Site Reliability Engineer

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Remote-South America

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Interview Process

1. Call with a recruiter (if needed) 2. Call with manager, code exercise, call with team.

Programming Languages Mentioned

JavaScript, Java, Python


About Remote

Remote is solving global remote organizations’ biggest challenge: employing anyone anywhere compliantly. We make it possible for businesses big and small to employ a global team by handling global payroll, benefits, taxes, and compliance. Check out remote.com/how-it-works to learn more or if you’re interested in adding to the mission, scroll down to apply now.

Not only do we encourage folks from all ethnic groups, genders, sexuality, age, abilities, disability status and any other under-represented group to apply, but we prioritize a sense of belonging. We have 4 ERGs (Women, Disability, Queer, Minorities in Tech) who meet regularly with the People team. During your interviews and beyond, we ask & encourage anybody who needs an accommodation to request one from their recruiter.

All of our positions are fully remote. You do not have to relocate to join us!

The Position

You'll be joining 280+ engineers across Frontend, Backend, SRE and QA. We're organized into cross-functional development teams assigned to specific product areas. Regardless of the specific team you will be joining, you will be working on building features, tools, APIs and integrations for one of our products.

Our backend is built with Elixir and Phoenix, with a Postgres database. We use React and Nextjs for our frontend. Gitlab is used as a version control tool and a CI/CD solution. Our applications are hosted on AWS. We fully rely on our CI for deployments and deploy multiple times per day.

What this job can offer you

  • Complex and meaningful challenges — solving them will enable people and businesses to live and operate in any country of the world.
  • A lot of freedom to organize your work and life — you are not bound to daily standups, we keep most stuff async, but see each other weekly.
  • Competitive salary, stock options, unlimited PTO and a set of perks and benefits.
  • A supportive and kind work environment where we would like you to challenge the dogmas and pursue innovation!
  • Strong team of experienced engineers who will support and facilitate your professional growth.
  • Exposure to modern processes, tooling and infrastructure setup. We use Kubernetes, GitOps, Terragrunt/Terraform, etc.

What you bring

  • Knowledge and experience in Kubernetes, AWS (or similar Cloud Provider) and Terraform
  • Knowledge of CI/CD tools (GitLab, Github, Jenkins or similar)
  • Experience with at least 1 back-end programming language (Elixir, Clojure, Java, Node.js, Python, etc)
  • Experience with Bash or Python Scripting
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
  • Ability to work independently and self-guidedness
  • Curiosity and willingness to learn and develop
  • Holistic debugging skills
  • Security knowledge and capabilities from a defensive and offensive standpoint

Key Responsibilities

  • Managing and improving our existing infrastructure
  • Helping us build the next generation of our platform: using tools like Kubernetes, Terraform and Docker.
  • Streamlining and automating our deployment processes
  • Work closely with our Security team to keep on top of potential threats/patches
  • Support our engineers and product teams to improve overall scalability, stability and reliability

Practicals

  • You'll report to: Director of SRE
  • Team: Engineering
  • Location: Anywhere in LATAM
  • Start date: As soon as possible

Remote Compensation Philosophy

Remote's Total Rewards philosophy is to ensure fair, unbiased compensation and fair equity pay along with competitive benefits in all locations in which we operate. We do not agree to or encourage cheap-labor practices and therefore we ensure to pay above in-location rates. We hope to inspire other companies to support global talent-hiring and bring local wealth to developing countries.

At first glance our salary bands seem quite wide - here is some context. At Remote we have international operations and a globally distributed workforce.  We use geo ranges to consider geographic pay differentials as part of our global compensation strategy to remain competitive in various markets while we hiring globally.

The base salary range for this full-time position is $41,000 to $70,000. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level and location, and our job titles may span more than one career level. The actual base pay for the successful candidate in this role is dependent upon many factors such as location, transferable or job-related skills, work experience, relevant training, business needs, and market demands. The base salary range may be subject to change.

At Remote, we foster internal mobility as a key element of our culture of employee growth and development, supported by a compensation philosophy that guarantees pay equity and fairness. Therefore, all compensation changes associated with an internal move will be reviewed by the Total Rewards & People Enablement team on a case by case basis.

Application process

  1. (async) Application is reviewed by recruiters and SRE Team Leaders
  2. Interview with our recruiter - 30 mins
  3. Interview with your future manager - SRE Director - 60 mins
  4. (async) infrastructure exercise (you're not expected to spend more than 2 - 4 hours)
  5. Interview with the team (without any manager in the call so you can really get to know the people and ask all you want to ask) - 60 mins
  6. Bar Raiser interview
  7. Prior employment verification check

Benefits

Our full benefits & perks are explained in our handbook at remote.com/r/benefits. As a global company, each country works differently, but some benefits/perks are for all Remoters:
  • work from anywhere
  • flexible paid time off
  • flexible working hours (we are async)
  • 16 weeks paid parental leave
  • mental health support services
  • stock options
  • learning budget
  • home office budget & IT equipment
  • budget for local in-person social events or co-working spaces

How you’ll plan your day (and life)

We work async at Remote which means you can plan your schedule around your life (and not around meetings). Read more at remote.com/async.

You will be empowered to take ownership and be proactive. When in doubt you will default to action instead of waiting. Your life-work balance is important and you will be encouraged to put yourself and your family first, and fit work around your needs.

If that sounds like something you want, apply now!

How to apply

  1. Please fill out the form below and upload your CV with a PDF format.
  2. We kindly ask you to submit your application and CV in English, as this is the standardised language we use here at Remote.
  3. If you don’t have an up to date CV but you are still interested in talking to us, please feel free to add a copy of your LinkedIn profile instead.

We will ask you to voluntarily tell us your pronouns at interview stage, and you will have the option to answer our anonymous demographic questionnaire when you apply below. As an equal employment opportunity employer it’s important to us that our workforce reflects people of all backgrounds, identities, and experiences and this data will help us to stay accountable. We thank you for providing this data, if you chose to.

Please note we accept applications on an ongoing basis. 

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