Site Reliability Engineer

LoyaltyLion; London; Remote; GBP 55,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

LoyaltyLion is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to bolster its rapid growth. This fully remote role involves ensuring platform reliability, supporting data provisioning, and collaborating closely with engineering teams to optimize application performance. Candidates should possess strong AWS experience and infrastructure management skills to thrive in a dynamic e-commerce environment.

Benefits

Flexible working

International remote working (up to 30 days)

25 days holiday + bank holidays

Equity for permanent employees

Home office budget

Cycle scheme

Private medical insurance

Competitive learning and development budget

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience with AWS.
• In-depth knowledge of Terraform.
• Experience with DataDog and observability monitoring.

Responsibilities

• Deliver secure, maintainable infrastructure.
• Conduct performance tuning for optimized database performance.
• Automate tasks to reduce manual work for engineers.

Skills

AWS

Infrastructure as Code

DevOps Practices

Observability

Performance Tuning

Documentation

Tools

Terraform

DataDog

Docker

Postgres

Redshift

Ansible

Bash

Ruby

Python

Job description

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About Us LoyaltyLion is a data-driven loyalty and engagement platform trusted by thousands of ecommerce brands worldwide. Merchants use LoyaltyLion when they want a loyalty program that is proven to increase customer engagement, retention and spend. Stores using LoyaltyLion typically generate at least $15 for every $1 they spend on the platform.Today LoyaltyLion works with over 10,000 small and medium sized retailers. Our mission is to help them succeed in the age of Amazon, where they may not be able to compete on price and logistics but can offer a better customer experience. An experience where customers feel valued, rather than just another number.It’s been an incredible two years for LoyaltyLion. We closed $ early last year and another $12m this year, and we’ve grown from 40 employees to over 100. We’ve built out our Leadership team, recruiting a CTO, CFO and Director of Product amongst other senior hires and we continue to scale quickly, achieving spots in both the Deloitte Fast 50 and the FT1000. This is just the beginning of our inflection point. The Role We are looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to join our team and support LoyaltyLion's growth. Working with our SRE Lead, you will be responsible for ensuring the reliability, availability, and performance of our platform's infrastructure and systems. You'll also support our Data team in the provisioning and tuning of our Data platform, and our development teams in optimising their applications and CI/CD pipelines for peak performance and efficiency.Please note this is a fully remote position, within the UTC-0 and UTC+2 timezones

Some of the things you'll be doing

Delivering clean, architecturally sound, maintainable and secure infrastructure

Working closely with AWS infrastructure, particularly focusing on data services, to support database scalability and availability

Work with LoyaltyLion engineering teams to support the infrastructure they need and the platforms on which their services run

Conducting performance tuning to optimise database performance and enhance data processing efficiency

Implementing observability systems for infrastructure and data to ensure reliability and availability, find areas for improvement, and proactively access risks to the stability or security of our platform

Maintain new and existing infrastructure with code, by writing well-designed Terraform code to make the best use of our AWS infrastructure.

Documenting and driving the adoption of DevOps best practices across the wider engineering team

Conducting proofs-of-concept on new and emerging technologies and evaluating the fit to LoyaltyLion

Taking part in honest and transparent blame-free post-mortems on incidents we have, so we can learn from them and prevent them from happening again

Automate and accelerate - reduce manual tasks and allow all of LoyaltyLion engineers to concentrate on building exciting new features

Build, measure, learn - implement the best observability tools to continually improve LoyaltyLion performance

What we’re looking for

4+ years of experience with AWS

In-depth knowledge of defining infrastructure as code using Terraform

Experience in agile development practices

Observability & Monitoring using DataDog & Cloudwatch or similar systems

Bonus points for real-time low latency high-frequency transaction-based systems experience

Extra bonus points for experience with Redshift, Glue, Airflow, Athena or any other frameworks and tools for data engineering

Ability to diagnose problems at any level (Client, HTTP/Network, Server, Database, OS)

Ability to write clear, concise documentation

Our Stack

AWS

Docker

ECS (Fargate)

DataDog

PagerDuty

Postgres, Redshift

Infra as code: Terraform, Ansible, Packer

Scripting: Bash, Ruby, Python

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The Engineering team works on a fully remote basis. However you do have the option of working from our shiny new HQ in Farringdon. Interview Process TA ScreenTechnical Overview + Value based interview Tech Session + Q&A with Engineering TeamMeet the CTO Benefits •Flexible working• International Remote working (up to 30 days in each holiday year)•25 days holiday + bank holidays + carry 5 days holiday over into the next holiday year• All permanent employees get equity to recognise the valuable contribution you'll make to our growth•Company days out and events, and team socials•Home office budget•Cycle scheme•Employee Assistance Program•Private medical insurance•Competitive learning and development budget•The opportunity to join at a major inflection point – ecommerce is booming and with it, the demand for loyalty software like LoyaltyLion•Macbook, magic keyboard, and any other tech or equipment you need to do a great job