Senior Site Reliability Engineer – US

At Camunda , we have a simple goal: automate any processes, anywhere. All the way from Zalando’s online shop to NASA’s space missions, processes are everywhere, and at Camunda we have made it our mission to enable organizations to design, automate and improve these processes — no matter where they are and what they entail.

Camunda is an open source software company innovating process automation with a developer-friendly approach that is standards-based, highly scalable and collaborative for business and IT. A community of tens of thousands of users across companies such as Vodafone, ING, Allianz, Lufthansa and Atlassian design, automate and improve mission-critical business processes end-to-end with Camunda. Camunda has been repeatedly recognized by Deloitte as a high-growth company and has a presence in Germany, United States, UK, Singapore and Australia.

Team Description:

Our SRE team is responsible for building and running the SaaS platform offering Camunda’s products in the cloud. We have started only recently on a green field, so there are plenty of opportunities to leave your footprints. We are a fully remote team mostly working from our homes – but working in one of our offices is okay too 😉

We have close relationships with both product management as well with the engineering teams developing the products we offer in the cloud. You would be helping us by

• Designing the next iterations of our environment to meet business needs and rapid growth projections
• Implementing and running the infrastructure of our SaaS offering
• Providing best-practice knowledge from the perspective of SRE and operations during development
• Handling incidents and preventing them from ever happening again
• Mentoring and training of other team members
• Participating in hiring exceptionally talented people

*This is a remote role and can be based anywhere in the US East Coast

What you’ll work with:

• Kubernetes on Google Cloud Platform and Amazon Web Services
• Container technologies like Docker
• Continuous integration and delivery
• Monitoring / Logging with Prometheus, Thanos, Grafana and Stackdriver
• Infrastructure as code using Kustomize and Helm
• GitHub & Open Source
• SLIs, SLOs, SLAs and error budgets

What you’ll bring along:

• You like the idea of working in a fully remote team.
• You recognize the value of automation and reproducibility
• Eager to solve challenging problems using new technologies
• You learn, experiment and break things (but not in production ;-))
• You like to work with open source technologies
• Experience with highly available SaaS products or large websites in production
• You don’t mind taking part in (extra paid) on-call rotations
• Deep knowledge in the following areas (specific tool choices are always up for discussion)
  • Kubernetes
  • GCP or AWS cloud offerings
  • L4-7 Networking e.g. DNS, HTTP/2, gRPC, Linkerd2, Nginx, Cloudflare, service proxies
  • CI/CD e.g. Cloud Build, Spinnaker, GitOps, Tekton, Prow, or others
  • Coding in a scripting language e.g bash, python, and a compiled language e.g. go, java, c

What we have to offer:

• A high growth software company with a 4.8 Glassdoor rating and a >90% CEO approval
• A team of wonderful and highly qualified colleagues working in a friendly and agile environment
• Flexible working conditions and ability to work remotely
• Competitive compensation, benefits, and time off
• Freedom of choice for your technical equipment, e.g. Mac or Linux or Windows
• Free German and English classes

”Everyone is welcome at Camunda” — it’s a celebrated component of our culture. We strive to create an inclusive environment that empowers our people. At Camunda, we honour diverse cultures and backgrounds and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applications will receive consideration without regard to gender, race, ethnicity, religion, belief, sexual orientation, age, disability or any other protected characteristics under applicable law. We are looking forward to your application!

Did we pique your interest? Apply now and learn more. For a complete list of jobs at Camunda, please check out: www.camunda.com/career/ .