Key skills
Site Reliability EngineeringPlatform EngineeringSoftware Development with Operational FocusGoogle Cloud Platform (GCP)KubernetesTerraformHelmArgoCDPythonGoBashPrometheusGrafanaELK StackMonitoring and ObservabilityGCPLeadershipMentoringCommunicationCollaboration
About this role
Strike is the Bitcoin company, purpose-built for every step of the Bitcoin journey. They are seeking a highly experienced Site Reliability Engineer to lead technical initiatives and implement advanced solutions while mentoring team members.
Responsibilities:
- Lead Technical Initiatives: Drive key technical initiatives focused on improving the reliability, performance, and scalability of our critical systems, often leading technical aspects within projects
- Architect and Implement Advanced Solutions: Design and implement sophisticated resilient and scalable solutions, leveraging your deep understanding of distributed systems
- Master Troubleshooting and Optimization: Lead complex troubleshooting efforts, identify deep-seated root causes, and implement advanced optimizations
- Build and Evangelize Automation: Develop and champion the adoption of robust automation frameworks and tools, potentially guiding more junior engineers in their development
- Elevate Observability Practices: Design and implement comprehensive and insightful monitoring and logging solutions, ensuring actionable insights are available across teams
- Provide Leadership in Incident Management: Take a leadership role in incident response, providing critical technical direction and mentorship during high-pressure situations
- Champion Post-Mortem Excellence: Lead and contribute to in-depth blameless post-mortem analyses, driving significant improvements based on learnings
- Mentor and Guide Team Members: Share your extensive knowledge and experience to mentor and guide other SREs and engineers, fostering their technical growth
Requirements:
- Extensive experience with minimum 5 years in SRE, platform engineering, or software development with a strong operational focus
- Demonstrated experience in providing technical leadership, guidance, or mentorship to engineering teams
- Expert-level practical knowledge of cloud platforms, especially GCP
- Deep hands-on experience with container orchestration (Kubernetes) and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Helm, ArgoCD)
- Strong command of multiple scripting and programming languages (Python, Go, Bash)
- Proven expertise in building and leveraging advanced monitoring and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack)
- Exceptional analytical, problem-solving, and debugging skills at a senior level
- Excellent communication, collaboration, and influencing skills
- Organizational and leadership skills are a big plus