SRE for Real-Time Streaming & Observability

Pulsar; Hong Kong; On-site; HKD 400,000 - 700,000; Full time

Job summary

Pulsar in Hong Kong is seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer focused on observability and streaming data pipelines. You will own the platform’s end-to-end monitoring, instrument services, build Grafana dashboards and alerts that clearly indicate what broke and what to check next, and participate in on-call rotations.

The role requires deploying and running production systems on Kubernetes (EKS), managing infrastructure as code with Terraform, and delivering changes through CI/CD and

Qualifications

• University degree in CS, Software Engineering, or related field.
• 4-7 years of relevant working experience in SRE/Observability or data platforms.
• Experience instrumenting services, building dashboards, writing actionable alerts, and diagnosing live incidents.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and GitOps practices.
• Experience with distributed stream processing engines and OLAP databases.
• Strong programming in at least one of Python, Scala, Java or Rust, plus SQL skills.

Responsibilities

• Own the observability of the platform end to end: decide what to measure, instrument it, collect it, store it, and present it to people.
• Build Grafana dashboards and alerts that name what broke and what to check next.
• Run production systems: diagnose incidents, recover data, and fix root causes to prevent recurrence.
• Ship changes through CI/CD and GitOps; understand the difference between merged and live.
• Operate streaming workloads on Kubernetes (EKS) with capacity planning and config delivery.
• Provision AWS resources behind the platform as code (Terraform).
• Participate in on-call for the data and observability platform.
• Build and maintain near-realtime pipelines carrying telemetry and logs to quarriable tables.
• Reason about delivery guarantees and their impact on dashboard numbers.
• Design data quality checks to route bad records for investigation.
• Design and optimize OLAP tables for fast billions-row queries.
• Write and tune SQL behind dashboards and analytics.
• Translate requests into pipeline changes and table designs.

Skills

Observability

Grafana

Kubernetes

Terraform

SQL

Programming (Python/Scala/Java/Rust)

CI/CD

Streaming

OLAP/Columnar

On-call

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related

Tools

Prometheus

ELK/OpenTelemetry

CloudWatch

Job description

Pulsar in Hong Kong is seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer focused on observability and streaming data pipelines. You will own the platform’s end-to-end monitoring, instrument services, build Grafana dashboards and alerts that clearly indicate what broke and what to check next, and participate in on-call rotations.

The role requires deploying and running production systems on Kubernetes (EKS), managing infrastructure as code with Terraform, and delivering changes through CI/CD and