Principal Site Reliability Engineer - Tools and Infrastructure

Dataminr in Remote - United Kingdom

Who we are:

Dataminr puts real-time AI and public data to work for our clients, generating relevant and actionable alerts for global corporations, public sector agencies, newsrooms, and NGOs. Our leading AI platform detects the earliest signals of high-impact events and emerging risks from vast amounts of publicly available information. Our real-time alerts enable tens of thousands of users at hundreds of public and private sector organizations to learn first of breaking events around the world, develop effective risk mitigation strategies, and respond with confidence as crises unfold.

Join our team and help the world manage risk in real time. You’ll work with 1,000+ talented people across eight offices, united by our passion to collaborate, make a difference, and have fun while doing it!

Who you are:

You are a skilled developer with a passion for infrastructure as a service including scalable and reliable systems, code quality, and engineering efficiency. As a Site Reliability Engineer, you will ensure the high-quality delivery of our software with a rapidly growing team, by building the frameworks and tools needed by software engineers and data scientists to thoroughly validate, deploy, and monitor their code.  In this role, you will be a champion for best practices and a quality mentor to the rest of the engineering organisation. A successful candidate will be a well-rounded engineer with experience in systems automation and tool development for a container based infrastructure, who thrives when solving diverse technical problems in a fast-paced environment.

In this role, you will:

  • Develop and maintain tools used by engineering for monitoring, event collection, and downtime tracking
  • Develop deployment and automation tools to manage a rapidly growing number of services
  • Drive improvements in security, scalability, reliability, and performance
  • Troubleshoot large-scale distributed systems (hardware, software, applications, and network)
  • Develop continuous integration systems and test frameworks
  • Work with other teams to gather requirements and disseminate to the rest of the team

What you've done before:

  • Extensive development using Python
  • Architected and implemented scalable and secure solutions on AWS
  • Operated container orchestration platforms e.g. AWS ECS/Fargate/EKS
  • Built and maintained self service platforms and tooling for developers
  • Developed reusable infrastructure as code modules for provisioning secure cloud infrastructure e.g. Terraform/CloudFormation
  • Deployed and operated log and metrics infrastructure based on Elasticsearch, Kibana and Grafana
  • Developed and operated serverless functions using AWS Lambda and gained experience using common deploy frameworks e.g. AWS SAM or serverless.com
  • Designed and implemented reliable CI/CD pipelines for deploying containers, serverless functions and cloud infrastructure



Why you should work here:

  • We recognise and reward hard work with:
    • competitive compensation package including equity
    • company paid benefits for employees and their dependents such as Health and Dental insurance, Vision Care and Income Protection and Life Insurance
    • pension with company match
  • We want you to be your best, authentic self by supporting you with:
    • a diverse, driven, and passionate team of coworkers who want you to succeed
    • individual learning and development fund and professional training
    • generous leave, including two additional volunteer days
    • remote working friendly perks such as expanded telehealth options for mental and physical wellbeing, meditation and health and fitness app reimbursements
    • discounted Gym Membership

…and this is just to name a few!

Dataminr is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. Individuals seeking employment at Dataminr are considered without regards to race, sex, colour, creed, religion, national origin, age, disability, genetics, marital status, pregnancy, unemployment status, sexual orientation, citizenship status or veteran status.

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