Site Reliability Engineer, Orbital Witness
£100-120k
+ Stock Options
1-5 days a week in office (Farringdon, London)
Legal due diligence platform for property transactions
Job no longer available
Legal due diligence platform for property transactions
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
£100-120k
+ Stock Options
1-5 days a week in office (Farringdon, London)
21-100 employees
Company mission
Orbital Witness' mission is to make property transactions radically more transparent, quick and easy to transact.
Role
Who you are
- If you thrive in startup environments and enjoy the blend of software engineering, operations, and infrastructure, we’d love to hear from you
- 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
- 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
What the job involves
- We are looking for a highly skilled Engineer to join our team as our first dedicated SRE/DevOps hire
- This role offers an exciting opportunity to 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Orbital Witness builds SaaS solutions for real estate lawyers and property professionals, transforming how property professionals work, 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.
There is huge opportunity to transform the way that property, the world's largest asset class, is transacted and bring it into the 21st century.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
30% female employees
44% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Employee endorsements
Opportunities to learn
"Every employee gets £1000/year to spend on personal development (books, conferences, tech etc). None of this has any red tape, ask your manager and..."
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
May 2023
$9.4m
SERIES A
Jul 2020
$4.2m
SEED
Total funding: $15.1m
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
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)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)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.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Orbital Witness
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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