Lead SRE Engineer

ABOUT THE TEAM

SRE is a small, agile unit which is aiming to increase resiliency of our platform, bake reliability into the development process and make everyone around more efficient.

ABOUT THE ROLE

We are looking for a highly experienced engineer to join our SRE team. As a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), you will ensure our systems' reliability, scalability, and efficiency by applying software engineering principles to operations. You’ll be here to support teams, optimize systems, and foster a culture of reliability.

The ideal candidate will have a broad experience in developing and maintaining resilient software across different stacks, from cloud infrastructure to mobile and web platforms. As well as being familiar with SRE practices, monitoring and observability tooling. Most importantly being an advocate for:

As a Lead SRE you’ll: 

• Coach and Enable Teams: Educate teams on ownership principles and reliability best practices to embed a culture of operational excellence.
• Eliminate Toil: Automate repetitive tasks, such as incident mitigation or database failover, to allow teams to focus on creative problem-solving.
• Promote Ownership and Collaboration: Embrace a "you build it, you run it" philosophy, working across teams to ensure system reliability and accountability.

Drive observability approach. Make the best use of our tooling, automate and help teams to be on top of their service statuses.Set the stage for incident management. Help to streamline the incident management process, build tooling for it. In case of complex problems, help the teams to navigate it.

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR

• Degree in Computer Science or a related field
• Experience in distributed computing
• A depth of  knowledge with one or more of the following programming languages: Python, Java, Go, JavaScript
• Experience with a variety of cloud computing platforms and technologies, including AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, and EKS
• Familiarity with observability tooling like Prometheus, ELK, Datadog, Honeycomb or others
• Familiarity with designing fault-tolerant systems, including SLIs, SLOs and error budgets

OUR TECH STACK

Backend

• Java, Python
• Terraform
• PostgreSQL
• AWS cloud and their services (SQS, S3, EKS)
• Kubernetes
• Microservice architecture

Monitoring and Analytics

• DataDog
• Semgrep

Note: New joiners are encouraged to deploy to production within their first two weeks.

WHAT YOU’LL GET IN RETURN

• 25 days paid annual leave 
• 3 paid days off for volunteering or L&D activities
• Extended maternity and paternity leave covered by the company
• Personal L&D budget in the amount of 1000 BGN per year
• Additional health & dental insurance
• Mental wellbeing platform 
• Fully covered Multisports card
• Food vouchers
• Snacks, light food, drinks in the office
• WFH equipment allowance
• Flexible working from home
• Sabbatical Leave
• Share options

TIDEAN WAYS OF WORKING

At Tide, we champion a flexible workplace model that supports both in-person and remote work to cater to the specific needs of our different teams. 

While remote work is supported, we believe in the power of face-to-face interactions to foster team spirit and collaboration. Our offices are designed as hubs for innovation and team-building, where we encourage regular in-person gatherings to foster a strong sense of community. 

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