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Blip • Portugal

Site Reliability Engineer

Employment type:  Full time

Job Description

As Site Reliability Engineer you'll be accountable for closely monitoring the availability of our platforms, performance and stability while closely working with software development teams in how to improve critical components.

Working with complex challenges while assuring uptime and reliability in different setups (AWS Cloud, AWS Outpost, OpenStack) allows you to use different skillsets in coding, algorithms and complexity analysis.

What will you be doing?

  • Engage in and improve the whole lifecycle of services—from design, deployment, operation, and refinement.
  • Take an active part in production problems root cause investigation, identification, and resolution (where necessary)
  • Support services before they go live through activities such as system design consulting, developing software platforms and frameworks, capacity planning, and launch reviews.
  • Maintain services once they are live by measuring and monitoring availability, latency, and overall system health.
  • Be an active part of performance and capacity testing;
  • Optimize reliability monitoring & alerting;
  • Scale systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation; evolve systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity.
  • Iteratively perform Auditing of performance and reliability vulnerabilities;
  • Define and revise Service Level Indicators (SLIs);
  • Practice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems.

We are looking for someone who:

  • Has experience with Operating Systems & Networking knowledge;
  • Has experience with programming languages such as Python, Java or Go;
  • Has experience working with public cloud providers;
  • Has experience working with microservices architectures;
  • Has experience working with message queuing services and databases;
  • Has experience with Configuration Management tools such chef and ansible;
  • Has knowledge of Monitoring Solutions like Datadog and Splunk;
  • Familiar with CD/CI pipelines comprising Jenkins, Git, Artifactory or others.

Company benefits

Open to job sharing
Sabbaticals
Enhanced maternity leave – 3 extra months of bonding time or 3 monetary boosts
Enhanced paternity leave – 3 extra months of bonding time or 3 monetary boosts
Work from anywhere scheme – Take 20 - Spend up to 20 days working abroad
Dog friendly office
Health insurance – Health Insurance for employee and household
Tax-free childcare
On-site workout classes
On-site massages
On-site catering
Fully stocked snack cupboard
Meditation space
On-site yoga classes
Personal development budgets – 1000€/year of Self Development Fund
Hackathons
Charity donation scheme
Language lessons
Volunteer days – 2 social days per year
Financial coaching
Legal consults
Employee assistance programme
Teambuilding days
Relocation packages
Employee discounts
Work from home budget
Self Development Fund
Health Insurance for Employee + Household
3 extra Vacation Days/Year and up to 5 more, increasing with your length of service
Bonus up to 20% Annual Salary
Training & Development + Job Swing

Working at Blip

Company employees:

605

Gender diversity (m:f):

70:30

Office Locations

Awards & Accreditations

2nd – Medium companies

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Flexa100 2024
SaaS & Software

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Industry awards 2023
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