Senior Site Reliability Engineer - UK
At DNSFilter we have a singular mission: to challenge the way the industry thinks about security via DNS—and we need your help! We’ve come a long way over the past few years. In 2021 we had a successful $30 million Series A funding round, and in 2022 we became the fastest DNS security tool on the planet and joined forces with privacy-focused VPN Guardian! This year we’re continuing our product-fueled growth by adding new features to assist our customers with their DNS-layer security and broadening our solution to meet the needs of the global market.
As our company grows, we realize we have a missing piece and that’s where you come in! We are looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer in UK to help us maintain and grow our systems. You will need to be able to understand the importance of observability, how to automate and use CI/CD tools to deploy your IaC, understand how the cloud paying model works and how to make use of it optimally when deploying Infrastructure and having the ability to adhere to the best practices on secure deployment of resources along with a good understanding of configuration management. You have worked with containers and kubernetes and have experience managing EKS clusters. This is a fully remote, full-time role, open to candidates in UK only.
We recognize that people come with a wealth of experience and talent beyond just the technical requirements of a job. If you feel like this job is for you, please apply. We believe diversity of experience and skills, including transferable skills, combined with passion is a key to innovation and excellence; therefore we encourage people from all backgrounds to apply to our positions!
You will:
- Assist in the technical leadership of the DevEx & SRE team
- Assist in mentoring the existing team members
- Set and enforce high standards of observability and IaC
- Ensure that the team adheres to the best security practices
- Promote an excellent self-service experience for our engineers using existing or new tools
- Be part of our on-call rotation
Requirements
- A love for automation
- 5+ years of experience working with highly scalable applications
- 5+ years working with AWS (EKS, RDS, IAM, S3, DynamoDB, etc)
- 4+ years experience with managing and deploying IaC via Terraform (incl. Terratest)
- Proficiency working and managing Kubernetes clusters & using Helm
- Proficiency working with monitoring & observability tools such as Datadog, Prometheus & Grafana, Loki, etc
- Proficiency following best security practices for AWS
- Excellent utilization of version control systems
- Implemented CI/CD processes across multiple systems (application & infrastructure)
- Understanding of Go
- Experience working remotely
Bonus points for:
- Knowing how to set up and maintain AWS Organisations
- FinOps knowledge
Benefits
- A 100% work-from-home position with a company that values and fosters personal and professional growth
- Pathway to promotion to additional organizational positions and responsibilities based upon results and performance - not just time in the chair. You help us grow, we will help you grow.
- Passionate and intelligent colleagues who work hard and have a good time doing it
- Rotating 4-Day work week
- Paid company-wide week off at the end of each year
- Flexible Vacation policy
- Awesome company swag
- Home office buildout allowance
- Full medical, dental, and vision benefits for US and Canada based employees
- Full short-term disability and life benefits; available long-term disability
- 401k with vested company matching for qualifying employees
- In-person annual gatherings. Last time we all spent a week on a beach in Cancun!
The hiring range for this role is: $132,500 - $156,000 USD Annually
DNSFilter is a pay for performance organization, which means there is the opportunity to advance your compensation with performance over time. The hiring base pay is dependent upon many factors such as level, function, training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs, and/or geographic location. As a fully remote company, our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several U.S. and global geographic markets. We pay differently based on those defined markets. Our Talent Team can share more about the specific salary range for the job location during the hiring process.