Hybrid Site Reliability Engineer

at Dovetail

• Job title: Site Reliability Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: AWS, GraphQL, Postgres, Terraform, TypeScript
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Sydney, Australia

About the role

• Site Reliability Engineer enhancing Dovetail's platform for AI-driven customer insights. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure operational excellence and support customer needs.

Responsibilities

• Join our platform engineering team. You'll be a crucial part of our platform team, working closely with your engineering manager, technical product manager, and other engineers to evolve our internal systems and platforms.
• Own the technologies that power our engineering. You'll be responsible for cross-cutting technologies that support all Dovetail engineers in delivering value to our customers. You’ll directly impact delivery performance, developer experience, reliability, and the end-to-end customer experience by delivering excellent internal products.
• Support high-quality product infrastructure. Working with your team, you'll participate in the design and implementation of technical solutions for Dovetail’s platform, including infrastructure, application foundations, developer tooling, CI/CD, and observability.
• Help mature our operational health. You’ll bring an SRE mindset to promote operational practices within our platform and product teams. Your hard work will support state-of-the-art reliability and performance for our rapidly growing customer base.
• Support other engineers. We're scaling quickly, so you'll work with others to continually improve our software practices through code review, pair programming, design sparring, and career growth.
• Foster a culture of pragmatism. You'll maintain and foster a pragmatic approach to software development while also collaborating towards establishing detailed guidelines and standards for product development processes based on industry best practices and your experience.

Requirements

• Experience in platform engineering. You'll have experience with technologies similar to TypeScript, GraphQL, Aurora PostgreSQL, AWS, containerization (EKS or ECS), serverless technologies, developer tooling, and infrastructure-as-code (Pulumi and Terraform). While you don’t need to be a master of our technology stack, you’re a fast learner and understand relevant concepts.
• You’re a disciplined operator. You’re a strong owner, who’s used to owning the platform reliability, performance security for high growth platforms. You hold a high bar on ensuring that we keep our test and release, and operational hygiene in a good state, so everyone can sleep well.
• Experience working on platform projects. You'll have the ability to play a significant role in the delivery of complex features, understand requirements, and drive quality.
• You are pragmatic and flexible. Like your new teammates, you're used to doing what's necessary to get the job done. You'll need to be comfortable with ambiguity, operate with high independence, be resourceful in solving problems, and be able to adjust to shifting deadlines and project goals.
• When you do it, you nail it. You share our keen eye for quality. You don't half-ass your work, instead what you ship is top-notch. You cut scope before cutting quality.
• Excellent, concise communicator. You can easily convey your thoughts, opinions, and feelings with your platform team and have the ability to articulate effort vs impact tradeoffs.
• You know how to build great software. 5 years+ of software engineering experience in software engineering, with a minimum of 3 years in SRE, DevOps or equivalent teams. You have a bachelor of computer science or equivalent industry experience, and possess strong knowledge of software engineering fundamentals and operational best practices.

Benefits

• Equity for everyone. Along with a competitive base salary, we offer options to keep us focused on driving long-term impact.
• An environment designed for doing your best work, wherever you are. Our Sydney office is designed to maximize in-person first collaboration, while our US team is supported with a flexible remote set up.
• Join our community. Find your people in a Doveclub, bond with your team on the regular, celebrate small wins, big milestones and cultural events with the whole company.
• Learn & Thrive. Quench your thirst for knowledge with our generous L&D allowance or get support to Thrive, not just survive, using our wellness budget.
• Ample PTO. Time off for the hard work you put in. 4 weeks accrued leave, floating public holidays and additional Kit Kat days throughout the year.
• Work from anywhere. Up to 4 weeks per year to do your job anywhere in the world.
• Generous parental leave. We offer up to 20 weeks of paid parental leave to support new parents.
• 4 weeks at 4 years. 4 years is a long time in tech, and we value loyalty. Take a well-earned break of 4 weeks off on Dovetail.
• Stellar benefits for those located in the US. Comprehensive health, dental, vision, 401(K) and more offered through Sequoia.