Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Summary

Join Emi Labs, a Y Combinator-backed startup on a mission to improve access to professional opportunities for frontline workers. We're building Emi, an AI recruitment assistant, and need a skilled SRE Engineer to centralize our microservices telemetry and improve our monitoring and observability stack. You'll be a key player in streamlining our tooling and ensuring high uptime for our services. This role requires significant experience with microservices, distributed systems, Kubernetes, and observability platforms. The ideal candidate is a proactive problem-solver with a strong DevOps mindset and excellent teamwork skills. Emi Labs offers a dynamic startup environment with ample growth opportunities.

Requirements

• 4 years of experience working with microservices and distributed systems: tracing, load balancing, concurrency, event-driven architecture patterns
• 4 years of experience working as an SRE or DevOps engineer in cloud solution architecture
• 3 years of experience administrating Kubernetes clusters in EKS/AKS/GKE
• 2 years of experience administrating any observability platform
• Fluent in scripting, Linux, Docker and CI pipelines
• Experience dealing with production incidents, troubleshooting and remediation
• Familiar with any modern Infra as Code solution, Terraform is a plus
• Advanced English level

Responsibilities

• Be a key player in the project of centralizing our microservices telemetry (metrics, traces and logs) in a single platform
• Become the technical owner of our monitoring and observability stack
• Move fast, streamlining our tooling to unlock the full potential of our development teams
• Identify, propose, and implement improvements in our cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes clusters
• Ensure the best possible experience for our developers and the highest uptime rate for our services

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Sentry, and/or New Relic
• Avid to train developers and new colleagues in the DevOps mindset
• Strong background in designing backend systems on any high-level language
• Enterprise integrations experience: webhooks, public APIs
• Application performance optimization: SQL queries, profiling, memory heap, garbage collection
• Deployment strategies: rolling update, blue/green, canary
• FinOps experience
• Experience designing and implementing Disaster Recovery Plans