What are the responsibilities and job description for the Site Reliability Engineer II position at GoCardless?
The role
Foundations group is searching for an engineer with a strong interest in infrastructure management and the site reliability engineering problem space. You will be a member of a distributed team working with all other engineering teams - from product to data - to help build and scale the global platform our payments and open banking products sit on.
If you enjoy hard challenges, value learning and want to create an impact, then this is a place for you.
Tech stack and tools
- Python, Ruby, Golang;
- Terraform;
- Atlantis
- AWS, GCP;
- Kubernetes, GKE;
- Github, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD;
- Grafana, Prometheus;
- Elastic
What excites you
We use a wide range of technologies, and will never expect you to have experience with all of them. We do hope that you are enthusiastic about the infrastructure space and the impact your work can have on others. To enjoy this work you’ll be excited by:
- Building and maintaining automation of new and existing infrastructure;
- Appreciate and believe in building easy-to-understand and maintain tools to solve problems;
- Automating operational tasks to eliminate toil using your software development skills and experience;
- Ensuring that systems are safe and secure against cybersecurity threats;
- Working closely with software engineers and data scientists;
- Being involved in the technical design of architecture and making technical decisions;
- Cloud-first engineering;
- Ongoing opportunities to further develop your skills;
- Care about working with people who share the same values as you and who will continually push you to grow.
What excites us
- Experience with at least one programming language such as Python, Ruby, Golang etc.;
- Experience with IaC tooling, such as Terraform;
- Previous experience with Terraform automation toolings such as Terragrunt or Atlantis will be considered an advantage;
- Experience with cloud computing providers such as AWS or GCP;
- Experience with containerized applications;
- Previous experience with container orchestration such as Kubernetes and GKE will be considered an advantage;
- Experience with CI/CD tooling such as Github, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, etc.;
- Experience working with monitoring tooling such as Grafana, Prometheus, Zabbix etc.;
- Previous experience with centralised log management through Elastic tooling will be considered an advantage;
- Experience with relational databases and other datastores, especially around high availability and performance optimisation;
- Awareness of DevOps and Agile principles;
- Fluency in English;
- Excellent teamwork and communication skills.
Salary range - the expected base salary range for this position is between €3,200 - €4,800 (gross).
Base salary ranges may vary and are determined by things like geography, level of experience, interview assessment and parity between you and fellow employees at GoCardless doing similar work. Please note that whilst we strive to offer competitive compensation, there is no guarantee that an offer will reach the upper limit of the stated range.
Salary : $3,200 - $4,800