Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

CAKE.com; United States; Remote; USD 165,000 - 248,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

MacBook provided

Learning opportunities

Job summary

CAKE.com is seeking a senior DevOps/Platform Engineer for a remote, contractor role focused on scaling reliable infrastructure with strong security and automation. The position requires expertise in AWS, Docker, Git, and CI/CD pipelines, plus IaC tooling like Terraform and CloudFormation.

Collaboration across US and EU time zones is expected. The role emphasizes incident response, observability, and continuous improvement, with no overtime commitments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• Experience with AWS, Docker, Git and CI/CD systems.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, Puppet or Packer.
• Strong Linux/Unix skills and shell scripting.
• Understanding of security practices and build automation.
• CS degree or equivalent and strong English communication across US/EU time zones.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain scalable infrastructure to handle high traffic growth.
• Set up monitoring, alerting, and logging for service health visibility.
• Identify security weaknesses and apply best practices.
• Respond to production incidents and document lessons from post-mortems.
• Review server logs for unusual activity.
• Build and maintain automation for operational processes and CI/CD workflows.

Skills

AWS

Docker

Git

CI/CD

Shell scripting

Security practices

English communication

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Ansible

Puppet

Packer

Nomad

Consul

Vault

MongoDB

MySQL

PostgreSQL

Kubernetes

Job description

Role overview

Keep a growing, high-traffic service reliable by scaling and securing its infrastructure. The work spans cloud operations, automation, observability, and incident response, with a stated target of supporting traffic up to 100,000 requests per second.

This remote role is limited to candidates in the UK and EU member states.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain infrastructure that can handle high traffic and continued growth.
• Set up monitoring, alerting, and logging to make service health visible.
• Identify security weaknesses and apply security best practices.
• Respond to production incidents, resolve them, and document lessons through post-mortems.
• Review server logs for unusual behavior.
• Build and maintain automation for operational processes, repositories, and build workflows.

Requirements

• At least five years of relevant professional experience.
• Experience with AWS, Docker, Git, and CI/CD systems such as GitLab CI or Jenkins.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code and configuration tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, Puppet, or Packer.
• Strong Linux or Unix skills, including shell scripting.
• Understanding of security practices and experience setting up build automation and repositories.
• Computer science degree or equivalent experience, strong English communication, and ability to work with teams across US and EU time zones.

Nice to have

• HashiCorp tools such as Nomad, Consul, or Vault.
• MongoDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, or distributed architecture experience.
• Agile delivery practices, continuous integration and delivery, or executable documentation.
• Object-oriented programming and Java.

Benefits and work setup

• Remote work with a provided MacBook.
• B2B independent-contractor arrangement and internal learning opportunities.
• The role description states no overtime, weekend work, or late working hours.