Remote Site Reliability Engineer

Job description
MailerLite is one of the fastest-growing email marketing services. We help more than 1 million businesses around the world to keep in touch with their customers. Today, we are a team of more than 130 dreamers, adventurers, and world travelers passionate about what we do and believe in.And we are ready for another talented person to join the party.

We’re looking for a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) that is eager to maintain and improve our infrastructure. You’re knowledgeable in Docker and Kubernetes, and have experience with IaC tools. Furthermore, you’re a great team player with a positive attitude. 🚀

Why MailerLite?
Wondering why we think you’ll love working for MailerLite? Here are our favorite 6 reasons!

You’ll grow, develop and evolve
As part of a team that’s always looking for new, innovative ways to offer value for customers, you’ll constantly be experimenting, learning, and trying out new things. We’re also continuously maintaining and improving our infrastructure. You will work with Google Cloud, Kubernetes, and more.

You’ll be challenged with interesting tasks
Did you come up with an idea that could automate processes? We encourage you to share, own, and implement your ideas!

You’ll take ownership
We expect you to take full responsibility and ownership of your tasks. Team leads avoid micromanaging and minimize interruptions so you can stay focused on your assignments.

You’ll have experts on hand
Whenever you’re stuck, your teammates with a wide range of different expertise are ready to help you grow. And they’d love for you to share your knowledge too!

You’ll pick where you work, every day
We embrace the remote culture. Every day you get to choose what environment makes you most productive.

You’ll have stability
We value a stable workplace! MailerLite has been thriving for over 10 years and our year-over-year growth continues to increase.

What you’ll work with
System Architecture: Collaborating with SRE and developers to design and implement reliable, reproducible, scalable systems.
Deploy and release management: Develop processes and tooling around our existing CI CD frameworks for effective deployment and releases.
Monitoring and Alerting: Setting up and scaling our monitoring systems across multiple components and services, ensuring the swift action and timely responding to critical incidents.
Infrastructure Automation: developing and maintaining Infrastructure-as-code to automate the provisioning of infrastructure and resources.
Documentation: Creating and maintaining critical documentation, runbooks and operation knowledge base to facilitate effective incident response and troubleshooting.

What we offer

Yearly gross salary: $50,000-$80,000 (gross)
Remote-first culture with the team working remotely from all over the world
International health insurance provided with coverage in most countries. Monthly healthcare payout available in select countries where coverage is limited
Company-paid retreats. Once per year we gather for a week in an exotic location to work, learn and have fun together
31 days of vacation per year. We encourage you to unplug and recharge!
12 paid sick days for your physical and mental well-being, no doctor’s note required. Parents can use them to care for their sick children
4 creative days. One paid day off per quarter to do something creative and fun
12 parental days per year. Enjoy one paid day off each month to treasure time with your children
Parental leave. Enjoy paid bonding time at 100% of your salary when welcoming a new child into your family through birth or adoption – 3 months for primary caregivers and 1 month for secondary caregivers
Parenting budget of $1000. Celebrate the arrival of your little one, whether through childbirth or adoption, with a special gift from us
Joy Budget. Annual budget to spend on whatever that brings you joy
MacBook and other tools that’ll help you to do your job efficiently
Check the full list of our awesome benefits

Job requirements
Knowing Kubernetes and Helm is a must
Experience with IaC tools (any)
Experience with NGiNX, MySQL, PostgreSQL, PHP, Redis, ElasticSearch
Background in Linux/Unix
Experience with monitoring tools
Networking knowledge
You look for automation possibilities when doing redundant tasks
You’re a great team player with a positive attitude
You consistently want to learn more and improve your skills
Ability to quickly acquire technical and professional knowledge
Proficient verbal and written communication skills in English
You must be based in one of the following regions: Europe, Africa, or the Americas