Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Platform & Cloud FinOps
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Senior Site Reliability Engineer optimizing and automating cloud infrastructure in a fast-growing travel startup. Focused on cost efficiency, system reliability, and supporting engineering teams.
Responsibilities:
- Work on projects that will drive a higher cost efficiency, such as:
- Reduce our network egress costs by removing unnecessary headers.
- Ensure that our warehouse data is in use and select the most efficient storage for it. E.g., cold storage for buckets with infrequent retrieval.
- Ensure that autoscaling for both databases and compute is well optimized.
- Work on improving the current cost attribution to ensure all teams have clear visibility into their costs.
- You will also participate in providing support to incidents and be part of on-call rotation for platform incidents, as each engineering team has their own on-call rotation (Team is scattered across America and Europe, so you can sleep at night!). You will also contribute to solving doubts and problems engineers might face with our infrastructure and approving PRs that require Platform supervision.
- You will be part of a small and highly efficient team of SREs.
Requirements:
- Strong background in SRE, DevOps, Software Engineering or Systems engineering
- Troubleshooting skills
- System design with good analytical capabilities
- Good communication skills
- Knowledge of major cloud providers, preferably Google Cloud
- SQL knowledge
- Containers, Kubernetes, and related tooling like Kustomize and Helm
- Service Mesh, preferably with Istio
- Networking knowledge. DNS, TLS, certificates, ingresses, etc.
- Observability with log collection, metrics, APM, etc. preferably Datadog
- Security knowledge, IAM, RBAC, network security, etc.
- Knowledge on authentication and authorization technologies
- CI/CD
- Database technologies
- Competent in scripting with Bash and Python or other scripting languages
Benefits:
- Well-funded and proven startup with large ambitions, competitive salary, upsides of pre-IPO equity packages.
- Hopper covers the cost of employee premiums for private medical and dental coverage.
- Hopper also offers private life and accident coverage.
- Please ask us about our very generous parental leave, much above industry standards!.
- Access to co-working space on demand through FlexDesk AND Work-from-home stipend.
- Unlimited PTO.
- Hopper offers a monthly cash allowances for gym memberships and to cover home-office expenses for a comfortable remote working experience.
- Carrot Cash travel stipend.
- Entrepreneurial culture where pushing limits and taking risks is everyday business.
- Open communication with management and company leadership.
- Small, dynamic teams = massive impact.
















