Scentbird

Senior SRE/DevOps Engineer

Scentbird

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Serbia

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Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

AWSDistributed SystemsDNSDockerElasticSearchGrafanaJavaKubernetesPostgresPrometheusRedisTCP/IPTypeScriptUnix

About the role

  • Use your shift to prevent incidents from ever happening.
  • Run our infrastructure with AWS, Docker and Kubernetes.
  • Make monitoring and alerting alert on symptoms and not on outages.
  • Document every action so your findings turn into repeatable actions–and then into automation.
  • Improve the deployment process to make it as boring as possible.
  • Design, build and maintain core infrastructure pieces that allow Scentbird scaling.
  • Debug production issues across services and levels of the stack.
  • Plan the growth of Scentbird’s infrastructure.

Requirements

  • Strong hands-on Kubernetes experience required (EKS preferred): cluster operations, workload design, networking, upgrades, and performance troubleshooting.
  • 5+ years production application support experience in a high uptime environment
  • 5+ years UNIX administration experience including diagnosis of performance issues, package management, load estimation, kernel tuning, networking configuration, etc.
  • 5+ years hosting experience in a large heavy-traffic environment
  • 3+ years software engineering experience (Java/TypeScript is plus, but any other programming language is good to know)
  • Strong understanding of networking fundamentals (VPCs, routing, load balancers, DNS, TCP/IP, TLS) and debugging service-to-service connectivity issues.
  • 4+ years experience working with Gitlab CI/CD / Github action
  • Hands-on AWS experience strongly required
  • Hands-on experience building monitoring/alerting/tracing systems (Grafana/Prometheus/ELK/OpenTelemetry).
  • Database experience is a plus (RDS/Aurora/Postgres/Redis/Elasticsearch), especially around scaling, replication, and performance troubleshooting.
  • Service Mesh experience is a plus
  • Security experience is a plus
  • Excellent troubleshooting and analytical skills
  • Ability to work independently on large, complex projects with minimal guidance
  • Excellent troubleshooting and analytical skills with the ability to debug distributed systems under pressure.
Benefits
  • Competitive base compensation
  • Bonus program
  • Paid Time Off
  • A fun, creative and energetic work environment.
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Hard Skills & Tools
KubernetesAWSDockerUNIX administrationJavaTypeScriptGitlab CI/CDGithub actionsmonitoring systemsdatabase management
Soft Skills
troubleshootinganalytical skillsindependent workproject management