Site Reliability Engineer

Sketch is where great design begins for designers and their teams around the world. Would you like to join us and help take the infrastructure that supports us to the next level? We're looking to expand our team with full-time **Site Reliability Engineers.**

**The job**
As a Site Reliability Engineer at Sketch, you will focus on **shaping our cloud infrastructure** and make sure all the pieces work well together: development environments, metrics processing and observability, security policies, network design, deployment strategies, high availability, etc.

You will **work closely with backend, frontend and Mac developers** to guarantee platform stability, and actively participate in the architecture and design of new projects.

**The stack**

Our cloud stack backend is based on containerised services and serverless, built on **Elixir** and **Go,** and exposing **GraphQL** and **REST** APIs, with most pieces deployed on **AWS** and automated through **Terraform.** Our backend services persist data in **PostgreSQL** databases and other minor services.

We use **Chef** for configuration management in the rare occasions when we need to configure instances for non-cloud services, and **Python** or **Go** for small programs or scripts, (e.g. to migrate data, run recurring jobs or automate operations).
Our monitoring, metrics and alerting stack includes **ELK** and **Datadog**, and we use **CircleCI** and **Github Actions** for CI/CD and testing.

**The challenge**
Due to our unique technology blend, you will find plenty of interesting challenges when working as an SRE at Sketch, such as:
Managing and helping autoscale our Renderfarm that currently processes more than 100k documents daily, using M1 Mac Minis.

Helping to design, maintain and battle test our real-time collaboration features, making sure we offer an incredible experience for our customers by extracting each ounce of performance from all layers of the stack: from HTTP requests, caching and WebSockets, to backend autoscaling and database performance.

Setting up, debugging and owning enterprise-oriented features such as Single-Sign-On and full-featured Sketch document embedding.

Working towards achieving full platform observability through curated metrics and actionable alerts, using the best open-source tools for the job.

**About you**

**About Sketch**
Sketch is a 100% remote company, and your colleagues are distributed around the globe. Being remote adds great flexibility, and helps us build a more diverse team. We put respect for each other above everything else.
Besides being remote we work asynchronously as often as we can. This means that our team communicates mostly using Slack and GitHub. When we need it, we also have video calls.

Our Technology team has more than 50 people today, split between Mac, Backend, Frontend, Infrastructure and QA. In particular, the Infrastructure team has 6 members. We work in multidisciplinary squads: people from different roles, including members of the Product team, work together on solving problems and delivering functionality for our customers.

**Essentials for the job**
- Professional experience **managing Linux-based and cloud-native distributed systems**
- Experience coding with **high-level programming languages like Python** for technical operations tasks and services automation
- Experience with **Infrastructure as Code** tools such as Terraform, and **configuration management tools** to automate manual operations
- A good understanding of the **HTTP protocol** and the behavior of **production web services**
- Excellent **communication skills** and a good written and spoken English
- Based in EU or UK

**We care about your well-being and your professional success, so we offer you**
- Full time employment, with a flexible schedule
- As many vacation days as you need
- Whatever training you need to develop in your job
- Private healthcare and gym reimbursements
- The laptop you need
- Company equity
- Paid family leave
- An annual company meetup

**Even if you're not able to tick all of these boxes**, we would still love to hear from you.

Even if you're not able to tick all of these boxes, we would still love to hear from you.