Lead SRE Engineer

Your responsibilities

• As our first Site Reliability Engineer, you will contribute to the evolution of the strategic management of our GCP infrastructure, and of DevOps practices like incident management, SLOs and error budgets. You will champion observability as a way to improve mean time to recover and use DORA metrics to help the Product& Engineering team to get better at creating amazing products,  and help other teams to optimize the use of GCP and manage cost.

Our stack

We rely heavily on the following technologies:

• Terraform for our infrastructure code.
• Python to write our application code
• Postgres for most persistent data storage
• Docker to run our services
• Dagster to schedule workloads
• GCP for our cloud hosting

Requirements

• You are able to prioritize collaboratively between tactical problems and strategic direction.
• You are comfortable and effective working in a terminal in a Unix-based environment
• You are confident in driving Infrastructure-As-Code principles.
• You are confident in driving advanced CI/CD principles across the organization, with the right balance between centralization and decentralisation of responsibilities and checks
• You know when to use the right technical tool for the job at hand.
• You have strong communication skills and are comfortable expressing your ideas to multiple different audiences
• You are proactive with a positive attitude, well organised, and adept at managing competing deadlines and priorities
• You are comfortable with and excited by a fast-paced and often changing environment, eager to solve new problems and learn new skills in order to succeed
• You have a self-starter mindset; you proactively identify issues and opportunities and tackle them without being told to do so
• Teamwork is at your core, and you like to help others grow and succeed.
• You are familiar with data pipelines, workload schedulers (e.g. Airflow, Dagster), and AI-ops processes (e.g. CICD for machine learning)
• Ability to work in an async-first environment
• You live in one of the following countries: the Netherlands, United Kingdom, Ireland, Switzerland, Estonia, Portugal, France or Sweden. 

Nice-to-haves

• You can demonstrate experience scaling large distributed architectures.
• You have experience in working in a remote-first environment.
• You have worked with satellite data and/or imagery.

What you get

• To be part of truly mission-driven work that reduces wildfires, protects earth’s natural resources and helps solve our climate crisis.
• Flexible working environment with a lot of autonomy. We build our work days around our lives, not the other way around.
• Other benefits like a remote working budget, an educational budget and time to develop new skills.
• To be surrounded by an excellent, vibrant, smart team who have each other's back and believe in a culture of openness, tolerance and respect.
• Equity and a competitive salary.

About our team

We are a group of 70 people from all over the world. Twelve nationalities are represented in our team. We meet up once a year in-person for our unforgettable team gathering event. We also offer the option to occasionally meet up for in-person collaboration.