Senior Site Reliability Engineer

GlossGenius; Electoral Area A; Remote; CAD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A technology company in Canada is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join its Infrastructure Engineering team. The ideal candidate will have experience with AWS and a focus on maintaining reliable and scalable infrastructure. Responsibilities include driving operational excellence and collaborating with engineers on incident management. This role offers flexible PTO, health insurance, and professional development stipends.

Benefits

Flexible PTO

Health & dental insurance

Generous parental leave

Retirement Savings Plan

Professional Development stipend

Home office support

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in related roles.
• Experience with AWS or other cloud platforms.
• Knowledge of IP networking, DNS, CDN, load balancing, and firewalls.

Responsibilities

• Support a reliable and scalable infrastructure platform.
• Help scale the AWS cloud footprint and contribute technically.
• Drive incident management practices across engineering.

Skills

Cloud technologies

AWS

Infrastructure as Code

Monitoring and alerting

Container technology (Docker, Kubernetes)

High-level programming languages (Typescript, Ruby, Python)

Job description

About GlossGenius

GlossGenius is building an ecosystem enabling entrepreneurs to succeed. We empower small business owners to focus on being creators, not admins, by offering a range of business management tools including booking and scheduling, marketing, analytics, payment processing and much more.

Over 75,000 small business owners have chosen to rely on GlossGenius every day to run their entire set of business operations. Joining its powerful, intuitive platform with its vibrant, distinguished brand, GlossGenius is the ideal combination of a fintech, SMB software, and consumer company all in one.

About the Role

In this role, you'll have the opportunity to join GlossGenius as one of the first Senior Site Reliability Engineer as part of the Infrastructure Engineering team. Infrastructure Engineering is the backbone of our technical infrastructure at GlossGenius, with a dual focus on elevating the developer experience and ensuring the reliability of our production environment. In essence, Infrastructure Engineering is about creating an environment where developers thrive, armed with powerful tools, while also ensuring the robustness and scalability of the infrastructure that underpins our digital ventures.

As a Site Reliability Engineer, you will play a key role in maintaining reliable, secure, scalable, and highly available infrastructure and applications that empower over 75,000 Service Professionals to run their businesses. You will drive operational excellence while scaling our AWS footprint and fostering close collaboration with product and engineering teams.

You will report to the Senior Engineering Manager, Infrastructure, and can be based remotely in the Greater Toronto or Vancouver Area.

What You’ll Do

• Working with Product and Engineering peers to support an infrastructure platform that is reliable, scalable, secure and reduces manual toil
• Help GlossGenius scale its AWS cloud footprint, contributing to the technical direction
• Build tools to help engineers quickly identify problems, wherever they occur in the stack
• Drive and shape incident management practices across engineering
• Improve and augment the monitoring and alerting platform, and act as an SME for other teams wishing to have better visibility into their services
• Spread SRE culture throughout GlossGenius
• Understand industry and company-wide trends to help assess and develop new technologies
• Collaborate with the broader engineering team to ensure optimal application performance and scalability to build highly resilient systems
• Own problems from end to end, managing complexity, and engaging directly with stakeholders to think through everything from business impact to reliability and operability, to security; always approaching situations with a bias to action

What We’re Looking For

4+ years of experience working with cloud technologies in Production Engineer, Cloud Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer, or DevOps equivalent roles

Demonstrated experience working with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc), having designed, built, and maintained cloud platforms that run production-grade services and traffic

Demonstrated experience with infrastructure-as-code principles and development

Knowledge of IP networking, DNS, CDN, load balancing, HTTP, and firewalls

Experience building and maintaining cloud-first monitoring, logging, and alerting infrastructure that supports 24 / 7 enterprise platforms

Participating in on-call rotations

Experience with container technology using Docker and Kubernetes

The ability to write high-quality code in a high-level programming language (e.g. Typescript, Ruby, Python)

Experience executing projects from start to finish and are outcome-oriented

Benefits & Perks

Flexible PTO

Competitive health & dental insurance options, with premiums covered by GG

Generous, fully-paid parental leave policy

Retirement Savings Plan

Professional Development - employees receive a yearly stipend for approved learning and educational-related expenses

Home office support

Team Bonding opportunities - as a distributed team, being able to build meaningful bonds both virtually and in person is incredibly important to us! We are constantly evaluating how we accomplish this and currently, teams are given opportunities to gather in person throughout the year

At GlossGenius, we celebrate our differences and are committed to creating a workplace where all employees feel supported and empowered to do their best work. We believe this benefits not only our employees but our product, customers, and community as well. GlossGenius is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer.