Site Reliability Engineer

Salary: £70-90k

About Quix

Our mission is to help developers use live data in their applications, faster.

The use of event streaming is booming. Organisations are in a race to become data-driven, but working with live data-in-flight remains difficult, time-consuming and costly.

Our innovative developer-first platform enables developers and enterprise to build, test and deploy live models and services directly on Kafka, fast.

With built-in scale, efficiency and resilience, our unique Stream SDK supports time-series data, events, metadata and binary blobs, integrating seamlessly into the application stack to deliver an end-to-end platform that developers love, in minutes.

Quix is adopted by developers across the video game, racing, manufacturing, automotive, health and telco industries.

Our team rapidly developed into a remote-first organisation during 2020 with people now living and working across the world.

We are building a category defining platform which will launch a new data-driven epoch.

Join us and bring your passion!

Role

As a Site Reliability Engineer you will help deliver and scale a platform that developers love to use. You will:

  • Maintain existing services to guarantee uptime.

  • Build and implement disaster recovery when it is not and ensuring it is mostly the former via improvements.

  • Keep services running or getting them back up and running quickly when a failure occurs.

  • Ensure that we ship software that meets security requirements.

  • Automate work including infrastructure needs, failover solutions, failure mitigation.

  • Improve monitoring and alerting solutions.

  • Maintain documentation for recurring issues, prepare incident reports for production issues.

  • Migrate the platform to AWS, GCP and additional cloud platforms as required.

  • Design and implement on-prem and hybrid-cloud solutions.

Required skills and knowledge
  • Professional communication skills, both verbal and written
  • Experience operating large-scale production systems, with keen understanding of design principles and best practices of implementation
  • Knowledge of:
    • Networking (DNS, load balancer, etc)
    • Unix / Linux shell
    • Encryption for data-in-flight & rest
  • Experience in the following technologies:
    • Kafka
    • Kubernetes
    • Docker
    • Azure Cloud Service
    • Ansible, Terraform or alternatives
    • Source control (git)
    • Helm
Nice to have
  • Experience in the following technologies:
    • AWS
    • Google Cloud
    • Chaos Engineering
Benefits
  • Work from home anywhere in the UK and EU (may be required to travel occasionally)
  • Team meet-ups in EU destinations
  • 37 days holiday (including all public holidays in your region)
  • 2 additional paid days off a year for volunteering work
  • Generous salary according to the experience and skills of the candidate
  • Options to earn stock in the company
  • Budget to choose own hardware and office set-up
  • Training and personal development budget
  • Regular socials with food/drink allowance

 

If you are interested in joining Quix, please send your CV to agnese@quix.ai

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