Site Reliability Engineer

Company Description

Founded in Europe in 2004, Tipico is now a licensed U.S. Sportsbook operating in New Jersey, Iowa, Ohio, and Colorado. Renowned in Germany and globally, Tipico offers online betting across 30 sports. Guided by values such as innovation and inclusion, Tipico focuses on creating top-notch mobile sports betting and casino products. Recently recognized as the No. 1 rated casino app in the U.S., Tipico is dedicated to enhancing gaming excitement for millions daily. Join us in redefining excellence in online entertainment!

Job Description

We are looking for someone who will be instrumental in ensuring the reliability of our organization’s Sports Betting and Casino applications:

Key duties and responsibilities include:

• Approaching operations as a Software Engineering challenge applying software engineering to solve operational challenges.
• Being the first point of contact to our Operations and Dev teams for any questions and issues regarding our platform.
• Responsibility to have the right monitoring tools in place and react to alerts during 24/7 on-call shifts.
• Positive attitude and the ability to understand the critical urgency of topics and strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ensure non-functional requirements for all applications and tools are met and clearly communicated. 
• Providing counsel to our internal software engineering team and proactively suggesting improvements on how to operate our microservice-based solution.
• Automate as much as possible where necessary to reduce overhead for the day-to-day business. 

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of software engineering or devops experience. 
• Practical experience in using common cloud APIs.
• Strong knowledge of Linux and shell scripting, as well as higher level protocols and patterns like HTTP3, REST, JSON and gRPC.
• Expertise in systems integration and distributed large scale microservice deployments. 
• Experience in operating and monitoring container workloads and similar technologies. 
• Strong code reading and understanding skills with at least one high level programming language 
• Knowledge of messaging or event streaming systems 
• Proficiency with CI/CD pipelines and source control systems. 
• Familiarity with Relational and NoSQL databases.

Nice to have:

• Online gaming and gambling experience.
• Understanding of the higher-level network stack for cloud-based systems.
• Knowledge of Java, Vert.x or Springboot 
• Knowledge of front-end technologies like Typescript, React, Lit or similar. 

Additional Information

• Work in an environment where you, your work and ideas matter and have an impact. 
• You will be a be part of the newest and up and coming USA online iGaming and sports betting companies in the market. 
• Work in a new and young business with high growth potential. 
• Build your own success story together with us.
• Work with self-organized, self-responsible and entrepreneurial employees.
• Start-up feeling, backed-up by a leading European sports betting house. We are a high-volume business and are taking off in the US! 
• Competitive salary, Medical, Vision, Dental Benefits, Unlimited PTO, and more

Total compensation for this role is market competitive, including a starting base salary of $115,000 to $130,000, depending on location and experience.