Staff Site Reliability Engineer

The role

You will shape infrastructure reliability, developer experience, and platform capabilities. You will design and maintain scalable AWS infrastructure and build tools to help product engineers operate independently.

What you will do

• Shape approach to infrastructure reliability, developer experience and platform capabilities
• Design and maintain scalable, automated AWS infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code
• Build tools and platform services for product engineers
• Partner with engineering teams to design resilient, secure and cost-effective systems
• Improve engineering practices and delivery processes
• Champion observability, high availability, incident management and disaster recovery
• Apply systems thinking to complex problems
• Lead incident response and drive lasting improvements
• Mentor engineers and influence reliability practices
• Participate in on-call rotation

Required qualifications

• Strong AWS experience operating highly available, scalable production systems
• Experience in a SaaS or product-led environment
• Strong Infrastructure as Code experience with Terraform and configuration management tooling
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, ECS and Linux systems
• Ability to code in Python, Ruby or Go
• Complex Shell scripting
• Experience with observability, incident management, disaster recovery and security practices
• Experience with datastores such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis or DynamoDB
• Cloud cost optimisation
• Understanding of Agile, continuous delivery and testing
• Strong communication, judgement and prioritisation skills

Benefits

• Lightspeed share scheme
• Unlimited paid time off policy
• Work remotely from anywhere in the world for up to 60 days per year
• Flexible working policy
• Health and wellness benefit of $500 per year
• Mental health online platform and counselling & coaching services
• Paid leave and assistance for new parents
• Paid Volunteer day
• Premium cover if you sign up for health insurance with Southern Cross
• Complimentary breakfast and lunch options, fresh fruits, snacks, and beverages
• Secure, full-time parking facilities
• Subsidised public transportation covering up to 75% of commuting costs

Before you apply

• Applicants must disclose any criminal convictions
• Conduct criminal record checks

About the company

Lightspeed is a commerce platform that helps merchants innovate to simplify, scale, and provide exceptional customer experiences. Founded in 2005, the company is dual-listed on the NYSE and TSX.