Senior Site Reliability Engineer

17 days ago

Remote, United KingdomSenior

Responsibilities

Scale backend systems to support Honeycomb’s highest-volume customers.
Lead or contribute to cross-team projects that improve reliability, scalability, infrastructure efficiency, and developer experience.
Collaborate with backend teams to improve the use and performance of infrastructure.
Become and serve as an Incident Commander, and train others in the role.
Participate in the EU side of a new follow-the-sun on-call rotation.
Help the organization navigate tradeoffs between reliability and other goals.
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 cost analysis and cost reduction.
Solid experience with Helm, Terraform, and CI/CD.
Project management skills.
Software engineering experience; Golang and performance engineering experience are advantages.
Experience with Kafka or another high-volume distributed system.
Excellent written and spoken communication skills, including adapting communication to the audience and providing direct feedback.
Familiarity with observability concepts such as SLOs and instrumentation, and with data-driven decision-making.
Comfort operating in ambiguity with a bias toward action and experimentation.
Interest in both the technical and human aspects of reliability engineering.
Experience working in geographically distributed teams.

Fully distributed, remote-first work arrangement.
Unlimited paid time off.
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 regardless of path to parenthood.
Annual development allowance.
Generous equity with an employee-friendly stock program.
Transparent pay levels based on experience.

201-500 employees