Site Reliability Engineer / Senior SRE (f/m/x)

As part of Adevinta's global teams, the Trust and Connecting department offers expertise and solutions to resolve user and marketplaces' security and transaction issues, helping millions of online users to trade securely every day.

Within the "Trust and Connecting" division, the Serenity team plays a key role in achieving our "Most Trusted" objective, building and operating the moderation and fraud detection component used by our marketplaces worldwide. Serenity has been a great success since its launch; it is currently integrated in 10 marketplaces and uses the latest Machine Learning techniques to moderate over 20 million events per day. Our team is distributed in Paris, Vienna, Amsterdam, Barcelona and made of 10+ nationalities; this position is located in Barcelona - Poblenou (22@).

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), you will be responsible for ensuring and improving the reliability of a scalable, state-of-the-art system. You will collaborate with the team to build solid technological expertise and shared business knowledge. If you like being part of a team of engineers involved from ideation to production start-up and operations monitoring, working with the latest technologies with a technologically independent mindset, and being part of an international environment, you could be the person we're looking for. You'll be part of a team that works with full ownership of solutions, which means you'll have a direct impact on our roadmap and help shape the way we work.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain a state-of-the-art system at scale (we operate around 100 microservices)

• Be part of a cross-functional team working with full ownership of the solution (from ideation to operationalization).

• Operate, maintain existing infrastructure and ensure its evolution (1800+ Kubernetes pods, large RDS, Elasticsearch or Redis clusters)

• Ensure that CI/CD processes always deliver the best possible developer experience (we currently use Spinnaker, Github Enterprise, Travis CI, Artifactory)

• Continuously monitor the health and quality of our systems, while ensuring their stability and security.

• Encourage and build automation wherever possible

• Constantly improve our work processes and encourage best practices.

• Keep abreast of the latest technologies in distributed systems and cloud technology.

• Strong problem-solving skills

Qualifications

• Excellent written and oral communication skills (B2+ English level required)

• Solid understanding of Cloud solutions (specifically AWS)

• Significant experience with distributed systems, microservices architectures and observability concepts

• Knowledge of technologies used on a daily basis (AWS, Kubernetes, Helm, Kafka, Elasticsearch, Redis, Postgres, DynamoDB, Datadog, Grafana, ...) 

• Ability to write Python 3 code or code in any similar language

Experience of working collaboratively with geographically distributed teams would be a plus

Benefits :

• Yearly training budget

• In the Barcelona office, we offer free breakfast and drinks. You can also choose to eat the freshly prepared menu of the day in our canteen.

The steps : 

• 1st phone screening with Recruiter

• Technical interview focusing on System and Infrastructure Design (remote / VC)

• Technical interview focusing on Coding skills (remote / VC)

• Culture fit interview with the Hiring Manager and Recruiter (remote or onsite)

• An attractive Base Salary.
• Participation in our Short Term Incentive plan (annual bonus).
• Employee Stock Purchase Program with a match from Adevinta.
• Work From Anywhere: Enjoy up to 20 days a year of working from anywhere! Maybe not from the moon - well why not! just make sure you have internet connection!
• A 24/7 Employee Assistance Program for you and your family, because we care.
• Win together, lose together is one of our key behaviours. At Adevinta you will find a collaborative environment with an opportunity to explore your potential and grow.