Staff Site Reliability Engineer

Why this role?

 We are seeking a skilled and proactive Staff Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join our team and support our growth of the Snyk API & Web, by building scalable, reliable, and secure cloud infrastructure. You will be responsible for ensuring the performance and uptime of our systems while adopting DevOps best practices and leveraging modern tools.

What You’ll Do:

• Ensuring high availability, scalability, and disaster recovery across all systems.

• Leading architectural discussions and making strategic decisions related to scalability, security, and availability.

• Driving continuous improvement of our infrastructure, deployment, and monitoring processes.

• Collaborating with development and operations teams to improve deployment processes and infrastructure resiliency.

• Acting as a subject-matter expert for the SRE team and cross-functional engineering groups.

• Mentoring and supporting other engineers, helping to grow team skills and practices.

• Leading root cause analysis processes and post-incident reviews to ensure learning and resilience improvements.

• Spreading the word of reliability, observability, and automation across the organisation

What You Bring:

• Experience with AWS (open to other cloud providers)  

• Deep understanding of Kubernetes architecture and day-to-day cluster management, as well as managing complex Kubernetes environments 

• Experience with Security Services/ Internet Infrastructure providers, e.g. Cloudflare  

• Proficiency in alerting and monitoring tools 

• Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code tools  (Terraform, Kustomize and Helm) 

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and GitOps practices such as ArgoCD or similar tools 

• Strong scripting and automation skills in Bash and/or Python.

• Solid knowledge of networking principles 

• A proactive mindset with the ability to work in a fast-paced environment 

It’d Be Awesome If You Also… 

• Have familiarity with incident management practices (on-call, runbooks, postmortem, disaster recovery).

• Understand Zero Trust security models and security best practices in cloud environments.

• Have exposure to Service Mesh (Istio, Linkerd) and container networking.

• Have experience with cost optimisation and cloud spend monitoring.

• Knowledge of managing permission models on distributed systems 

#LI-CR1  #LI-Hybrid

We care deeply about the warm, inclusive environment we’ve created and we value diversity – we welcome applications from those typically underrepresented in tech. If you like the sound of this role but are not totally sure whether you’re the right person, do apply anyway!

About Snyk

Snyk is committed to creating an inclusive and engaging environment where our employees can thrive as we rally behind our common mission to make the digital world a safer place. From Snyk employee resource groups, to global benefits that help our employees prioritize their health, wellness, financial security, and a work/life blend, we aim to support our employees along their entire journeys here at Snyk.

Benefits & Programs

- Prioritize health, wellness, financial security, and life balance with programs tailored to your location and role.

- Flexible working hours, work-from home allowances, in-office perks, and time off for learning and self development

- Generous vacation and wellness time off, country-specific holidays, and 100% paid parental leave for all caregivers

- Health benefits, employee assistance plans, and annual wellness allowance

- Country-specific life insurance, disability benefits, and retirement/pension programs, plus mobile phone and education allowances