Senior Site Reliability Engineer

We are looking for an experienced Lead/Senior Site Reliability Engineer – Observability to join a high-performing engineering team responsible for designing, building, and operating large-scale observability platforms that support mission-critical cloud services.

In this role, you will work on highly scalable monitoring, logging, alerting, and telemetry systems that enable reliable and high-performing distributed applications. You will collaborate closely with software engineering, platform, and infrastructure teams to enhance system reliability, automate operations, and improve the overall developer experience.

This opportunity is ideal for engineers who enjoy solving complex infrastructure challenges, working with large-scale distributed systems, and building resilient cloud platforms.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain scalable and highly available observability platforms.
• Build and operate enterprise-scale monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions.
• Design and optimize Prometheus-based monitoring architectures for large-scale environments.
• Deploy and manage high-performance Elasticsearch clusters for centralized logging and analytics.
• Build and maintain high-throughput event streaming pipelines using Kafka.
• Develop self-service APIs, libraries, and tools that enable engineering teams to manage monitoring and observability.
• Automate infrastructure deployment using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform).
• Collaborate with engineering teams to improve system reliability, monitoring, and operational excellence.
• Troubleshoot production issues, perform root cause analysis, and implement long-term preventive solutions.
• Participate in an on-call rotation to support production systems.
• Drive automation, operational excellence, and continuous improvement across the platform.

Required Skills & Experience

• Minimum 5+ years of experience designing, deploying, and operating medium to large-scale distributed systems on Linux environments (Debian, Ubuntu, or similar).
• Minimum 2+ years of programming experience using one or more of the following:
• Go
• Python
• Ruby
• Scala
• Bash
• Strong understanding of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles and best practices.
• Experience building and supporting highly available cloud infrastructure.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and collaboration abilities.

Technical Skills

Candidates should have hands-on experience with several of the following technologies:

• Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
• Observability
• Prometheus
• Thanos
• Cortex
• Grafana
• Graphite
• Elasticsearch
• Logstash
• Kibana (ELK Stack)
• Kafka
• Terraform
• Ansible
• Consul
• Snowflake
• Linux Administration
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• DevOps Practices

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience designing and operating large-scale observability platforms.
• Strong background in distributed systems and cloud infrastructure.
• Experience handling high-volume monitoring, logging, and telemetry data.
• Passion for automation, scalability, and operational excellence.
• Ability to work independently in a remote, collaborative environment.

Eligibility

• Candidates must be authorized to work in the United Kingdom without requiring employer sponsorship.

Why Join Us?

This is an opportunity to work on cutting-edge cloud infrastructure supporting large-scale distributed systems. You'll collaborate with talented engineers, solve complex technical challenges, and contribute to building highly reliable, scalable, and automated platforms in a remote-first environment.