Site Reliability Engineer — Observability & Data Platform

Selby Jennings; Hong Kong; On-site; HKD 480,000 - 720,000; Full time

Job summary

Selby Jennings in Hong Kong is seeking a Mid-Level Site Reliability Engineer to support mission-critical production systems and observability platforms. This role blends SRE duties with data platform engineering to boost reliability, monitoring, and scalability in a complex distributed environment.

You will work with engineering teams to improve platform stability and operational visibility, implementing automation and cloud-native practices across real-time data pipelines.

Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience building observability and monitoring in production environments.
• Strong incident management, troubleshooting, and RCA skills.
• Hands-on with Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Datadog, CloudWatch or similar.
• Experience deploying via GitLab CI, Jenkins, or GitHub Actions.

Responsibilities

• Own and enhance end-to-end observability across production systems.
• Design dashboards, alerts, and operational metrics.
• Investigate incidents, diagnose root causes, implement fixes.
• Manage deployments through CI/CD pipelines and GitOps workflows.
• Operate and optimize Kubernetes workloads in cloud environments.
• Provision and maintain infrastructure with Infrastructure-as-Code.
• Build and support near real-time data pipelines and telemetry platforms.
• Design data quality controls and optimise analytical databases for large-scale querying.
• Develop and improve SQL-based analytics and reporting capabilities.
• Participate in a shared on-call rotation supporting critical production services.

Skills

Python

Java

Scala

Rust

SQL

Incident management

Observability

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK

Datadog

CloudWatch

GitLab CI

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Terraform

Kubernetes

ClickHouse

BigQuery

Druid

Redshift

Kafka

SQS

Airflow

Job description

Selby Jennings in Hong Kong is seeking a Mid-Level Site Reliability Engineer to support mission-critical production systems and observability platforms. This role blends SRE duties with data platform engineering to boost reliability, monitoring, and scalability in a complex distributed environment.

You will work with engineering teams to improve platform stability and operational visibility, implementing automation and cloud-native practices across real-time data pipelines.