Site Reliability Engineer

Stake is looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to join our team at our HQ in Bondi Junction or work from home, 100% remote (Australia or New Zealand).

We’re an Australian investment platform with a mission to provide a seamless and immersive experience that breaks barriers for ambitious investors. We serve a global customer base of 500,000+ investors, with more than A$3 billion in assets under administration.

More than a digital brokerage, Stake is a brand that stands for progress. This is true for our customers as well as our team members. Our working environment is energetic, collaborative and supportive – everyone is encouraged to take ownership and challenged to deliver high-quality execution. 

Our internal mantra is ‘never settle’ and we all share an ambition to grow this business. This is your opportunity to join a scaleup rocketing upward to become a robust financial services company.

About this role

As a Site Reliability Engineer at Stake, you will play a vital role in upholding the reliability, scalability, and performance of our systems. You will

• Collaborate with engineering teams to design and implement resilient, scalable systems.
• Apply SRE best practices throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Assist in establishing and maintaining effective monitoring to identify and address potential issues.
• Automate routine tasks and processes to improve efficiency and reduce toil.
• Participate in incident response and contribute to postmortem analysis for continuous improvement.
• Assist in developing disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity plans (BCPs) in collaboration with relevant teams.

A bit about you:

• You have solid experience as an SRE with a good understanding of best practices.
• Experience deploying and managing systems in Kubernetes.
• Strong working knowledge of public cloud infrastructure, preferably with GCP.
• Proficiency in one or more programming languages like Go (preferred!), Java, or Python, with the ability to debug and automate tasks.
• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools and CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience working with monitoring and observability tools.
• Comfortable working under pressure, applying problem-solving skills to collaborate with teams effectively.

Let us know if you also have the following experiences but if you don't, we'll show you the ropes!

• you have good working knowledge around system security issues, and have experience with implementing security best practices and compliance standards
• experience working with distributed database systems, (CockroachDB a plus)
• experience with application performance testing using tools such as K6

At Stake, we value hustle over honours degrees, so we’re more interested in you than your resume. If you believe this is a role you want to jump into head first and be part of our mission, please apply and let us know why in your cover letter!

Benefits of working at Stake

At Stake you’ll have the opportunity to work with autonomy while learning from some of the best talent in the industry, playing a meaningful role in building a company that has loads of positive momentum and excitement around it.

But we also have perks. Not long ago, we proudly introduced new benefits under the Grow with Stake program. Please see the whole list on our Careers website, including:

• $2,500/year professional development allowance
• $1,000/year wellbeing allowance
• Up to 16 weeks of paid parental leave
• Childcare allowance of up to $18,000 in value over 24 months
• Extra paid leave during tough times
• Discretionary performance bonus and talent referral bonus
• Employee Share Options scheme

Stake is an equal opportunity employer that values diversity. We’re proactive about providing an inclusive work environment and do not discriminate based on race, religion, nationality, gender, sexual orientation, age or disability status. We’re also endorsed by WORK180 as a great employer for women. 

So what happens next?

Once we've received your application, we'll give it the attention it deserves and you'll hear from us either way. We’re a 2024 Circle Back Initiative Employer –which means we’re committed to responding to every applicant. If we think you’d be a good addition to our team, we’ll give you a call and from there, you'll cruise through our recruitment process.

To all recruitment agencies: Stake does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias or directly to Stake employees. Stake is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.