[Hiring] Site Reliability Engineer @Partly

Role Description

This role involves Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) which combines software and systems engineering to build and run large-scale, distributed systems, ensuring reliability, uptime, and performance appropriate to clients' needs.

• Ensure the stability, scalability, and security of our cloud infrastructure and applications in Kubernetes powered clusters.
• Leverage Infrastructure-as-Code and automation (Terraform for GCP, GitOps with ArgoCD, Custom scripts in Python/Bash) to deploy and manage workloads and resources.
• Monitor and optimise costs across our cloud and on-prem infrastructure.
• Work closely with developers, data engineers, and leadership to plan infrastructure needs and improvements.
• Ensure our software meets high production readiness standards.
• Participate in incident resolutions and assist developers in debugging applications, networks, databases, and compute systems.

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering skills with experience in developing and maintaining large software systems.
• Firm understanding of computer science fundamentals including data structures, concurrency, architecture, APIs, testing, and design patterns.
• Knowledge of system engineering fundamentals.
• Hands-on experience with modern SRE practices and tooling (e.g., Docker/Kubernetes, Terraform, ArgoCD).
• Deep familiarity with at least one major cloud platform and Linux operating system.
• Demonstrated leadership through mentoring junior engineers or leading small teams/projects.
• Excellent communication skills and a collaborative attitude.
• Willingness to adapt to evolving needs in a fast-growing startup environment.

Requirements

• Experience in a high-growth startup environment.
• Prior experience maintaining security compliance and certifications is a plus.
• Familiarity with specific tools (GCP, ArgoCD, GitLab CI, Kafka) is beneficial.
• Experience running production workloads over Apache Cassandra and/or Postgres database.
• Experience developing software in Rust programming language is a plus.

Benefits

• Simple time-off framework with no questions asked.
• No hierarchy and no ‘new joiner projects’.
• Dedicated Employee Experience Team to help you feel connected and supported.
• Competitive base salary and equity options for all global full-time employees.
• Parental leave with flexible return to work options.
• Flexible working hours with no mandatory 9-5.
• Focus Days with zero meetings for uninterrupted deep work.
• Generous relocation allowance for those moving to join the team.
• Brand new, architecturally designed offices in Christchurch CBD and Auckland.
• Monthly team lunches and celebrations.
• Commitment to sustainability and making a global environmental impact.
• Regular learning and development opportunities.
• Quarterly full team weeks for connection and strategy alignment.
• Annual global offsite for team bonding and strategy discussions.

Company Description

Partly's mission is to connect the world's parts by building the first global platform for replacement parts, starting with auto parts. Founded by ex-Rocket Lab engineers, we utilize cutting-edge technology to solve challenging problems in a $1.9 trillion industry.

• More than tripled our team over the last 12 months.
• Expect to double in size again over the coming 12 months.
• Global team spanning Europe and Australasia.
• Solutions integrated across hundreds of companies globally.
• Investors include Blackbird Ventures, Square Peg, Octopus Ventures, and notable individuals from the tech industry.