Site Reliability Engineer
Strike
WorldwideremotePosted 14 days ago
Skill Required
EngineeringSite-Reliability-EngineeringDevOpsCloud-EngineerPlatform-EngineeringSenior-Site-Reliability-EngineerSite-Reliability-Engineering-(SRE)Site Reliability EngineerSystem DesignSOCtroubleshootingObservabilityKubernetesR ProgrammingPrometheusanalyticalautomationTerraformdebuggingbuildingPythonArgoCDdesignCloudHelmShell ScriptingGCPandElasticsearchGoAIFulltime
Key highlights
- Minimum 5 years of experience in SRE, platform engineering, or software development
- Role location: Europe
- Expert-level practical knowledge of GCP required
- No educational credentials required for hiring
Role overview
Strike is the Bitcoin company, building a better financial system powered by Bitcoin for individuals and businesses across more than 100 countries. We are seeking a highly experienced Site Reliability Engineer located in Europe with a strong track record of tackling complex reliability and scalability challenges and a history of providing technical guidance to teams.
Responsibilities
- Lead Technical Initiatives: Drive key technical initiatives focused on improving the reliability, performance, and scalability of our critical systems, often leading technical aspects within projects.
- Architect and Implement Advanced Solutions: Design and implement sophisticated resilient and scalable solutions, leveraging your deep understanding of distributed systems.
- Master Troubleshooting and Optimization: Lead complex troubleshooting efforts, identify deep-seated root causes, and implement advanced optimizations.
- Build and Evangelize Automation: Develop and champion the adoption of robust automation frameworks and tools, potentially guiding more junior engineers in their development.
- Elevate Observability Practices: Design and implement comprehensive and insightful monitoring and logging solutions, ensuring actionable insights are available across teams.
- Provide Leadership in Incident Management: Take a leadership role in incident response, providing critical technical direction and mentorship during high-pressure situations.
- Champion Post-Mortem Excellence: Lead and contribute to in-depth blameless post-mortem analyses, driving significant improvements based on learnings.
- Mentor and Guide Team Members: Share your extensive knowledge and experience to mentor and guide other SREs and engineers, fostering their technical growth.
Requirements
- Extensive experience with minimum 5 years in SRE, platform engineering, or software development with a strong operational focus.
- Demonstrated experience in providing technical leadership, guidance, or mentorship to engineering teams.
- Expert-level practical knowledge of cloud platforms, especially GCP.
- Deep hands-on experience with container orchestration (Kubernetes) and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Helm, ArgoCD).
- Strong command of multiple scripting and programming languages (Python, Go, Bash).
- Proven expertise in building and leveraging advanced monitoring and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack).
- Exceptional analytical, problem-solving, and debugging skills at a senior level.
- Excellent communication, collaboration, and influencing skills.
- Located in Europe
Nice to have
- Organizational and leadership skills
Benefits
- Location dependent compensation
Additional details
- While we’re not actively hiring for this role at the moment, we’re always interested in connecting with great people and building our talent pool for future opportunities.
- We do not make hiring decisions based on educational history whatsoever. Our Founder is a college dropout. We work with high school dropouts, PHD candidates and everything in-between. We do not hire credentials.
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- Use of AI. Strike uses AI-assisted tools to help review, assess, and verify applications and support the integrity of our recruitment process. A human is always involved in our hiring decisions — we do not rely on automated processing alone.
- Originally posted on Himalayas