SRE-Driven Software Engineer: Reliability & Observability

Electrum Software; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible Work hours

Generous leave: 20 days/year

Cape Town office perks: daily catered/

Fully-stocked kitchen

Job summary

Electrum Software is seeking a Software Engineer focused on reliability to write and ship software that keeps our payments systems healthy, scalable, and secure. You will work within the engineering organization to build tooling, improve deployment and operations, and solve production issues with a strong craft.

You’ll participate in on-call rotations, help manage incidents, and shape decisions around security, rollout strategies, and monitoring for system health and availability.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in CS/IT or equivalent.
• 3+ years building/operating production systems with real operational ownership.
• Proficiency with cloud services (AWS preferred).
• Experience with observability tooling and pipelines (DataDog, ELK, Grafana).
• Infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD tooling (Terraform or similar).

Responsibilities

• Contribute to codebases and shared platforms with standard review, testing and delivery.
• Design, build, and maintain software, tooling, and automation to improve reliability, availability and scalability.
• Collaborate with other engineers to address issues in systems we own and depend on.
• Develop and maintain incident response processes and alerting mechanisms.
• Build and maintain tooling to measure SLIs and SLOs and share results with teams.

Skills

Cloud knowledge (AWS)

Observability tooling

Incident response

CI/CD practices

Troubleshooting under pressure

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or IT

Tools

DataDog

Elastic/ELK Stack

Grafana

Terraform

Kubernetes

Job description

Electrum Software is seeking a Software Engineer focused on reliability to write and ship software that keeps our payments systems healthy, scalable, and secure. You will work within the engineering organization to build tooling, improve deployment and operations, and solve production issues with a strong craft.

You’ll participate in on-call rotations, help manage incidents, and shape decisions around security, rollout strategies, and monitoring for system health and availability.