Senior Staff SRE: Scale Reliable Cloud Platforms

Devopsroles; Auckland; Hybrid; NZD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Lightspeed share scheme

Unlimited paid time off

Work remotely from anywhere in the世界 (

Flexible working policy

Health and wellness benefit

Mental health platform and counselling

Paid parental leave

Paid Volunteer day

Premium health insurance

Breakfast and lunches in office

Parking facilities

Subsidised commuting

Dog-friendly office

Job summary

Lightspeed in Auckland is seeking a Staff Site Reliability Engineer to join our Platform team. You will shape how we build and operate reliable systems at scale, across AWS infrastructure, platform engineering and software to empower product teams to ship and operate great products.

You’ll have autonomy to tackle complex problems, influence technical direction, improve resilience, scalability and efficiency, and mentor engineers while participating in on-call rotations.

Qualifications

• Strong AWS experience operating highly available, scalable production systems.
• Experience in a SaaS or product-led environment, working cross-functionally and navigating change.
• Strong Infrastructure as Code experience with Terraform and configuration management tooling.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, ECS and Linux systems.
• Ability to code in Python, Ruby or Go, alongside complex Shell scripting.
• Experience with observability, incident management, disaster recovery and security practices.
• Experience with datastores such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis or DynamoDB, plus cloud cost optimisation.
• Understanding of Agile, continuous delivery and testing, with strong communication, judgement and prioritisation skills.

Responsibilities

• Shape our approach to infrastructure reliability, developer experience and platform capabilities.
• Design and maintain scalable, automated AWS infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code.
• Build tools and platform services that help product engineers ship and operate independently.
• Partner with engineering teams to design resilient, secure and cost-effective systems.
• Improve engineering practices and delivery processes across distributed, cross-functional teams.
• Champion observability, high availability, incident management and disaster recovery.
• Apply systems thinking to complex problems, lead incident response and drive lasting improvements.
• Mentor engineers, influence reliability practices and participate in our on-call rotation.

Skills

AWS experience

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

Linux

Python

Go

Observability

Incident management

Security practices

Datastores

Tools

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Lightspeed in Auckland is seeking a Staff Site Reliability Engineer to join our Platform team. You will shape how we build and operate reliable systems at scale, across AWS infrastructure, platform engineering and software to empower product teams to ship and operate great products.

You’ll have autonomy to tackle complex problems, influence technical direction, improve resilience, scalability and efficiency, and mentor engineers while participating in on-call rotations.