about 1 year ago
Base Salary
$150k - $280k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the reliability of Speak’s infrastructure across GCP, Kubernetes, and Node.js/Postgres stack.
- Lead response for P0/P1 incidents and drive postmortems to learn from outages.
- Improve observability, alerting, and on-call processes to catch issues proactively.
- Define and drive adoption of SLOs/SLAs for core systems and services.
- Build tools and frameworks to enhance reliability for product engineers.
- Collaborate with Product, Engineering, and ML teams to ensure reliability is integrated into all builds.
- Set short and long term roadmaps to ensure stability for the growing user base.
- Act as a thought leader and coach on platform and infrastructure engineering principles.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, Platform, or infrastructure-focused engineering roles.
- Strong experience with GCP, Kubernetes, Terraform, Node.js, Python, PostgreSQL, Redis, and observability tools.
- Proven track record of improving reliability and scaling high traffic systems.
- Strong incident management and root cause analysis skills.
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and deployment safety tooling.
- Strong systems thinking to identify failure points and harden services.
- Deep sense of ownership and desire to enhance infrastructure as a force multiplier.
Benefits
- Join a rapidly growing team with significant impact on the company's direction.
- Work with a supportive and respectful team that values personal growth.
- Opportunity to engage with users globally and travel to various markets.
- Make a meaningful impact on people's lives through language learning.