Senior Software Development Engineer (SRE)

Altium LLC; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Altium is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to ensure the reliability and performance of the Altium Cloud Platforms. Based in Cambridge, you will lead improvements in observability, automate resilience, and partner with engineering to scale our SaaS products across regions.

Join a team that champions IaC, incident response, and proactive monitoring with tools like Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform, and NewRelic.

Qualifications

• Candidates should have strong SRE/DevOps practices and cloud experience.
• Experience with observability tooling and incident management.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and IaC.

Responsibilities

• Improve observability with logging, monitoring and APM to ensure reliability.
• Develop reliability frameworks for SaaS products across regions.
• Educate engineering teams on reliability best practices and shared responsibility.
• Support incident response and post-incident analysis for continuous improvement.
• Contribute to system design, platform management, and capacity planning.
• Collaborate with DevOps to promote IaC and streamline deployments.

Skills

Cloud architecture

SRE practices

Observability

Incident response

Automation

DevOps

Kubernetes

AWS

CI/CD

Tools

NewRelic

ELK

Grafana

PagerDuty

OTEL

Jenkins

GitLab

GitHub

ArgoCD

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

Join Altium as a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to ensure the reliability and performance of the Altium Cloud Platforms.,

• Understanding how an Altium Cloud Platform works
• Pioneer improvements in observability, including logging, monitoring, and application performance management (APM), ensuring system reliability and proactive issue detection.
• Develop and implement reliability frameworks and patterns that standardize and elevate the resilience of our SaaS products across multiple regions and environments.
• Cultivate a shared responsibility model where the SRE team collaborates with and educates engineering teams on reliability best practices.
• Contribute to incident response and management, ensuring rapid resolution, clear stakeholder communication, and post‑incident analysis for continuous improvement.
• Participate in system design consulting, platform management, infrastructure upgrades and capacity planning.
• Partner closely with engineering and development teams to enhance product stability, observability, and manageability through best practices in reliability engineering.
• Partner closely with DevOps/Operations, drive automation initiatives, promote Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and streamline deployment processes to improve operational efficiency and scalability.
• Champion Service-Oriented Organization (SOO) principles to ensure accountability and clarity in service ownership.
• 6+ years in SRE, DevOps or related role in a large-scale environment
• Software development experience (ideally working with and as a .NET developer)
• Strong understanding of SDLC, microservice and HA architecture
• Observability - NewRelic, ELK, Grafana, PagerDuty, OTEL or similar
• Experience with Kubernetes clusters in production setting, AWS, IOC
• Experience with operational tasks
• Knowledge of CI-CD tooling Jenkins, Gitlab, GitHub, ArgoCD or similar
• Knowledge of IaaC Terraform, Ansible
• Basic knowledge of networking fundamentals
• Experience with relational databases (mysql, postgres) as a plus

Why Altium?

Altium is transforming the way electronics are designed and built. From startups to world's technology giants, our digital platforms give more power to PCB designers, supply chain, and manufacturing, letting them collaborate as never before.

Constant innovation has created a transformative technology, unique in its space

More than 30,000 companies and 100,000 electronics engineers worldwide use Altium

We are growing, debt‑free, and financially strong, with the resources to become #1 in the EDA industry, Altium Limited, a part of the Renesas Group and headquartered in San Diego, California, is a global software company accelerating the pace of electronics innovation. We are redefining electronic product creation in a software‑defined world with our industry‑first cloud-based platform that unites every stakeholder and phase of electronics development.

From startups to world's technology giants, our digital platforms give more power to PCB designers, supply chain, and manufacturing, letting them collaborate as never before.

At Altium, our teams are empowered to innovate, collaborate globally, and help create the future of electronics development. We believe in rewarding our employees with a competitive benefits package alongside their salary. More information will be provided during the hiring process.

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