Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Job Description

View our much better version of this job spec on our careers page: https://bit.ly/Juro-SRE
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⚙️ THE KEY BITS- Whereabouts: We can currently only accept applications from candidates that: (1)We can currently only accept applications from candidates that are located and have long-term working rights in the UK, Portugal, the Netherlands, Spain or Latvia.- Interviews: 3 stages totalling around 3,5 hours over 2 weeks.- Team: More about how we organised (https://bit.ly/PDEteam)- Reporting to: Juris, Lead SRE- More info: The FAQ below, our careers page (juro.notion.site), our handbook (https://tinyurl.com/juro-handbook) or ask prim@juro.com anything.



🤝 HELP US HELP THE WORLD AGREE MORE
Juro has big ambitions: de-throne MS Word as the standard way to do contracts. And we'll need a lot of help doing it.
Legal tech on the rise: companies in this space already attracted more than $1 billion in funding this year as the slow-moving industry digitises. With 3x annual revenue growth, we're in a great position to pilot this change.
Working alongside a small team of passionate developers, you will be integral to the secure design, implementation and operational management of the systems and services based on AWS automating the way people agree. You will help to improve our best practices around application, infrastructure and data security throughout our lifecycle.

🌠 YOUR MISSION
To build on our DevOps culture at Juro.You will focus on using your knowledge and experience to help our product teams move faster, bringing DevOps to the forefront of everything we do — using SRE best practice and processes to design, oversee and secure infrastructure and improve it in every possible way.
Some of the items and projects that you’ll be involved in:- Seeking and removing bottlenecks in Juro’s infrastructure by employing suitable patterns, best practices, platforms and technologies or making changes to the codebase and data architecture.- Streamlining, configuring and automating deployment of infrastructure and services.- Optimising our communications infrastructure so that microservices exchange data in a safe and reliable way.- Optimising database performance and architecture to meet the demands of our users.- Overseeing infrastructure and applications performance using observability best practices.- Automating to ensure repeatability, eliminate waste and remove dependencies.

🏔 WHY JOIN US?
🛠️ You decide what is best.You will have the autonomy to make decisions, define tooling and contribute to processes that lead to the best outcomes. You can propose new tools and systems for solving problems.
🦖 No legacy technologies.We use a modern stack including TypeScript, Node.js, MongoDB, Redis. As a bonus, you will have debugging tools such as Sentry, Loki, Grafana and a geek tool for task tracking — Linear.
💥 Make an impact.We a still small team — ca. 5 engineers per workstream. As a result, your impact on what we build will be significant: you will see the results of your work not in months, but weeks.
👀 Code review to help you grow.Our PR’s are rigorous, but that’s because we believe in them as an opportunity to keep improving and for wider knowledge transfer. Of course, where appropriate we will also pair or mob to get the best results.
🌈 Join the #1 startup to work for in 2022: https://tinyurl.com/juro-no-1We're immensely proud being voted #1 of the top 50 London startups to work for in 2022. This is the result of hard work, to show not tell, and make Juro the best place to work for. This spans from setting concrete steps become a truly diverse, inclusive workplace, to investing in a culture of growth, to offering flexibility to everyone and more.
For 2022, we plan on expanding on all of these areas — what benefits we offer, how we give and receive feedback and how we foster a genuine sense of belonging for all Jurors to bring their full and best selves to work.


📬 WE'D LOVE TO HEAR FROM YOU IF...
🌈 Research shows that while men apply to jobs if they meet ~60% of criteria, women and those in traditionally underrepresented groups tend to apply only if they check all boxes. So if you think you have what it takes but don't meet every single point above, please still get in touch. We'd love to have a chat and see if you could be a great fit.

- You have experience with containerised environments such as Docker and Kubernetes- You have used a variety of AWS services such as EC2, S3, Route53, and lambdas in your day to day role and are familiar using them to build, secure and run SaaS-oriented solutions.- You get observability and know that Prometheus or other monitoring tools help you to get infrastructure and application insights that can drive reliability and improvement.- Github actions or Gitlab pipelines to build CI/CD solutions are second nature to you.- You have been involved in product architecture: creating and improving architecture, migrating from old to new services and structures and shifting+left.- Managed MongoDB, Redis or Kafka clusters.
🍒 Bonus points if:You got the UDP joke 👂
At Juro, we approach our work in line with our values:🙏 #BeMoreHumanMentoring: You use your technical expertise to teach / guide others patiently.Collaborating: You are comfortable with communicating across all engineering teams from talking about observability.
🚀 #TrustAndDeliverAutonomy: You are empowered to find the right solutions to our customers needs. You are comfortable working independently but also work well and trust others in your team and the teams around you.
❤️ #LoveTheDetailsCaring: You take responsibility for what you build because you care. You proactively seek/give feedback to suggest improvements. Documenting: you create and update documentation to help teams resolve issues faster.️
👌 #KeepItSimpleYou stay calm and methodical in a high workload, diving into root cause of the problem.Focus on results: You deliver the tasks and projects that you promise, and you don't invent new solutions if an appropriate one already exists.


🤨 GOT MORE QUESTIONS?
Check if they're answered on:- Our extended job description for this role: https://bit.ly/Juro-SRE- Our company handbook: https://tinyurl.com/juro-handbook- Our careers page: https://juro.notion.site
There, you'll find answers on topics such as career progression, inclusion & belonging, the interview process, benefits and more. Or reach out to Primrose, Talent Partner at Juro (prim@juro.com) for anything.