Site Reliability Engineer, Partly
+ Equity
2+ days a week in office
Building digital infrastructure for automotive parts supply
Be an early applicant
Building digital infrastructure for automotive parts supply
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
+ Equity
2+ days a week in office
101-200 employees
Company mission
To connect the world's parts, making it easy for repairers to find and buy the right parts.
Role
Who you are
- Software Engineering: You excel at developing and maintaining large, established software systems beyond simple scripts and utilities
- You definitely know what makes software maintainable and you are able to write robust code
- Firmly grounded computer science fundamentals: Including data structures, concurrency, architecture, APIs, testing, and design patterns
- System engineering fundamentals: You most likely know how to deploy and use memory or stack sampling profiler, how to locate excessive lock contention, how to identify network issues, etc
- SRE Expertise: Hands-on experience with modern SRE practices and tooling – for example, containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), infrastructure-as-code (Terraform), and GitOps workflows (ArgoCD or equivalent)
- You have designed, built, and maintained scalable infrastructure and CI/CD systems
- Cloud & Systems Knowledge: Deep familiarity with at least one major cloud platform and Linux operating system
- You can tune servers, manage databases/storage, and wrangle Kubernetes clusters
- Ownership & Leadership: High degree of ownership and bias for action, with a proactive approach to solving problems
- You take initiative and don’t wait to be told what to do
- You have demonstrated leadership through mentoring junior engineers or leading small teams/projects, even if not formally a manager
- We’re seeking a track record of ownership over critical systems and successful delivery of complex projects
- Collaboration & Communication: Excellent communication skills (written and verbal) and a collaborative attitude
- You can work across teams and departments – from explaining technical issues to non-technical colleagues, to coordinating with engineers on deployments
- You value teamwork and knowledge sharing
- Adaptability: Willingness to wear multiple hats and adapt to evolving needs
- In a fast-growing startup environment, requirements can change – you’re excited by the chance to learn new skills, take on new challenges, and grow with the role
- Please note: if you don't have all the skills/experience listed above but believe you could be outstanding in this role, please still consider applying. Many folks, especially those from underrepresented or marginalised groups, often count themselves out. Please allow us to learn more about you and why you're exceptional!
Desirable
- Experience in a high-growth startup environment, which means you’re used to the pace and ambiguity
- Any prior experience maintaining security compliance and certifications in a company is a plus
- If you have used specific tools we use (GCP, ArgoCD, GitLab CI, Kafka, etc.), that’s great – if not, you can learn quickly
- If you have significant experience running production workloads over Apache Cassandra and / or Postgres database
- If you developed software in Rust programming language and can mentor other developers on the best practices in Rust
What the job involves
- Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) combines software and systems engineering to build and run large-scale, distributed systems, ensuring that both internally critical and externally visible services have the reliability, uptime, and performance appropriate to clients' needs while enabling a fast rate of improvement
- SREs maintain constant awareness of system capacity and performance, ensuring our networks, platforms, and tools are scalable, secure, and reliable so engineers can focus on delivering impactful software
- This senior role demands high autonomy, leadership, and strategic thinking, making it ideal for those excited by the challenge of designing and supporting the infrastructure that connects the worlds parts
- Reliability Engineering: Ensure the stability, scalability, and security of our cloud infrastructure, Partly & 3rd party applications in our Kubernetes powered clusters
- Leverage Infrastructure-as-Code and automation (Terraform for GCP, GitOps with ArgoCD, Custom scripts in Python/Bash, etc.) to deploy and manage workloads and resources in a repeatable, automated way
- Cost Optimisation: Monitor and optimise costs across our cloud and on-prem infrastructure, ensuring we get maximum value from our investments
- Make recommendations for resource allocation or architecture changes to improve cost-efficiency without sacrificing reliability or performance
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with developers, data engineers, and leadership to plan infrastructure needs and improvements
- Provide tooling, guidance and training to the engineering team on SRE practices, and collaborate during software delivery to ensure smooth integrations from code to production
- Software Engineering: Make sure our software meets high production readiness standards
- When you see a problem or an opportunity to improve, you drive the solution
- Troubleshooting: participate in incidents resolutions, give developers helping hand in debugging applications, networks, databases, compute systems
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Partly is a fast-growing tech company quietly tackling one of the biggest challenges in the automotive industry — finding the right auto parts. In a world where nearly everything is digital and automated, the parts industry has been lacking innovation. Partly is changing that by building the AI-powered infrastructure that connects the global auto parts supply chain.
Think of it like this: what Visa does for financial transactions, Partly does for auto parts. It doesn't sell parts but automates the complex, behind-the-scenes processes, ensuring that buying and selling parts is seamless and near error-free. With a massive database of over 50 million vehicle parts, it offers modular tools, allowing businesses to build their own systems without starting from scratch.
In 2024, the company was named New Zealand's fastest-growing startup and has expanded to the US and UK. CEO Levi Fawcett took home top honours at the New Zealand Leadership Awards as well. It's no surprise either, with the company raising the country's largest-ever Series A ($36M) and continuing to scale at pace. With big-name investors, a growing team, and a product solving a real global problem, Partly is very much on its way to becoming a true industry giant.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Meet the team
Levi Fawcett, CEO
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Dec 2022
$21.4m
SERIES A
Oct 2021
$2.2m
SEED
Total funding: $25.3m
Company benefits
- High trust, low process and no bureaucracy: We hire exceptional people whose judgment we trust. This means we proactively remove any process or rules that slow us down (for example, our expense policy is simply the “red face test”).
- Competitive base salary + equity: We offer competitive salaries and generous equity options for all full-time employees, ensuring everyone shares in the financial upside when we win.
- Flexible working hours: Choose when to work based on what time you’re most effective (no mandatory or set hours). We combine flexibility with an office-first approach (in cities where we have critical mass, i.e. London, Christchurch, Auckland).
- Focus Days: Two days per week, with zero meetings, dedicated solely to uninterrupted deep work.
- Take time when you need it: We don’t ask questions or care if people have a negative leave balance. We work extremely hard and trust our team to take the time they need to recharge.
- Learn from the best: Whether it’s during a ‘Lunch n Learn’ or hearing from a unicorn CEO at a Fireside chat, you’ll have the opportunity to constantly learn from the world’s best.
Company HQ
71 Central Street , London , UK
Articles
Leadership
Levi Fawcett
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously worked as a Guidance, Navigation and Control Engineer at Rocket Lab USA.
Tony Austin
(Co-Founder & CSO)Previously the founder of Metamotiv. Tony also spent 7 years at Amazon, joining as the Head of Automative Europe before becoming the General Manager of Amazon Australia & New Zealand (Retail). He also spent some time as a Country Leader at eBay Motors Group and as a UK Category Manager at AS Watson.
Harry Uffindell
(CPO)Previously a Startup Advisor (Growth, Operations, People, Fundraising) at Growth Engineer. Prior to that, Harry was a Country Manager & Head of Growth at Tilt until it was acquired by Airbnb where he then became the Head of BizOps & Strategy, APAC at Airbnb.
Tim Grunshaw
(Vice President of Engineering)Tim previously spent 7 years at Microsoft in various Engineering roles. Prior to that, he co-founded TradeIntel where he worked as a Software Engineer for 3 years.
Nathan Taylor
(Co-Founder & COO)Nathan previously co-founded AllGoods where he served as the Head of Operations. Prior to that, he was an Editor & Translator at Chengdu TV and a Chinese-English Translator at HS Translation.
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