Job Overview and Responsibilities

Reliability/infrastructure engineers work on critical systems underlying the rest of the firm’s technology, making use of both their SRE skills and mindset. The team is building a reliable, low-latency, highly concurrent system capable of handling thousands of executions per second. As our engineers deploy to production several times a day, the underlying system has to be robust and support good observability in an ever-changing environment. We are improving our AWS/Kubernetes infrastructure, and are looking for someone passionate to help us build a low-friction, highly available production environment.

This is not a traditional SRE role - more of a fusion between classic DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering. In fact, the team should not maintain systems. They write code and tools to take care of it instead.

Key Requirements

• You are very strong at algorithm, logical-thinking
• You enjoy making infrastructure more automated, flexible and robust
• You have a deep knowledge of operating system fundamentals (we use Ubuntu).
• You enjoying collaborating with others
• You are familiar with a scripting language, like Python or Bash
• You enjoy troubleshooting and know how the common profiling/debugging tools work
• You have knowledge of containerised environments and configuration management tools
• You are interested in working in a modern AWS and Kubernetes environment.

Why You Should Apply This Position

We've adopted self-management because we know that our people are best qualified to make decisions that affect them. Trust is the driving force. We know that people are more motivated when they're trusted to work on what they deem to be important. Ideas and creativity are welcomed at Smarkets and we empower our people to drive their projects forward.

Our Perks:

• Self-management structure: Whatever your craft, you’ll set your own goals. If you want to contribute to an open-source project or spend some time researching another way to implement something, then we want you to do that.
• Transparent approach to salaries: Salaries are set by peer review at our company. We are committed to paying our employees fairly based on the value that they add, rather than how they negotiate. We publish all of our salaries internally.
• We're well fuelled: Food is big at our company. Enjoy three freshly prepared meals every day in our fantastic rooftop kitchen. Our team of in-house chefs use fresh and sustainable ingredients - lunch al’desko is officially banned!
• Discretionanry holiday: A prescribed number of holidays is a thing of the past. One size doesn’t fit all, so we offer discretionary holiday to give you the flexibility to take a break when needed rather than counting how many days you have remaining.