Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Sanity.io is the content operating system that replaces rigid legacy CMS, so forward-leaning companies like PUMA, Spotify, Figma, Riot Games, and Skims can create standout digital experiences for their customers.
It’s always peak hour somewhere: With infrastructure and clients spanning all continents, a Sanity SRE ensures that the solutions we build are scalable and fast, safe to deploy, and inspiring to use.
Our stack is built on a mix of the tried and tested and the bleeding edge. The core technologies we currently use include Kubernetes, Prometheus, ElasticSearch, PostgreSQL, NATS, Kong, and Google Cloud Platform.
The SRE role involves close partnership with our development teams to design and build infrastructure that supports our goal: to be the best platform for authoring, processing, and distributing content worldwide in real time. The role addresses the security, stability, and performance needs of our platform that our customers have come to expect.
What you will do:
- Plan and implement a global platform for delivering our software as a service.
- Diagnose and troubleshoot complex distributed systems.
- Ensure observability and analyze the behavior of our stack.
- Orchestration, deployment, monitoring, automation.
- Participate in our on-call rotation.
About you:
- Located in Europe.
- Proven experience with SRE/DevOps tools, processes, and culture.
- Proficient in programming languages like Python, Go, and TypeScript.
- 5+ years of experience participating in an SRE on-call rotation.
- Analytical mindset for designing, diagnosing, and optimizing infrastructure.
- Skilled in managing scalable, highly available, cloud-based applications.
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes for orchestrating, scaling, and managing containerized applications in the cloud.
- Strong database management skills, particularly with PostgreSQL.
- Experience with infrastructure as code, using tools like Terraform.
- Proficient in building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
- Familiarity with observability tools like Prometheus and similar stacks.
- Calm and clear-headed in incident and outage situations, with a thoughtful communication style for high-pressure environments.
- Open-minded yet discerning when it comes to exploring new technologies.
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What we can offer:
- A highly-skilled, inspiring, and supportive team
- Positive, flexible, and trust-based work environment that encourages long-term professional and personal growth
- A global, multi-culturally diverse group of colleagues and customers
- Comprehensive health plans and perks
- A healthy work-life balance that accommodates individual and family needs
- Competitive salary and stock options program
Who we are:
Sanity.io is a modern, flexible content operating system that replaces rigid legacy content management systems. One of our big differentiators is treating content as data, so it can be stored in a single source of truth, but seamlessly adapted and personalized for any channel without extra effort. Forward-thinking companies choose Sanity because they can create tailored content authoring experiences, customized workflows, and content models that reflect their business.
Backed by Netlify, Vercel, the founders of Twitter and Medium, Heroku’s ex-CEO, and leading VCs like ICONIQ Growth, Threshold Ventures, and Lead Edge Capital, Sanity is at the epicenter of the modern digital product development stack.
You can only build a great company with a great culture. Read about our values and join us in building a diverse and inclusive team.
Sanity.io pledges to be an organization that reflects the globally diverse audience that our product serves. We believe that in addition to hiring the best talent, a diversity of perspectives, ideas, and cultures leads to the creation of better products and services. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, or gender identity.