Senior Site Reliability Engineer [Vancouver]

Taurus SA; Vancouver; Hybrid; Confidential; Full time

Job summary

An innovative firm in the digital asset sector is seeking a talented Site Reliability Engineer to join their Vancouver team. This role involves managing production environments, ensuring operational excellence, and collaborating with engineering teams to deliver scalable software solutions. As part of a skilled team, you will work at the intersection of finance and technology, contributing to exciting projects in a fast-paced and entrepreneurial environment. If you are eager to make a significant impact and grow in your career, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Benefits

Generous vacation

Hybrid remote work

Benefits package

Opportunity in digital assets and finance

Experienced team

Fast-paced learning environment

Qualifications

• 4-5 years of experience in deploying and maintaining products in complex environments.
• Strong knowledge of modern DevOps tooling and software development.

Responsibilities

• Manage production environment, ensuring operational excellence and system health.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to resolve client issues and enhance customer satisfaction.

Skills

Software Development

Client-Facing Communication

DevOps Practices

Incident Management

Problem-Solving

Tools

Linux

Kubernetes

Docker

Ansible

Terraform

Python

GoLang

Bash/Shell Scripting

Jira Service Management

Job description

Are you ready to take on an entrepreneurial challenge in the digital asset industry? Taurus, a global leader in digital asset infrastructure, has an exciting opportunity for you.

Founded in April 2018, Taurus provides enterprise-grade solutions to issue, custody, and trade digital assets, including cryptocurrencies, tokenized assets, NFTs, and digital currencies. Trusted by a wide range of financial institutions—from systemic banks to broker-dealers—Taurus also operates TDX, a marketplace for private assets and tokenized securities.

As we expand globally, we're seeking ambitious individuals to join our team. If you're eager to make a significant impact in the digital asset sector, we want to hear from you.

Tasks

We are seeking talented SREs to build our Solutions Engineering team in Vancouver. You are a customer-focused professional with a demonstrated history of maintaining production environments. You are confident working in managed services environments and handling production incidents. You’ll partner with clients to uncover requirements and work closely with our engineering teams, creating roadmaps, architecting solutions, and executing on them. If you are interested in cutting-edge technologies and want to build reliable and scalable software solutions, we want to hear from you.

Responsibilities

• Run our managed services production environment by taking a holistic view of system health and defining, developing, and deploying the necessary telemetry.
• Ensure operational excellence of Taurus' managed services through software engineering.
• Improve the reliability & operability by eliminating software defects and adding scalability and performance improvements directly to the Taurus product code base.
• Provide ongoing support of existing environments such as incident management, code upgrades, health checks, and optimization projects. This may also include assisting our partner support organizations with break/fix assistance in severe escalation situations.
• Advise clients on API best practices when creating necessary middleware during integration.
• Work closely with members of the engineering teams to quickly resolve any client issues and constantly drive customer satisfaction.

Requirements

• 4-5 years of hands-on experience in deploying, integrating, and maintaining products in complex environments and organizations – experience in financial services is a plus.
• 2-5 years of experience in software development.
• Experience in a client-facing role with strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience maintaining high availability in remote production environments and familiarity working with VDIs and virtualization technologies.
• Proven experience in various DevOps build and testing processes, releases management, and product lifecycle management.
• Strong knowledge of modern DevOps tooling (Linux, Kubernetes, RedHat Openshift, Docker, Ansible, Terraform, Python, GoLang, YAML, Bash/shell scripting).
• Experience maintaining production environments in a managed service or SaaS environment.
• Eager to learn, highly focused on the target, and team results-oriented.

Bonus Points

• Experience with additional programming languages (Java, Python, Rust, Javascript, etc.).
• Knowledge/experience with relational databases.
• Experience with service management/support tools (Jira Service Management, Zendesk, or similar).

Benefits

• Generous vacation.
• Hybrid remote work with a flexible and small team.
• Benefits package.
• An opportunity to work at the intersection of digital assets and finance.
• A skilled and experienced team, including world-renowned experts.
• A fast-paced learning environment, entrepreneurial spirit, and a great culture.

As the company evolves in a dynamic and innovative environment, its DNA is based on merit. As such, there will be significant growth opportunities for candidates with an open and deliver mindset. We are an equal opportunity employer.

Note

We will only consider direct applications from Vancouver or surrounding cities. We will not consider applications via agencies.
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