Remote Staff 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.
• The SRE team emphasizes automation and observability, aiming to automate manual tasks and promote a data-driven approach to scaling the platform.
• Daily activities include scaling production infrastructure, building CI/CD pipelines, and collaborating with developers to enhance system performance.
• The Staff Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) will ensure the reliability, scalability, and performance of cloud-based services, drive best practices, and contribute to the design and implementation of robust cloud infrastructures.
• Responsibilities include leading and mentoring a team of SREs, providing strategic direction for cloud infrastructure on AWS, overseeing observability solutions, and managing service meshes with Istio.
• The role involves developing SRE best practices, collaborating with development teams, writing infrastructure as code, and automating operational tasks.

Requirements:

• A minimum of 12 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.
• Proven leadership experience in SRE team settings, focusing on driving and architecting projects is essential.
• Expert-level Linux and troubleshooting skills are required.
• Experience in building and supporting high-availability cloud environments in AWS is necessary.
• Expertise in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and deployment automation using tools such as Terraform, Helm, Gitlab, or equivalent is required.
• Experience running Kubernetes and Istio in production environments is essential.
• Advanced observability skills with monitoring, logging, and tracing tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger/Tempo, ELK/Loki, and OpenTelemetry are required.
• Experience in instrumenting code (Java/Kotlin, Python, Go, etc.) and creating instrumentation frameworks for developers is necessary.
• Participation in an on-call rotation for after-hours production infrastructure incidents is required.
• Experience with SDLC, CI/CD, and related tooling is necessary.
• Kafka and message streaming experience is a plus.

Benefits:

• The salary range for this position is $200,000 - $220,000 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.