Site Reliability Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure

Openkrill; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Weave is seeking a cloud infrastructure engineer to build, maintain, and improve the cloud platform that powers its services. You will work with a modern stack including GCP, Go, Kubernetes, Terraform, Prometheus, Grafana, and Vault to ensure reliability, scalability, and performance.

This remote role collaborates with engineering teams, participates in on-call rotation, and emphasizes automation, monitoring, and IaC practices.

Qualifications

• Experience building scalable, highly available cloud infrastructure.
• Proficiency with Kubernetes, Docker, and IaC tools.
• Experience with Go or Python for automation.

Responsibilities

• Automate day-to-day operations and implement reliable monitoring.
• Design scalable, highly available systems in production.
• Collaborate with product teams to resolve incidents and improve tooling.
• Participate in weekly on-call rotation.
• Follow IaC practices and GitOps using ArgoCD.

Skills

Cloud infrastructure design

Go & Python scripting

Troubleshooting complex systems

On-call experience

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

GCP

Terraform

Prometheus

Grafana

Vault

ArgoCD

Job description

In this role, you will be responsible for building, maintaining, and improving the cloud infrastructure that powers Weave's services. You will work with a modern tech stack, including Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Go, Kubernetes, Terraform, Prometheus, Grafana, and Vault. As an engineer, you will be proficient in core tools and languages, capable of completing routine tasks independently, and will use established patterns to create high-quality, maintainable solutions. You will play a key role in ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of our platform.

• This position will be remote
• Reports to: Engineering Manager

WHAT YOU WILL OWN

• Automate away as much of the day-to-day work as possible.
• Design and implement highly available and scalable systems.
• Ensure smooth day-to-day operations of Weave’s infrastructure.
• Build and evolve tools and standards for automation, scaling, monitoring, and alerting.
• Collaborate with product teams to resolve production issues, improve monitoring and leverage cloud services.
• Participate in weekly on-call rotation.

WHAT YOU WILL NEED TO ACCOMPLISH THE JOB

• Proficiency with at least one cloud platform is required, with GCP services (e.g., GKE, Compute Engine, VPC) being a plus.
• Solid understanding of containerization technologies such as Kubernetes and Docker.
• Experience with automation tools such as Puppet, Salt, Ansible, and Terraform.
• Experience writing automation using Go, Python, etc.
• Experience designing highly available and scalable systems.
• Proficient with version control systems (e.g., Git) and CI/CD concepts.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to troubleshoot complex issues systematically.

WHAT WILL MAKE US LOVE YOU

• A passion for Infrastructure as Code, constantly seeking opportunities to automate, optimize, and manage infrastructure through code.
• Deep expertise in Kubernetes, including cluster design, deployment, and ongoing management for large-scale applications.
• Experience with advanced GCP services and architectures.
• A strong sense of ownership and accountability for the systems you build and maintain.
• Managing infrastructure and applications using IaC, GitOps and ArgoCD.

Employment with Weave is contingent upon the successful completion of a background check, conducted in accordance with applicable laws.

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