Superbalist - Site Reliability Software Engineer

Superbalist

Cape Town, ZA

13h ago

Superbalist.com is a fast-growing online fashion business based in South Africa. We’re obsessive about our high performance yet collaborative culture and are looking for leaders to join our team.

We think big, move fast, take ownership and are used to winning. We’re lucky to be surrounded by colleagues who are experts in their field, working together to create a world class brand.

We are looking for a Site Reliability Software Engineer to work on our Platform team, who has initiative and is comfortable taking ownership over assigned projects while working collaboratively in a team environment.

The Site Reliability Engineer will need to work with technical colleagues and must be comfortable gathering and organising information into a sensible action plan.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES / RESPONSIBILITIES

Design, develop and test code written in Python, working on a platform in Python and bash.

Building tooling around DevOps and Software Engineering best practices

Draft technical specifications and briefs

Monitor latency, performance, efficiency, and change management.

Passionate about improving resilience and observability of distributed systems

Perform code reviews

Maintain and improve code quality

Write and deploy robust and backwards compatible code

KEY REQUIREMENTS

Minimum 2 years experience in a development, systems administration, DevOps, SRE role or similar

Knowledge of CompSci theory (networking, databases, data structures, algorithms, cloud computing, security, code design, distributed systems and testing)

Version control experience (Git preferred)

NICE TO HAVE

Service and event driven architectures experience (PubSub)

B.Sc in Computer Science, Electrical (& Computer) Engineering or a related field

Experience with e-commerce based applications

Google Cloud experience (Compute Engine / Kubernetes Engine / App Engine / BigQuery / CloudSQL / etc)

COMPETENCIES

Strong problem solving and analytical skills

Strong drive for results

Be comfortable working within a team

Good communication skills

Build and maintain relationships

BENEFICIAL EXPERIENCE

Required skills (development background) :

Experience working in a containerised environment (Docker & Kubernetes preferred)

Experience working in a Mac / Linux environment

Proficiency in an OO programming language (PHP / Python / NodeJS / Go)

Relational Database systems experience (MySQL / PostgreSQL preferred)

Required skills (system administration background or similar) :

Experience setting up and deploying containerised environments (Docker & Kubernetes preferred)

Web application framework configuration (Django / Laravel / etc)

Common web stack applications (nginx / memcached / Varnish / RabbitMQ / Redis / etc)

Shell scripting

Setting up CI / CD tools (Jenkins preferred)

Metrics & monitoring systems (Prometheus / Grafana / NewRelic / ElasticAPM / etc)

Superbalist is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants from the previously disadvantaged groups and people with disabilities will be given preference.

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