Site Reliability Engineer II

About the role

We are looking for engineers who will work within the SRE team to focus on supporting the service teams on their automation and Infrastructure level requirements, by increasing monitoring and alerting capabilities, CI/CD and Kubernetes adaptations and enabling them to take cloud-native technology to the next level within Careem. 

We need expert, execution-focused engineers to help shape the future of the Careem platform and to help us scale our already sizable effort greatly. 

As an SRE in Careem, you'll architect, build and maintain several Infrastructure level components and its corresponding ecosystem required to ensure resilience, reliability of our services and speed up deployments with the aim of improving our products used by millions of customers every day. Key responsibilities include:

• Make an impact from design phase, through development and operation of service teams and its ecosystem on AWS
• Build core services, tooling and create technical processes that simplify and enable engineers across multiple services and multiple environments
• Identifying and automating and scale systems without compromising on security and reliability
• Participate in on-call rotations and help improve incident response 

What you’ll need

• 4+ years of software engineering and/or operations and/or infrastructure experience
• Expertise and experience in architecting, developing, operating and troubleshooting services  and/or other highly available systems at scale
• Good knowledge of at least one of the following programming languages: Go, Python, Java, Bash
• Experience with Cloud Infrastructure (AWS preferred)
• Experience with infrastructure automation (Infrastructure as Code) (Terraform or AWS Cloud Formation)
• Strong Unix or Linux background, including topics around network stack and scripting
• Incident response and/or incident management experience is a plus
• Experience on DevOps topics such as monitoring, CI/CD, Jenkins, security, Kubernetes is a plus
• Effective communication and collaboration skills: have the ability to drive and promote technical partnerships across teams

What will keep you busy?

• Work within a lean team in quick iterations on large impactful projects
• Collaborate with teams to deliver an efficient cloud-native platform
• Ensure infrastructure is scalable, responsive, and reliable
• Automate everything with tools and workflows
• Evaluate and select tools and technologies needed for efficient support of the systems
• Keep our solutions cost-effective by improving performance and increasing utilization

What do we offer you?

Working in an international environment with colleagues from 70+ nationalities, ownership culture, flexible working hours, unlimited (paid!) holidays and the latest technologies.

Careem gives equal opportunities. All aspects of ownership including the decision to hire, promote, discipline, or discharge, will be based on merit, competence, performance, and business needs. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for everyone.