’re looking for more than a role, you want to be part of a growing, forward-thinking company solving real-world challenges to improve how farming works, today and for the future
- Have good knowledge of Linux and bash or similar
- Be versed in the delivery of a SaaS product on AWS, GCP, or Azure
- Have strong programming skills (Ruby, Python, Go, etc.)
- Be competent with Terraform or similar Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools
- Have experience with Docker, Kubernetes, EKS, or similar technologies
- Have experience with CI/CD pipelines on Buildkite or similar platforms
- Be familiar with building delivery pipelines with Buildkite or similar
- Have strong version control skills with Git
- Be experienced with increasing monitoring and observability using Datadog or similar tools (New Relic, Splunk, etc.)
- Have the desire to document and/or automate to reduce repetitive tasks
- Enjoy delivering quickly and iterating fast
- 5+ years of relevant experience in DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure engineering roles
- At least 2–3 years in a senior or lead capacity, with demonstrated ownership of critical systems and mentoring responsibilities
- Hands-on experience with modern cloud environments (AWS, GCP, or Azure), including deployment, scaling, monitoring, and cost optimization of SaaS applications
- Proven experience implementing and managing observability stacks (e.g., Datadog, Prometheus, New Relic, Splunk) and driving improvements to SLIs/SLOs
- Experience in incident management, including participation in on-call rotations and leading post-incident reviews with a focus on continuous improvement
- At Semios Group, we value the full range of experience and perspectives people bring—not just what’s listed in a job description. If your background is a close match, we encourage you to apply
What the job involves
- As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), you will play a key role in ensuring the scalability, reliability, and performance of our infrastructure and services
- Operating within a high-performing engineering team, this role bridges the gap between development and operations, with a strong focus on automation, observability, and resilience
- You will use your technical expertise and leadership skills to drive improvements across systems and processes, ensuring we deliver high-quality, reliable products to our customers
- This is a hands-on role where your impact will be felt across both technical execution and team development
- You will be part of a team operating across time zones and global regions
- Leadership & Collaboration:
- Lead the delivery of infrastructure projects
- Plan and perform higher-risk maintenance
- Contribute to resolving incidents and participate in an on-call roster
- Work with product and software development colleagues to improve the resiliency and reliability of our products
- Mentor team members in all aspects of SRE work
- Manage your productivity and workload in a work-from-home environment
- System Reliability & Performance:
- Use a data-driven approach to identify changes to the product architecture to improve reliability, performance, and availability
- Fully understand production environments and the end-to-end delivery process
- Identify parts of the system that do not scale and drive solutions for these problem areas
- Maintain and improve Service Level Indicators (SLI) that align with availability and performance targets
- Build quality into the team's work by encouraging refactoring, testing, and breaking up the team’s work into small, releasable pieces
Our take
Climate change is rapidly delivering new challenges to the agriculture industry. Farmers are facing increasing volatility in the climate, leading to unpredictable weather patterns, making growing conditions challenging.
Semios is addressing this issue with its ‘Farming-as-a-service’ platform. Having been one of the first major players in the space, Semios’s service is set apart by its integrated end-to-end solution that addresses the gamut of farmers’ crop production requirements.
In that same vein, the successful startup is continually expanding and refining its product portfolio with acquisitions and new integrations of 3rd party agricultural solutions into its crop management platform. Building on its current success, the company can only look forward to impressive growth as farmers increasingly view their devices as mission-critical to satisfactory yields.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-13% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Sep 2021
$100m
LATE VC
Feb 2020
$75m
LATE VC
Total funding: $212.3m
Company benefits
- Sleep better knowing you're making the world a better place through more sustainable food production
- Opportunity to contribute and make an impact by working on meaningful projects
- Work with a team that values fun, laughter, and each other in collaborative and casual work environment
- Multiple office locations, convenient via transit and bike paths
- Flexible hybrid working environment and hours
Company HQ
Mount Pleasant, Vancouver, BC
Leadership
Dr. Michael Gilbert
(Founder & Director of the Board)Michael is a natural product synthetic chemist with a PhD from University of British Columbia and a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Vienna. They have 25 years of experience in agtech and biotech R&D and production.
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