Senior Big Data SRE: Observability, Reliability & Automation

SHOPEE SINGAPORE PRIVATE LIMITED; Singapore; On-site; SGD 90,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

SHOPEE SINGAPORE PRIVATE LIMITED is seeking a Big Data SRE to deploy, operate, and maintain our data platforms. You will own monitoring, incident response, troubleshooting, and capacity planning while building observability and automation across the data stack.

You will collaborate with engineering, data, and infrastructure teams to enhance platform architecture and ensure production reliability and operational safety, contributing to Shopee’s scalable platform ecosystem.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or any related fields.
• At least one year of experience in big data SRE, platform operations, or production support.
• Familiarity with the Hadoop ecosystem and hands-on operational experience with one or more technologies such as HDFS, YARN, Spark, Flink, Hive, Presto/Trino, Kafka, HBase, or ClickHouse.

Responsibilities

• Deploy, operate, and maintain big data platforms, improving availability, reliability, scalability, and efficiency.
• Own monitoring, alerting, incident response, troubleshooting, performance optimization, and capacity planning for big data services.
• Build and improve platform observability: metrics, logging, tracing, dashboards, and alert management.
• Turn operational knowledge and repetitive tasks into documentation, tools, automation, and standardized processes.
• Improve incident response procedures, contingency plans, and post-incident reviews to reduce failures and MTTR.
• Collaborate with engineering, data, and infrastructure teams to optimize platform architecture and ensure production reliability.

Skills

Big data SRE

Monitoring

Troubleshooting

Python

Shell scripting

Java/Scala

Linux basics

Incident response

Collaboration

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Tools

HDFS

YARN

Spark

Flink

Hive

Presto/Trino

Kafka

HBase

ClickHouse

Linux tooling

Job description

SHOPEE SINGAPORE PRIVATE LIMITED is seeking a Big Data SRE to deploy, operate, and maintain our data platforms. You will own monitoring, incident response, troubleshooting, and capacity planning while building observability and automation across the data stack.

You will collaborate with engineering, data, and infrastructure teams to enhance platform architecture and ensure production reliability and operational safety, contributing to Shopee’s scalable platform ecosystem.