Senior Site Reliability Engineer

For over 31,000 growing businesses and HR teams seeking a comprehensive, all-in-one HR suite, Workable emerges as the premier solution. We uniquely combine the world’s most widely adopted Applicant Tracking System (Workable Recruiting) with a full-spectrum employee management system (Workable HR). At Workable, we empower companies to focus on what truly matters: hiring the right people and fostering their growth.

While we take HR seriously, we maintain a lighthearted and collaborative culture. At Workable, you’ll find smart people who have fun, learn, innovate, and help others do the same. We respect everyone, we hire the best, and make sure every experience is special.

We’re growing fast and we want to make sure that we scale from thousands to hundreds of thousands so we’re looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join our SRE team.

Our product is built with a microservices architecture deployed on the Kubernetes platform. Our SRE team is responsible for deploying, monitoring, optimizing, and securing our cloud infrastructure and company software; both rapidly expanding. Automation is at the core of what we do. If you love working with new technologies, open-source software, and solving complex problems on highly distributed systems then this is the job for you! You will be part of a talented team of engineers that demonstrate superb technical competency, delivering mission-critical infrastructure and ensuring the highest levels of availability, performance, and security. 

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer in this team with an emphasis on Tools and Automations, you will be responsible for the following:

• Develop tools and automations to make operations and deployments simpler and more robust.
• Operate, deploy, and monitor cloud services from development to production.
• Working in a highly cross-functional team with Developers on designing, releasing, and troubleshooting production systems.
• Be responsible for the availability, scalability, and performance of our systems.
• Troubleshoot issues, do capacity planning, and analyze system performance.
• Lead projects within the team and be responsible for their timely delivery.

• BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering (or a proven strong background)
• Excellent communication skills in English, particularly written communication.
• Analytical and troubleshooting skills on large-scale distributed systems
• Work autonomously and be able to deliver projects on time.
• Passion for cutting-edge cloud technologies and automation
• Strong curiosity for discovering new insights and eager to challenge the status quo
• 5+ years of relevant work experience, including programming experience
• Experience with the Kubernetes platform and technology stack
• Experience with a major cloud provider (GCP and AWS preferred)
• Experience with configuration management and orchestration tools (e.g., Ansible, Terraform)
• Experience with centralized logging, monitoring systems, and tooling frameworks
• Deep knowledge of Linux systems
• Familiarity with at least one programming language (preferably Go, Python,  Java, C++)
• Familiarity with Relational and NoSQL (MongoDB, Redis, Elastic, etc.) databases 
• Oh, and if you're into DevOps technologies and the CNCF ecosystem, but have experience with other frameworks, please do apply. We value quality engineers, not the tools they've used.

Preferred qualifications:

• Bonus: Networking skills, especially TCP/IP, HTTP, DNS and load balancers