Senior / Expert Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering (Garena)

Garena; Singapore; On-site; SGD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Garena's Shared Game Services (SGS) is hiring a Site Reliability Engineer to build scalable, robust platform services for Garena's games. You will drive reliability, performance, and automated workflows across Linux-based systems and Kubernetes clusters.

Responsibilities include deploying and tuning services, capacity planning, incident response, and documentation. A minimum 3 years in SRE with strong Linux/Kubernetes skills is required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in CS, Engineering, IS or related fields.
• Minimum 3 years of full-time Site Reliability Engineer experience.
• Strong Linux experience (Ubuntu, CentOS, etc.).
• Hands-on Kubernetes knowledge and ecosystem experience.
• Networking knowledge (TCP/IP, DNS) and OS basics.
• Proficiency with Bash, Python or Go and problem solving under pressure.

Responsibilities

• Deep dive into development lines to promote scalability, stability and performance.
• Set up, manage and maintain product, middleware and big-data apps and services.
• Perform server-side deployments, performance tuning and troubleshooting.
• Design and develop automations for workflows.
• Capacity and resource management.
• Oversee full-chain stress tests to improve performance and reduce redundancy.
• Prepare routine operation documentation.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Problem solving

Team player

Fast learner

Detail oriented

Education

Bachelor’s Degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems or related fields

Tools

Kubernetes

Linux

Bash

Python

Go

Job description

Shared Game Services (SGS) provides core platform services to all games published by Garena. Services include but not limited to authentication, payment, and mobile SDK.

We are a dedicated and passionate team of product managers and engineers committed to building a platform that is scalable and robust for high volume, while ensuring reliable and localized user experience for our users.

Job Description

• Deep dive into development lines, learning and understanding the mechanism of every application component, and promoting product scalability, stability and performance.
• Setup, manage and maintain product/middleware/big-data applications and services.
• Perform regular and ad-hoc server-side deployments, performance fine-tuning and troubleshooting.
• Design and develop automations for our workflow.
• Capacity and Resource management.
• Responsible for the full-chain stress test to enhance the performance and remove redundancy of applications.
• Prepare routine operation documentation.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems or related fields.
• Minimum 3 years of relevant full-time working experience in Site Reliability Engineer roles
• Extensive and hands‑on knowledge with Linux operating systems (Ubuntu, CentOS, etc.).
• Extensive and hands‑on knowledge with Kubernetes and the eco‑system.
• Knowledge of Computer Network(TCP/IP, DNS, etc.) and OS.
• Hands‑on experience with at least one of the programming languages: Bash, Python, Go.
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills with the ability to thrive under high‑pressure situations.
• Fast learning ability and a good team player.
• Detailed-oriented, cautious and prudent.