Site Reliability Engineer

Scalors GmbH is a software nearshoring company with a headquarter in Germany and development center in Kiev (Ukraine). We recruit and build software teams to work with our clients. We also find IT specialists for permanent employment in the D.A.CH. region and we take care of the entire process. On behalf of our client, we are looking for a Site Reliability Engineer who is an articulate, attentive and organized individual to solve problems in a dispersed, challenging and fast-paced organization.

Your role:

As a Site Reliability Engineer working on core production applications and infrastructure, your mission will be to ensure the product is always fast, available, scalable and engineered to withstand unparalleled demand. You will be in the thick of solving the problems of distributed systems across continents in a way most engineers never experience. As a successful candidate for this role you will have strong analytical and troubleshooting skills, fluency in coding and systems design, solid communication skills and a desire to tackle complex problems. We are particularly interested in software engineers familiar with aspects of running low latency distributed systems across continents – depth in either networking technologies and Unix system calls are strong pluses.

Responsibilities:

• Work in an engineering team to maintain systems and to be a guardian of the end-to-end performance and reliability of company’s services;
• Monitor site stability and performance and troubleshoot issues across the entire stack – software, application and network;
• Pro-active monitoring and risk mitigation activities to ensure minimization of critical production issues and recurring problems;
• Team player who is able to take on responsibility and execute tasks independently under pressure in our production environment;
• Collaborate with developers to bring new features and services along with Hot-fixes into production;
• Take part in a shared 24×7 on-call rotation.

Appreciated Skills:

• Java programming skills (3+ years) and knowledge about its core libraries. Good knowledge of object-oriented analysis and design patterns. Used to unit-test your code.
• Expertise in analyzing and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems with good knowledge of concurrency and synchronization issues/techniques in a multi-threaded environment.
• Strong knowledge of distributed multithreaded systems, messaging technologies and databases.
• Strong understanding and experience with handling Unix/Linux platforms. Should be comfortable with maintaining a large-scale service platform.
• Experience with system performance tuning at all levels (including Java/JVM, SQL, buffer management, etc.)
• Experience with performance-engineering for low-latency applications with practical knowledge of shell scripting in various languages (like Python).
• Should have strong interpersonal skills and the ability to collaborate across teams and skill levels.
• Financial industry or comparable experience is a plus.
• High level of spoken English.

We are looking for talented and passionate people who are ready to take a chance and make the difference. If you are a fresh thinker with plenty ideas to offer, please, send your application to us!