Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Kraken.tech

• Great communication skills, working effectively with developers, product managers and other business stakeholders to understand, design and deliver impactful projects and reliability improvements
• Proficient using AWS; we use a lot of different AWS services and not just the standard few
• Strong Python skills; particularly with Django, the Django ORM and Celery
• Good expertise in multiple of the following areas:
• PostgreSQL, or a similar RDBMS, particularly in Amazon RDS at scale
• Docker and Kubernetes; we use Amazon EKS in production
• Datadog, or a similar logging/monitoring tool
• Messaging queues, event-driven async processing or similar technologies - we use RabbitMQ
• Terraform, or a similar infrastructure-as-code tool
• Experience with a Linux distribution
• Previous experience working in small, highly-autonomous teams
• Studies have shown that some groups of people, like women, are less likely to apply to a role unless they meet 100% of the job requirements
• Whoever you are, if you like one of our jobs, we encourage you to apply as you might just be the candidate we hire

Desirable

• Our Global Platform Engineering Reliability group is responsible for architecting, developing, and maintaining the resilient and scalable infrastructure that power and support our platforms
• As a Site Reliability Engineer within the newly created ‘Product Reliability’ team, you'll be responsible for ensuring the availability, performance, and scalability of the products on our platform
• Your proficiency in supporting products that serve millions of customers will ensure stability and high performance for our brands and clients
• You’ll keep up with best practices in building products for scale
• Your communication skills and attention to detail will be indispensable as you pinpoint areas for enhancement, ensure optimal product performance, and continuously improve our reliability and efficiency
• Teach and support product teams on best practices for reliability, implementation patterns and effective usage of our existing platforms
• Support product teams in improving the performance and availability of their systems
• Be hands-on in code and infrastructure to help product teams with reliability improvements
• Provide comprehensive feedback to the wider Platform group on improvements to be made to core infrastructure based on observations and first-hand experience in the code base
• Support the build-out of proof-of-concept requirements in product teams as needed to evolve application deployment architecture to align with business growth as well as enhance scalability and system resilience
• Collaborate with product teams to support the release of new features and services, ensuring adherence to reliability and performance standards
• Guide product teams in designing systems for resilience and graceful failure under heavy load
• Assist application teams with post-incident tasks and follow-ups, and contribute to the creation and review of post-mortem documentation
• Analyse incident metrics to identify trends and potential improvements, communicating these insights to the product teams
• Help solve interesting and difficult problems. There’s a great opportunity for disruption in the global energy market