Site Reliability Engineer
Sydney, Australia
Description
About the Role:
You will join a small team of versatile infrastructure engineers who are responsible for designing, building, and operating the mission-critical cloud platform powering various businesses within the enterprise. You will work with highly scalable FL/OSS services (Linux, MySQL, Nginx, ElasticSearch, Redis, RabbitMQ, Consul) running on Amazon Web Services (AWS), and will be building highly resilient, dynamically scaling, self-healing systems by automating infrastructure management with Terraform and Puppet. We are building the next generation platform that will scale to 1 billion users, and you can help us build it!
Requirements:
- Strong understanding of operating systems, networking and systems architecture;
- Strong experience working with Linux as well as database, web, and file servers at scale in production environments;
- Strong experience with any cloud, virtualization, and/or container services (AWS, GCP, Azure, VMware, OpenStack, Docker, Kubernetes, Docker Swarm, AWS ECS);
- Experience working with any configuration management and infrastructure orchestration tools such as Puppet, Chef, Ansible, CloudFormation or Terraform;
- Programming experience with any of Python, Go, PHP, Ruby;
- A security-focused mindset and experience with incident response;
- University Degree in Computer Science/Engineering (or related) is preferred;
Benefits:
- 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 event 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.
- 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?
Twelve-time Webby award-winning Freelancer 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 owns 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.
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