Senior Site Reliability Engineer

17 days ago

Remote, IrelandSenior

Responsibilities

Scale backend systems to support high-volume customers.
Improve infrastructure reliability, scalability, cost efficiency, and developer experience.
Work with backend teams to optimize the engineering stack and infrastructure.
Become and later train others as an Incident Commander.
Participate in the EU side of a follow-the-sun on-call rotation.
Help navigate tradeoffs between reliability and other organizational priorities.
Support a healthy cross-Atlantic engineering culture through transparent communication and feedback.
Optionally represent Honeycomb through blog posts, conference talks, and presentations.

Strong experience with AWS and Kubernetes.
Experience performing infrastructure cost analysis and reduction.
Solid experience with Helm, Terraform, and CI/CD.
Project management skills and software engineering experience.
Experience with Kafka or another high-volume distributed system.
Golang and performance engineering experience are preferred.
Familiarity with observability concepts such as SLOs and instrumentation.
Strong written and spoken communication skills, including adapting communication to different audiences and giving direct feedback.
Ability to work through ambiguity, experiment, and collaborate with geographically distributed teams.
Interest in both the technical and human aspects of reliability engineering.

Fully distributed, remote-first work arrangement.
Base salary range of €140.590—€165.400 EUR based on experience.
Generous equity and an employee-friendly stock program.
Unlimited PTO.
Home office, co-working, and internet stipend.
Full benefits coverage for employees, with additional dependent coverage available.
Up to 16 weeks of paid parental leave.
Annual development allowance.
Honeycomb cannot currently sponsor or support visa transfers.

201-500 employees