Site Reliability Engineer (Warsaw)

The Opportunity:

Step into a key role as a Site Reliability Engineer at Beyond Identity's new office in Warsaw, Poland.The ideal candidate for the position will be a self-starter who is driven to find innovative ways to improve the product. The candidate will be results-oriented, passionate in the improvement of the user experience, and a critical and strategic thinker.  The candidate is highly organized, can multitask and meet aggressive deadlines, and is a team-player and team-builder who can make meaningful and long-lasting connections with others. 

The candidate must have the ability to assess and analyze a wide range of information to draw conclusions on how to improve the security of our systems. The candidate will be a member of a growing SRE team and will be expected to collaborate in a distributed team environment. You will provide strong leadership through technical excellence and mentoring, and your contributions will be key to the success of Beyond Identity. This hybrid role requires 3 days per week in our Warsaw office, fostering collaboration and team synergy under the leadership of the Engineering Manager based in Poland.

What You Can Expect to Do:

• Work with a highly collaborative team to build and maintain a secure, reliable, and scalable infrastructure platform that powers our microservices

• Build tools for automating code builds and create GitOps workflows for continuous delivery

• Oversee the complete application lifecycle including developing, building, testing, and releasing code

• Implement and integrate best practice security controls with both application code and infrastructure

• Identify and create service level indicators (SLIs) using historical data. Create realistic. service level objectives (SLOs) in order to meet SLAs

• Establish monitoring tools and the system wide observability necessary to support rapid response during service level interruptions

• Participate in On-Call activities, high-priority incident response, and disaster recovery activities

• Participate in post-mortem activities to improve overall company resolution times

• Have an “automate first” mentality around things such as incident response, infrastructure, monitoring, and play-books

• Provide technical leadership through mentoring, a commitment to technical excellence, accountability, transparency and skills development

• Stay up to date with the latest application SRE developments and trends to continually improve internal processes and tooling

• Assess current applications and architecture to determine where Site Reliability Engineering methodologies can be meaningfully applied

• Create an open, honest, accountable and collaborative team environment, providing timely and meaningful feedback

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or similar

• 3+ years of experience with programming including full stack development as well as system design

• 3+ years of experience with Agile, Site Reliability Engineering practices

• Demonstrated operational experience successfully supporting large scale cloud deployments; including areas such incident management, on-call, metrics and monitoring, and general observability

• Understanding of systems programming and networking; Global Service Load Balancing ( GLSB ), BGP, Network Redundancy, DNS, routing algorithms.

• Deep operational experience managing multi-region, multi-cloud large scale infrastructure (Cloud certifications is a plus)

• Proven experience implementing scalability, availability, and resiliency principles

• Proven record applying SRE principles and tools used for Cloud-Native Applications including Terraform, ArgoCD, Microservice Architecture, Kubernetes, Docker, Istio, Envoy, etc.

• Experience managing and deploying large scale cloud databases such as AWS Aurora, AWS Dynamo, Azure Cosmo, etc.

• Proven aptitude in managing multiple tasks in a fast-paced, dynamic environment while meeting critical SLAs and deadlines

Pluses:

• Experience with the use and deployment of Nginx, Postgres, Redis, Memcached, GitLab/GitHub

• Experience with deployment tools such as Spinnaker, GitLab, GitHub, Jenkins

• AWS Certified DevOps professional certification 

• AWS Solutions Architect Professional/Associate certification

• AWS SysOps Administrator Associate

• Any security certifications

Benefits:

• Health Care Plan

• Paid Time Off (Vacation, Sick & Public Holidays)

• Family Leave (Maternity, Paternity)

• Training & Development

• Work From Home