Senior Site Reliability Engineer

About the company

A small, founder-led application monitoring platform with a highly capable engineering team. Profitable for years before a recent investment from a private equity firm, and still debt-free.

The role

This company runs its own bare-metal infrastructure, leased directly from data centre providers rather than sitting on a major public cloud, giving tighter control over performance and keeping hosting costs down. The platform has run stably for years, built largely by the current SRE, and we're now looking for a Lead SRE to work alongside him, take on more ownership, and help modernise it from here, including supporting a planned US expansion.

This is a hands-on technical lead role, not people management. You'll join the on-call rotation and be trusted to own infrastructure end to end.

What you'll be doing

• Owning and evolving a bare-metal, data-centre-based infrastructure estate
• Working with Kafka and Redis as part of the core stack
• Driving infrastructure-as-code, deployment and provisioning improvements
• Acting as a senior technical voice and mentor in a small, high-calibre team
• Supporting a new US hosting region and a longer-term move towards more decomposed, containerised deployments

What we're looking for

• Strong traditional infrastructure background: Linux, networking, DNS, bare-metal and data-centre environments
• Solid infrastructure-as-code experience; Ansible preferred, but strong Terraform or similar is welcome if you can pick up Ansible quickly
• Comfortable outside a purely cloud-native stack
• Prior SRE, platform or infrastructure leadership experience
• A team player first, technical expert second

Nice to have: Rust or Go, familiarity with major cloud providers, Ruby.

What's on offer

• Fully remote – Europe
• Twice-yearly performance bonus
• Equity
• Health insurance
• Unlimited PTO
• Conference and learning budget

Please apply now if you are meeting the above criteria or contact Andrew Harrison directly.