[Hiring] Senior Software Engineer/SRE @itD Tech

Role Description

itD is seeking a Sr. Software Engineer/SRE (Site Reliability Engineer). We are looking for a highly motivated Lead Site Reliability Engineer on the Observability team. You will lead the design, development and operation of large-scale, secure observability systems that make sure our services stay online and performant. We're a team of passionate software engineers that value quality and customer experience. Our team is based in the US and EMEA, and we embrace hybrid and remote work.

The opportunity is remote in the UK.

Internal Responsibilities:

• Attend regular internal practice community meetings.
• Collaborate with your itD practice team on industry thought leadership.
• Complete client case studies and learning material (blogs, media material).
• Build out material to contribute to the Digital Transformation practice.
• Attend internal itD networking events (in person and virtual).
• Work with leadership on career fast-track opportunities.

Examples of projects our team works on:

• Design, deploy and scale our Prometheus architecture to handle 100+ million active series and beyond.
• Deploy and operate large, high-performance ElasticSearch clusters holding 2000+TB of data.
• Deploy and grow high-throughput data pipelines built on Kafka, handling hundreds of thousands of events per second.
• Design and build an alerting system that allows engineering teams to construct alerts from multiple data sources and alerting workflows.
• Write libraries and APIs that give engineers self-service access to our monitoring, logging, and other observability systems.
• Use Terraform to deploy public and private cloud infrastructure.

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience designing, deploying and operating mid to large size distributed systems on VMs or bare metal machines running Linux (we run Debian and Ubuntu).
• 2+ years experience developing with languages like Ruby, Python, Go, Scala, or Bash.
• Excited by the challenge of solving difficult problems in large distributed systems that deal with huge amounts of data.
• Desire to work on a highly autonomous team that cares deeply about quality and customer experience.
• Curious, learn fast and feel comfortable diving into unfamiliar code and systems to solve problems.
• Understand the value of observability and can work with other teams to help them better monitor their services.
• Willing to be part of a production on-call rotation.
• Direct experience with the following technologies (or similar): Elasticsearch Logstash Kibana (ELK) stack, Kafka, Prometheus/Thanos/Cortex, Graphite, Ansible, Terraform, Consul.
• Strong experience in building out solutions based on Software engineering best practices.

Preferred Skills

• Enterprise and Tech Industry experience: Cisco, Meraki, Google, ServiceNow, Meta, etc.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a closely related field.

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical benefits.
• 401k plan.
• Paid holidays.
• Networking & career learning and development programs.

Company Description

About itD: We are part of a new generation of consulting and software development company that blends diversity, innovation, and integrity with real business results. Our structure rejects any strong hierarchy, empowering us to deliver excellent results. We are a woman- and minority-led firm. Every day, we challenge ourselves to be considerate, fair and to re-think what great outcomes mean for our customers.

The itD Digital Experience: Joining us means you’ll be part of our global community, you have a say about your own career journey, and you’ll get a chance to give back to causes that matter. You will experience working with Fortune 500 companies and high-performance teams across numerous industries. itD offers our employees excellent benefits such as medical, dental, vision, life insurance, paid holidays, 401K + matching.