Site Reliability Engineer Reamote

Minimal; Canada; Remote; CAD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Remote-first work environment

Equity stake in the company

Flexible PTO

Job summary

Minimal is building a secure, reproducible foundation for software, and we’re growing our SRE team with people excited about modern workflows. Our stack includes GCP and Cloudflare, with Go, Rust, and Typescript as core technologies.

You’ll own and improve cloud services, SLOs, observability, security, CI/CD, and on-call duties from day one in a remote-first environment. You’ll join a hands-on team that collaborates closely, learns, and challenges the status quo while automating operational

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in a similar role.
• Strong experience with GCP and cloud infrastructure.
• Proficient in Python, Bash, or Shell scripting.
• Hands-on with Docker and Kubernetes in production.
• Knowledge of CI/CD tooling (Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions).

Responsibilities

• Build and improve automated pipelines for building, testing, and deploying code.
• Provision, manage, and scale infrastructure on GCP and Cloudflare, following established patterns.
• Help manage third-party SaaS tools and access.
• Extend observability tooling to monitor health and performance; keep alerts actionable.
• Share on-call rotation; troubleshoot, perform root-cause analysis, and refine incident response.
• Own specific areas of infrastructure; promote knowledge sharing across the team.
• Script and build tools to automate operational tasks.
• Apply security best practices across infrastructure and applications.
• Create and maintain clear documentation for processes and systems.
• Collaborate with development teams to optimize designs and ensure reliable releases.

Skills

GCP

Python

Bash/Shell

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Ansible

Prometheus

Grafana

Linux

Tools

Jenkins

GitLab CI/CD

GitHub Actions

Job description

We’re building a secure, reproducible foundation for software everywhere, that makes building, maintaining, and releasing software predictable and effortless for everyone. We’re looking to carefully grow our team with people that are excited about building a workflow that feels lightyears ahead of everything else.

Our technology stack is built on GCP and Cloudflare using Go, Rust, Typescript,

The role

You’ll join our SRE team in taking real ownership of systems from day one; with a strong partner to collaborate with, learn from, and challenge. Together you’ll be hands-on with:

• Running and improving our cloud services on GCP and Cloudflare
• Meeting and refining our SLOs
• Improving our monitoring, logging and alerting
• Maintaining a strong security posture
• Owning and evolving parts of our CI/CD systems
• Sharing incident response and on-call
• Automating all-the-things
• Helping manage our Google Workspace and other third-party SaaS systems

What you'll do

• Build and improve automated pipelines for building, testing, and deploying code.
• Provision, manage, and scale infrastructure on GCP and Cloudflare, building on the patterns our SRE lead has established and helping evolve them.
• Help manage our third-party SaaS tools and access.
• Extend our observability tooling to monitor system health and performance, and keep alerts actionable.
• Share an on-call rotation with our SRE lead. Troubleshoot, resolve, and conduct root cause analysis for production issues, and help refine our incident response processes as we grow.
• Take end-to-end ownership of specific areas of our infrastructure, so knowledge and responsibility are shared across the team rather than held by one person.
• Script and build tools to automate operational tasks.
• Apply security best practices across infrastructure and applications.
• Create and maintain clear documentation for processes and systems.
• Work closely with development teams to optimize designs, ensure smooth releases and reliable applications.

What you’ll bring to the role

• 3+ years of experience in a similar role
• Experience with GCP
• Experience in Python, Bash, or Shell scripting.
• Experience with CI/CD tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions.
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• You champion Infrastructure as Code and have experience with Terraform and Ansible.
• Strong working knowledge of Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack.
• Strong understanding of OSes (Linux), networking, and distributed systems.
• You work well alongside a senior teammate: you pick up established patterns quickly, ask good questions, and are comfortable proposing better ways of doing things.
• Comfort owning work independently in a remote team, with clear written communication.

Nice to have

• Experience at an early-stage startup
• Experience as part of a small SRE, platform or infrastructure team
• Background in security, developer tooling, open source and package management

What we offer

• Competitive base compensation
• Equity stake in the company
• Health insurance
• Remote-first work environment
• Flexible PTO

Pay range

See our approximate salary ranges below that represent the anticipated low and high end of the salary for this position. Actual salaries will vary and are based on a multitude of non-discriminatory factors including final role leveling decisions, a candidate’s relevant work experiences/skills, and geographic location. Salary is one component of our total compensation package.

Canadian Range: $90,000 - $120,000 CAD

Equal opportunity

Minimal is an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

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