Principal Site Reliability Engineer

Copper.co is a company focused on building institutional digital asset infrastructure. They are seeking a Principal Site Reliability Engineer to deliver reliability, performance, and uptime for their systems while continuously improving operations and preventing issues.

Responsibilities:

• Define how we think about reliability, observability, and operational excellence
• Drive the adoption of SRE principles across the organization while building the systems and processes that make those principles measurable – think SLIs, SLOs and error budgets
• Champion architectural improvements that enhance both system reliability and deployment velocity
• Provide consultation on system architecture, building reusable platforms and frameworks, planning capacity needs, and conducting production readiness reviews to ensure services launch and operate successfully
• Engage in and improve the lifecycle of microservices, from inception through deployment, operation, observability, and continuous refinement
• Partner with engineering and product leadership to embed reliability into our product development lifecycle
• Conduct blameless postmortems and drive systemic improvements in incident management
• Mentor engineers across the organisation on SRE practices, helping teams take ownership of their service reliability

Requirements:

• Experience in designing, analysing, and troubleshooting distributed systems or micro-services architectures
• Established expertise in observability and incident management
• Proven experience in driving organizational Change
• Excellent communication skills, with a systematic problem-solving approach
• Experience working with production workloads in AWS
• Experience working in financial services or similarly regulated environments
• Interest in blockchain based technologies and/or ‘decentralised' finance
• Master's degree in Computer Science or Engineering