Site Reliability Engineer

We are seeking a highly motivated and skilled Mid-Level Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join our growing team. You will be responsible for ensuring the reliability, performance, and scalability of our critical infrastructure and applications running primarily on AWS. You will work closely with developers, DevOps engineers, and other stakeholders to optimize operations and implement automation. We are building the next generation platform that will scale to 1 billion users, and you can help us build it!

Responsibilities:

• Monitor and troubleshoot production systems to identify and resolve issues proactively.
• Design, develop, and deploy automation tools and scripts using tools like Ansible, Terraform, and Puppet to manage and configure resources, reducing manual toil and improving operational efficiency.
• Collaborate with developers on infrastructure design, capacity planning, and deployment strategies.
• Analyze system performance data and identify opportunities for optimization on the AWS platform.
• Implement and maintain configuration management tools like Chef, Ansible, or Terraform to ensure infrastructure consistency and reliability.
• Participate in incident response and on-call rotation for services.
• Contribute to documentation and knowledge sharing within the team, focusing on AWS best practices.
• Stay current with industry best practices and emerging technologies in the SRE and AWS space.

Qualifications:

• 3+ years of experience as an SRE or similar role, with at least 1 year focused on AWS environments.
• Proficient in Linux system administration and AWS services like EC2, S3, VPC, IAM, Route 53, etc.
• Strong understanding of infrastructure automation tools like Ansible, Terraform, and Puppet.
• Experience with containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes) and their integration with AWS a plus.
• Experience with monitoring and alerting tools like Prometheus, Grafana, AlertManager and PagerDuty
• Knowledge of distributed systems and performance optimization techniques.
• Experience with at least one scripting/programming language (PHP, Golang, Python) is required.
• Experience with Elasticsearch, Varnish, or other relevant technologies a plus.
• Experience with SQL, mySQL a plus
• Excellent communication, teamwork, and problem-solving skills.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment.

Benefits:

• Competitive salary and benefits package.
• Opportunity to work on challenging and impactful projects on AWS.
• Collaborative and supportive work environment.
• Continuous learning and development opportunities, including access to AWS certifications
• A meritocratic culture with the ability to take ownership and fast track your career.
• Weekly Town Halls with the all important Q&A session with the CEO (you really can ask him anything)!
• Friday lunches - We finish each week with a catered lunch. Every Friday we offer a different cuisine from local restaurants.
• Hack-a-thons - Get hacking and programming in this quarterly company-wide where teams create solutions to existing problems and win prizes. The 2-day event is filled with games, events, shows, food and more.
• Fun events (we once built a soccer stadium in the Sydney office with two tonnes of turf).
• Located at Grosvenor Place - Home of Freelancer HQ, an iconic building and location with amazing harbour views.

Just when you thought it couldn’t get any better:

• Change lives every day – Everything we do as part of our jobs contribute to improving the lives of our users on a global scale. Our mission is to provide one billion jobs. Not many companies actually make a difference like Freelancer does in providing opportunity and income to people all around the world.
• Fast-track your career - We boast a meritocratic culture, renowned for hiring into senior roles from within and producing many business and product leaders in the technology industry.

Who is Freelancer.com?

Twelve-time Webby award-winning Freelancer.com is the world’s largest freelancing and crowdsourcing marketplace by total number of users and projects posted with more than 50 million users who have posted 20 million jobs. We work with everyone from consumers to NASA in over 2,000 areas as diverse as website development, marketing, copywriting, astrophysics, aerospace engineering and manufacturing.

Freelancer owns Escrow.com, the world’s largest online escrow company with over US$6 billion in transactions secured, powering the sale of jet parts to oil wells. Freelancer also Loadshift, a marketplace with more freight on a typical day than the distance from the earth to the moon, with over 550 million kilometres posted since inception.

This won't be your typical cog-in-the-machine type of job. If you're a high achiever with talent, looking for something more than a boring job in corporate, want to work with the best and brightest and don't need to be handheld, this is the job for you.

If you join a mega-cap technology company as the 10,000th hire you might struggle to figure out the impact you are making. If you join a startup, you might get to work on the latest fad, but likely have few mentors to learn from, work on toy problems and never change the world.

At Freelancer you’ll get to work on a highly diverse, global set of internet-scale challenges where you will make a meaningful difference with real responsibility, while rapidly building your skills. We run a meritocracy - we actively promote from within.