Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Description

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

We are looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to join our growing team in London or in Tallinn within our platform tam.

Your Mission

You'll be working hands on in our Service Platform team. We expect you to build and own the vision for Platform-as-a-Service in TW - lead the way regarding piloting and implementing new solutions on both server and client aspects, track their impact and iteratively reduce overhead in all technical aspects of building new services. We are invested in AWS and Kubernetes, so making the most of these abstractions. You'll also work with our product engineering teams to understand their needs and onboard them to new solutions.

Must Have

• Experience with building out scalable and automated Cloud platforms on preferably AWS
• Experience in infrastructure automation tools (Ansible/Puppet/Chef)
• Containerisation technology and various orchestration platforms e.g. Docker, Kubernetes
• Experience with languages such as Java, Groovy, Python, Go etc
• Basic sysadmin skills in debugging issues with disk, network, app/JVM performance etc
• Will not settle at all for downtime and outages, do not want to be woken up in the middle of the night

Nice to Have

• Good knowledge of relational (RDBMS) and NoSQL databases
• Knowledge and an eye on newer architectural concepts such as microservices, service mesh, lambda programming
• Have ran performance and load tests at scale, and able to forecast capacity for the future
• Network knowledge of DNS, network topology, switches, routers etc.

Key Areas of the role;

• Define and create standard operating procedures that are compliant and auditable
• Ownership of mission-critical shared infrastructure - run, maintain and schedule upgrades
• Isolation of environments and work with various engineering teams to figure out how to best suit their needs
• Sees failover and DR events as something that needs to happen with regularity and should be seamless
• Engage regularly with our blameless postmortem culture, always focused on continuous improvement

More about us here:

On the back end, you will be working on a distributed architecture primarily on Java Spring Boot microservices, using frameworks like Kafka, Zookeeper, Spring Cloud. We’ve been baking more functionality into the platform, with Envoy Proxy (Service Mesh) and Kubernetes. While on the front end we are writing microapps using React and AngularJS.

https://tech.transferwise.com/the-transferwise-stack-heartbeat-of-our-little-revolution/

And for a sneak peek into the TransferWise world of Engineering check out our Tech Blog: https://tech.transferwise.com/

What we offer in return:

• Competitive base salary
• Generous stock options package
• Lots of awesome TransferWise benefits

A bit about TransferWise...

Since 2011, we’ve had a clear mission: money without borders. Built by and for people who live global lives, we’re the fairest, easiest way to manage your money across borders.

We’re just at the beginning of our story and we’re growing at an incredible pace. We won’t stop until anyone, anywhere can send, spend and receive money wherever they are, whatever they’re doing. There’s still heaps to do and we can’t do it alone.

Our People

At TransferWise, you’ll be joining a movement of people who believe in a better, fairer, more transparent way of moving money around the world. You’ll collaborate to do your best work and take on problems that no one has looked at before.

If you’re keen to learn, grow, try new things and aren’t afraid of a bold plan, you’ll fit right in.

How we work...

At TransferWise our strategy emerges from the collective brainpower of all our people, who are organized in dozens of independent, autonomous teams. Teams stay closest to our customers, so they choose what problems to solve and where to spend the most time.

You’ll experience radical levels of ownership and empowerment within your role. Plus the opportunity to see the direct impact of your work on our customers.