Site Reliability Engineer

Job description

### Better Money Strike is the Bitcoin company. With Strike, you can buy and sell bitcoin, pay bills, and borrow against your holdings. From individuals to businesses, Strike is purpose-built for every step of the Bitcoin journey. Available in more than 100 countries — including the U.S., Europe, Latin America, and Africa — Strike is building a better financial system powered by Bitcoin. Bitcoin is better money. Strike is how you use it. ### Role We are seeking a highly experienced Site Reliability Engineer located in Europe, with a strong track record of tackling complex reliability and scalability challenges, and a history of providing technical guidance to teams. If you're a seasoned problem-solver with a passion for automation and operational excellence, and enjoy elevating the skills of those around you, we want to hear from you. ### **While we’re not actively hiring for this role at the moment, we’re always interested in connecting with great people and building our talent pool for future opportunities.** ### **What You'll Do:** - **Lead Technical Initiatives:** Drive key technical initiatives focused on improving the reliability, performance, and scalability of our critical systems, often leading technical aspects within projects. - **Architect and Implement Advanced Solutions:** Design and implement sophisticated resilient and scalable solutions, leveraging your deep understanding of distributed systems. - **Master Troubleshooting and Optimization:** Lead complex troubleshooting efforts, identify deep-seated root causes, and implement advanced optimizations. - **Build and Evangelize Automation:** Develop and champion the adoption of robust automation frameworks and tools, potentially guiding more junior engineers in their development. - **Elevate Observability Practices:** Design and implement comprehensive and insightful monitoring and logging solutions, ensuring actionable insights are available across teams. - **Provide Leadership in Incident Management:** Take a leadership role in incident response, providing critical technical direction and mentorship during high-pressure situations. - **Champion Post-Mortem Excellence:** Lead and contribute to in-depth blameless post-mortem analyses, driving significant improvements based on learnings. - **Mentor and Guide Team Members:** Share your extensive knowledge and experience to mentor and guide other SREs and engineers, fostering their technical growth. ### **What We're Looking For:** - Extensive experience with minimum **5 years** in SRE, platform engineering, or software development with a strong operational focus. - Demonstrated experience in providing technical leadership, guidance, or mentorship to engineering teams. - Expert-level practical knowledge of cloud platforms, especially GCP. - Deep hands-on experience with container orchestration (Kubernetes) and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Helm, ArgoCD). - Strong command of multiple scripting and programming languages (Python, Go, Bash). - Proven expertise in building and leveraging advanced monitoring and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack). - Exceptional analytical, problem-solving, and debugging skills at a senior level. - Excellent communication, collaboration, and influencing skills. - Organizational and leadership skills are a big plus ### **Compensation and Benefits:** - Location dependent We do not make hiring decisions based on educational history whatsoever. Our Founder is a college dropout. We work with high school dropouts, PHD candidates and everything in-between. We do not hire credentials. We simply partner with talented, passionate individuals who are excited to be a part of our team. By clicking submit application below, you consent to our use and processing of your data as described in our [Candidate Privacy Notice](https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/197KDuOgvfy-DFFDyLZErp1KGtIcAOwaZwQd2lkQFkE0/edit). ***Use of AI.** Strike uses AI-assisted tools to help review, assess, and verify applications and support the integrity of our recruitment process. A human is always involved in our hiring decisions — we do not rely on automated processing alone.*