Job description
🌐 Site Reliability Engineer | Cambridge (Hybrid) | Competitive Salary + Benefits
We’re hiring for a well-established, fast-moving tech company based in Cambridge that’s developing complex, high-availability software used globally. They’re scaling up and looking to bring in a Site Reliability Engineer to help ensure their platform stays reliable, secure, and fast—even as it grows.
You’ll join a small, close-knit team working across infrastructure, tooling, and DevOps practices—solving interesting challenges and improving how their systems run at scale.
🔧 What you’ll be doing:
We’re hiring for a well-established, fast-moving tech company based in Cambridge that’s developing complex, high-availability software used globally. They’re scaling up and looking to bring in a Site Reliability Engineer to help ensure their platform stays reliable, secure, and fast—even as it grows.
You’ll join a small, close-knit team working across infrastructure, tooling, and DevOps practices—solving interesting challenges and improving how their systems run at scale.
🔧 What you’ll be doing:
- Investigating and resolving tricky issues across distributed systems
- Root cause analysis and implementing long-term fixes
- Building tools and automation to boost reliability, performance, and scalability
- Supporting production environments and helping respond to incidents
- Working closely with developers to improve how apps are deployed and monitored
- Tech stack includes Python, Linux, AWS, Ansible, Prometheus, PostgreSQL, Node.js, Elasticsearch
- Strong problem-solving mindset with attention to detail
- Experience working with cloud-based infrastructure and modern DevOps tools
- Good understanding of how web applications are built and run
- Clear communication and ability to work well in fast-moving teams
- A technical degree (2:1 or above), from a top university
- Hands-on experience with any of the following: AWS, Node.js, Prometheus, PostgreSQL, Python, Ansible
- A passion for digging into complex systems and making them better