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.