Remote Sr. Site Reliability Engineer

Description:

• Varo’s SRE team is responsible for designing, building, and running large-scale, distributed, fault-tolerant systems that power most of Varo's operations.
• The team focuses on AWS and Kubernetes, maintaining an open-source first and results-oriented mindset.
• They prioritize automation and observability, aiming to reduce manual and remedial tasks.
• Daily activities include scaling production infrastructure, building CI/CD pipelines, and collaborating with developers to enhance processes.
• Responsibilities include taking ownership of the availability and resiliency of Varo's cloud-based infrastructure, designing disaster recovery scenarios, and creating self-healing patterns.
• The role involves writing and maintaining infrastructure as code using Terraform and Kubernetes helm charts, as well as building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
• The engineer will improve observability and monitoring by implementing advanced tools and technologies, creating monitoring dashboards, alerts, and log systems.
• They will implement advanced observability tools like distributed tracing and anomaly detection for better system insights and troubleshooting.
• The position requires leading high-profile incidents and facilitating blameless post-mortems.
• Collaboration with development teams is essential to implement and improve SLIs and SLOs, promoting service ownership.
• The engineer will use monitoring data to drive actionable insights and contribute to incident response strategies.
• Automating operational tasks and writing clean, scalable scripts and systems to manage platform infrastructure and applications are key responsibilities.

Requirements:

• A minimum of 8 years of experience as a Site Reliability, DevOps, or Software Engineer, with proficiency in one or more high-level programming languages such as Python, GoLang, Ruby, Java, or JavaScript is required.
• Excellent Linux and troubleshooting skills are essential.
• Experience in building and supporting high-availability cloud environments in AWS is necessary.
• Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and deployment automation using tools such as Terraform, Helm, Gitlab, or equivalent is required.
• Experience running Kubernetes in production is mandatory.
• Familiarity with Istio is a plus.
• Experience with monitoring, logging, and tracing tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger/Tempo, ELK/Loki, and OpenTelemetry is required.
• The candidate should have experience instrumenting code (Java/Kotlin, Python, Go, etc.) and creating simple instrumentation frameworks for developers.
• Participation in an on-call rotation for after-hours production infrastructure incidents is expected.
• Experience with the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), CI/CD, and related tooling is necessary.
• Kafka experience is a plus.

Benefits:

• The salary range for this role is between $150,000 and $190,000 per year, based on function, level, and geographic location.
• Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors, including candidate experience and expertise, and may vary from the identified range.