SRE: Build Reliable Big Data Platforms

SHOPEE SINGAPORE PRIVATE LIMITED; Singapore; On-site; SGD 70,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Shopee Singapore Private Limited is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to bolster the Data Infrastructure and related platforms. You will focus on reliability, on-call incident response, automation, and observability to ensure scalable, efficient operation of distributed systems.

The role requires a strong foundation in Linux, scripting (Shell/Python), and familiarity with containers/Kubernetes, Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK stacks.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or above in Computer Science, Engineering, or related fields.
• Solid understanding of Linux fundamentals and the command line.
• Proficient in Shell, and/or another scripting language such as Python, for operational automation.
• Familiarity with OS, networking, or distributed systems fundamentals.

Responsibilities

• Improve service reliability across the lifecycle: monitoring, troubleshooting, capacity/health follow-up, and refinement of assigned platform components.
• Participate in on-call: triage and mitigate incidents, contribute to post-incident reviews, and help land lasting fixes.
• Build automation and tooling that reduce operational toil (Shell/Python scripts first; small services when needed).
• Strengthen observability with metrics, logs, dashboards, and actionable alerting.
• Support safe change and operations: releases, rollbacks, configuration changes, and runbook/SOP maintenance.
• Partner with platform and business engineers to diagnose production issues and improve operability.

Skills

Troubleshooting

Observability

Automation

On-call

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Shell scripting

Python

Kubernetes

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK

Job description

Shopee Singapore Private Limited is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to bolster the Data Infrastructure and related platforms. You will focus on reliability, on-call incident response, automation, and observability to ensure scalable, efficient operation of distributed systems.

The role requires a strong foundation in Linux, scripting (Shell/Python), and familiarity with containers/Kubernetes, Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK stacks.