Site Reliability Engineer - Canada Wide - Remote

Newton; Toronto; Remote; CAD 100,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading innovative tech company in Toronto is looking for a Site Reliability Engineer. In this pivotal role, you will enhance the reliability and resilience of critical services, manage incidents, and drive operational excellence. You’ll collaborate with engineers to implement improvements and ensure systems are scalable and efficient. This company values diversity and welcomes applicants from all backgrounds, providing an inclusive workspace and necessary accommodations.

Qualifications

• Experience designing and operating scalable systems in cloud environments.
• Handled on-call shifts for critical systems.
• Familiarity with chaos engineering concepts.

Responsibilities

• Implement improvements to reliability and performance of infrastructure.
• Manage incidents and automate processes.
• Provide support via on-call rotation.

Skills

AWS or similar cloud environment experience

On-call experience with critical systems

Experience with chaos engineering

Debugging live production systems

Scripting and/or development skills

Job description

Say hello to Newton! We're changing how Canadians trade crypto. Our goal? To make financial freedom something everyone can achieve. We give our customers the tools and knowledge they need to navigate the crypto world.

At Newton, you'll work with a remote team spread across Canada, but you'll never feel distant. Ready to be part of something meaningful? Join a team that’s all about pushing boundaries and getting things done.

Some of our values:

• Customer first mindset - Commitment to integrity and transparency to our users!
• A dynamic team fueled by collaboration uniting our strengths to overcome any obstacles. Together we build success. We persevere, adapt, and come back stronger, turning obstacles into opportunities.
• We strive for continuous improvement and embrace creativity and encourage experimentation. We push the boundaries of what’s possible and continuously explore new ideas, technologies, and solutions.

Role Overview

We're looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to improve the reliability, resilience, and operational readiness of our services. You’ll work closely with engineering teams to improve system design and operational excellence. You’ll help prevent incidents, lead response efforts, and drive improvements through post-mortems. Your mission: ensure our systems are reliable, scalable, and resilient.

Responsibilities

• Implementing the improvements to the reliability, fault tolerance, scalability, and performance of our infrastructure
• Managing incidents using your technical know-how to involve the appropriate teams and automate away manual practices
• Providing support to our critical services by responding to automated alerts through our on-call rotation
• Define and maintain SLIs, SLOs,SLA, and error budgets to guide reliability decisions
• Improve observability across our systems (metrics, logs, tracing) to reduce time to detection and resolution
• Make production issues easier to detect, troubleshoot, and resolve
• Improving monitoring, alerting, dashboards, tracing and runbooks for critical services
• Leading postmortems and follow-up actions to reduce repeat incidents

Who you are

• You have experience designing and operating scalable, reliable systems in AWS or a similar cloud environment
• You have handled on-call shifts for critical systems
• You are experienced with chaos engineering (i.e. Gremlin)
• You are able to dive in and debug live production systems
• You enjoy working in a growing system, and writing and deploying code without any downtime
• You have experience scripting and/or development (i.e. Linux Shell, Python, Javascript, Java)
• You are a self-starter, taking initiative in an ambiguous space preferably within a start-up environment

At Newton, we celebrate our inclusive work environment and welcome members of all backgrounds and perspectives to apply. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations and will work with you to meet your needs. If you are a person with a disability and require assistance during the application process, please don’t hesitate to reach out!