Site Reliability Engineer

Summary

Join Edpuzzle's Security and Infrastructure Team in Spain as a Site Reliability Engineer. You will ensure the reliability, scalability, and maintainability of our systems, working with AWS, CDK, JavaScript, React, Redux, Node, Express, MongoDB, and OpenSearch. Collaborate with DevOps and Engineering teams to design resilient systems, manage incidents, and champion best practices. This role requires at least 3 years of SRE experience and expertise in AWS, CloudWatch, Datadog, and CI/CD. You'll be proactive in monitoring, root cause analysis, and documentation. Edpuzzle offers a competitive salary, benefits, flexible work arrangements, and a collaborative team environment.

Requirements

• At least 3 years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps Engineering, System Administration or Cloud Infrastructure Engineering for a web-based product with a focus on observability and reliability
• Good knowledge of Amazon Web Services (AWS), CloudWatch and Datadog
• Experience with software release management and deployment pipelines (Git, CI/CD)
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code using AWS CDK
• Experience writing JavaScript, TypeScript or Node.js code
• Pragmatic with technologies: you understand tech is a tool to solve a product problem, tech is never the end goal
• Excellent ability to communicate your ideas, regardless of the audience
• Product-oriented: You make all your technology decisions with the final user in mind
• You are naturally drawn towards understanding the bigger picture and recognize when there's a need for improvement, applying your intentional and rational thought process to address complex issues
• You are able to work independently, plan and exercise conscious control of time spent on specific goals to reach deadlines effectively, and you don’t hesitate to pursue a goal despite the difficulties, all while maintaining a flexible mindset
• You are based in Spain and have a work permit to work in Spain

Responsibilities

• Work with the Product, Infrastructure and Engineering teams to find the best technical solutions by participating in discussions and sharing your opinions
• Take ownership of the problems that are being worked on, understanding why they are needed by the users, carrying out your own research, making your own proposals and working on the implementation while relying on your teammates for help when needed
• Communicate effectively in a team in order to maximize productivity, ownership, and focus to help projects reach the finish line with the best possible outcome and by the project deadline
• Design a cloud infrastructure that is secure, scalable, and highly available on AWS
• Engage in proactive monitoring and observability with comprehensive tools and practices that not only detect and warn, but also predict potential system issues before they affect our users
• Lead the charge in root cause analysis for production and infrastructure issues, transforming challenges into learning opportunities
• Provision, configure and maintain cloud infrastructure as code
• Perform rotatory on-call service, ensuring reliability and uptime for our users
• Write technical documentation, contributing to our technical knowledge base and empowering your peers
• Perform other exciting duties as opportunities and needs arise

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with MongoDB or OpenSearch database administration
• Experience deploying and maintaining complex cloud infrastructures serving high traffic web applications
• Experience with complex backend architectures such as Hexagonal Architecture and Domain Driven Design (DDD)
• Experience with other cloud providers such as Azure or Google Cloud Platform

Benefits

• Competitive salary at €‎39K – €‎53K based on your professional experience
• Yearly salary review based on performance
• On-call compensation
• Free private health insurance policy with AXA
• Meal allowance with Cobee: an annual budget of €2000 to spend on the restaurants and food delivery services you like the most
• Flexible remuneration: you’ll be able to include your monthly expenses in public transport, childcare, and health insurance of immediate family members (spouse and/or children) into your payroll
• 24 paid holidays plus December 24th and 31st
• Flexible working hours and reduced working time on Fridays
• Remote-first: Feel free to work 100% remotely or use the Barcelona office whenever you want, for the best of both worlds!
• Free coffee, snacks, and drinks in the Barcelona office
• Team building events during working hours
• Incredible opportunity to grow, learn, and build lifetime bonds with other passionate people