Senior Site Reliability Engineer (fmd)

Paris - France

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 17 days ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Help us use technology to make a big green dent in the universe!

Krakenpowers some of the most innovative global developments in energy.

Were a technology company focused on creating a smart sustainable energy system. From optimising renewable generation creating a more intelligent grid and enabling utilities to provide excellent customer experiences our operating system for energy is transforming the industry around the world in a way that benefits everyone.

Its a really exciting time in energy. Help us make a real impact on shaping a better more sustainable future.

Our Global Platform Engineering Reliability group is responsible for architecting developing and maintaining the resilient and scalable infrastructure that power and support our platforms.

As a Site Reliability Engineer within the newly created Product Reliability team youll be responsible for ensuring the availability performance and scalability of the products on our platform.

Your proficiency in supporting products that serve millions of customers will ensure stability and high performance for our brands and clients.

Youll keep up with best practices in building products for scale. Your communication skills and attention to detail will be indispensable as you pinpoint areas for enhancement ensure optimal product performance and continuously improve our reliability and efficiency.

What youll do

Teach and support product teams on best practices for reliability implementation patterns and effective usage of our existing platforms

Support product teams in improving the performance and availability of their systems

Be hands-on in code and infrastructure to help product teams with reliability improvements

Provide comprehensive feedback to the wider Platform group on improvements to be made to core infrastructure based on observations and first-hand experience in the code base

Support the build-out of proof-of-concept requirements in product teams as needed to evolve application deployment architecture to align with business growth as well as enhance scalability and system resilience

Collaborate with product teams to support the release of new features and services ensuring adherence to reliability and performance standards

Guide product teams in designing systems for resilience and graceful failure under heavy load

Assist application teams with post-incident tasks and follow-ups and contribute to the creation and review of post-mortem documentation

Analyse incident metrics to identify trends and potential improvements communicating these insights to the product teams

Help solve interesting and difficult problems. Theres a great opportunity for disruption in the global energy market

What youll have

Great communication skills working effectively with developers product managers and other business stakeholders to understand design and deliver impactful projects and reliability improvements

Proficient using AWS; we use a lot of different AWS services and not just the standard few

Strong Python skills; particularly with Django the Django ORM and Celery

Good expertise in multiple of the following areas:

PostgreSQL or a similar RDBMS particularly in Amazon RDS at scale

Docker and Kubernetes; we use Amazon EKS in production

Datadog or a similar logging/monitoring tool

Messaging queues event-driven async processing or similar technologies - we use RabbitMQ

Terraform or a similar infrastructure-as-code tool

Experience with a Linux distribution

Previous experience working in small highly-autonomous teams

What will help

Previous experience as a Site Reliability Engineer

Experience working on SaaS platforms including engaging product teams to ensure up-skilling and knowledge sharing across teams

Experience managing and supporting a large scale internet facing service

Experience in responding to incidents and outages writing technical incident reports and organising incident retrospectives

Experience working with very large relational databases

Experience in using service level objectives to improve application performance

A proactive innovative mindset

Kraken is a certified Great Place to Work in France Germany Spain Japan and the UK we are one of the Best Workplaces on Glassdoor with a score of 4.7. Check out our Welcome to the Jungle site (FR/EN) to learn more about our teams and culture.

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Help us use technology to make a big green dent in the universe!Krakenpowers some of the most innovative global developments in energy.Were a technology company focused on creating a smart sustainable energy system. From optimising renewable generation creating a more intelligent grid and enabling u...