Site Reliability Engineer, Darktrace
AI cybersecurity solutions
Open for applications
AI cybersecurity solutions
1001+ employees
Open for applications
1001+ employees
Company mission
To free the world from cyber disruption.
Role
Who you are
- Proven experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or infrastructure engineering
- Deep expertise in at least one of the following areas:
- Observability & monitoring (metrics, logging, distributed tracing)
- Performance engineering & capacity planning
- Data infrastructure reliability (databases, streaming, pipelines)
- Security-focused SRE (hardening, compliance automation, secrets management)
- Network reliability & traffic management
- Strong programming skills (e.g. Go, Python, or similar)
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) and Kubernetes
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts clearly
- Self-driven with the ability to identify and prioritise high-impact work independently
Desirable
- Experience building internal developer platforms or tooling
- Contributions to open-source, technical blogs, or public speaking
- Experience working in regulated environments
- Familiarity with SLO frameworks and error budget management
- Relevant certifications in your specialist domain
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to bring deep expertise in a key reliability domain and help shape the future of our platform reliability strategy
- SRE sits at the heart of our operational trifecta alongside Platform Engineering and DevSecOps
- In this role, you’ll act as the go-to authority in your area of specialism, working across teams to embed best practices, solve complex reliability challenges, and improve system resilience at scale
- Unlike a generalist SRE, this role focuses on a core domain of expertise—such as observability, performance engineering, data infrastructure reliability, security-focused SRE, or network reliability—while influencing reliability standards across the wider engineering organisation
- Domain Expertise & Strategy:
- Act as the subject matter expert in your chosen reliability domain
- Define and implement standards, frameworks, and best practices across SRE, Platform Engineering, and DevSecOps
- Stay current with industry trends and bring innovative ideas into the organisation
- Engineering & Delivery:
- Design and implement solutions to complex, cross-cutting reliability challenges
- Build tooling, automation, and frameworks to improve system resilience and scalability
- Lead deep-dive investigations into systemic issues and drive long-term fixes
- Collaboration & Platform Integration:
- Partner with Platform Engineering to ensure your domain is embedded within the internal developer platform
- Collaborate with DevSecOps to integrate security, compliance, and resilience practices
- Contribute to cross-team initiatives that improve reliability across the stack
- Incident & Operational Excellence:
- Play a key role in incident response, particularly within your specialism
- Contribute to on-call rotations and continuous improvement of operational processes
- Develop runbooks, documentation, and training materials to support teams
- Success Measures:
- Improved reliability and performance within your domain of specialism
- Adoption of best practices across SRE, Platform Engineering, and DevSecOps
- Reduction in incidents and faster resolution times
- Scalable, well-integrated solutions within the internal platform
- Strong collaboration across teams and measurable improvements in operational maturity
- Shape reliability strategy in a modern, cloud-native engineering environment
- Work on complex, high-impact systems at scale
- Collaborate with expert teams across Platform Engineering and DevSecOps
- Take ownership of a domain and drive meaningful, organisation-wide impact
Our take
With the rise of sophisticated cyberattacks, the need for cutting-edge defence mechanisms has never been more critical. Darktrace addresses this challenge by leveraging AI-enabled threat detection technology, enabling organisations to swiftly identify and respond to abnormal network activity.
By utilising machine learning algorithms, Darktrace allows businesses to combat a wide range of cyber threats, from data breaches to insider attacks. This safeguards their digital assets and helps them maintain operational resilience.
The company's 2024 acquisition by private equity giant Thoma Bravo marks a significant milestone in its journey. The acquisition provides Darktrace with access to a strong financial partner and deep software sector expertise, positioning it to further enhance its capabilities as a leading AI cybersecurity business.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Sep 2018
$50m
SERIES E
Jul 2017
$75m
SERIES D
Total funding: $230.5m
Company benefits
- 23 days paid holiday plus UK bank holidays, increasing to 25 days after two years’ service
- Additional birthday day off
- Salary Sacrifice pension scheme with 4% employer contribution and minimum 5% employee contribution
- Optional BUPA private medical insurance for you and your immediate family
- Life assurance with a benefit of 4x your annual basic salary
- Employee Assistance Programme offering both on-line and telephone support and resources to you and your family
- Cycle to work scheme
- Active social and charity initiatives including our matched charitable giving scheme and employee recognition scheme
Company HQ
Cambridge, UK
Leadership
Jack Stockdale
(CTO)Co-founded Darktrace in 2013 and has served as the CTO since.
Edward Jennings
(President & CEO)Previously CEO of QuickBase, COO Mimecast and was the Chief Marketing Officer at Veracode.
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