Varo’s SRE team is well established, designing, building, and running large-scale, distributed, fault-tolerant systems that power most of Varo's operations. We live and breathe AWS and Kubernetes, having an open source first and result oriented mindset. We are an automation and observability focused team and we strive to automate ourselves out of manual / remedial tasks. We monitor and create dashboards to promote a data-driven approach to scale out our platform. On a typical day, members of our team are hands-on scaling-out production infrastructure, building out CI/CD pipelines, and brainstorming with developers on how to make things better. We collectively strive to build and maintain a rapid-feedback platform that enables our engineers to accomplish their own goals instead of creating friction.
What you'll be doing
Take ownership of the availability and resiliency of Varo's cloud-based infrastructure; design and maintain disaster recovery scenarios; design self-healing and resiliency patternsWrite and maintain infrastructure as code for core systems (Terraform, Terraform modules and Kubernetes helm charts); build and maintain CI/CD pipelinesImprove observability and monitoring across Varo's infrastructure by implementing advanced tools and technologiesCreate and maintain monitoring dashboards, alerts, and log systems to quickly identify and resolve issuesImplement advanced observability tools like distributed tracing and anomaly detection for deeper system insights and efficient troubleshootingHelp lead high-profile incidents and facilitate blameless post-mortemsCollaborate with development teams to implement and improve SLIs and SLOs for their services and to promote service ownershipUse monitoring data to drive actionable insights and contribute to incident response strategiesAutomate operational tasks to save time and improve accuracyWrite clean and scalable scripts, software and systems to manage platform infrastructure and applicationsYou’ll bring the following required skills and experiences
8+ years as a Site Reliability, DevOps, or Software Engineer with proficiency in one or more high-level languages (such as Python, GoLang, Ruby, Java, or JavaScript) requiredExcellent Linux and troubleshooting skillsExperience in building and supporting high-availability cloud environments in AWSExperience using Infrastructure as code (IaC) and deployment automation with tools such as Terraform, Helm, Gitlab or equivalentExperience running Kubernetes in productionIstio experience is a plusExperience with monitoring, logging and tracing tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger/Tempo, ELK/Loki, OpenTelemetryExperience instrumenting code (Java/Kotlin, Python, Go, etc.) and creating simple instrumentation frameworks for developers to adopt where auto instrumentation may fall shortParticipate in an on-call rotation for after-hours production infrastructure incidentsExperience with SDLC, CI/CD, and related toolingKafka experience is a plus
