Senior Site Reliability Engineer

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<text>Bolt engineering teams are working on unique product challenges: complex algorithms for demand prediction, optimal real-time pricing, routing, fraud detection, distributed systems, and much more. Volumes are growing at a steady pace. Our Site Reliability teams are dealing with different challenges, from managing our stateful workloads and services that keep Bolt backend services running, to our Cloud infrastructure!

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<title>About us</title>

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Bolt is one of the fastest-growing tech companies in Europe and Africa, with over 100 million customers in 45+ countries. We’re a global team of more than 100 nationalities joined on a common mission – to make cities for people, not cars. And we need you to make it happen!

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<title>About the role</title>

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Bolt engineering teams are working on unique product challenges: complex algorithms for demand prediction, optimal real-time pricing, routing, fraud detection, distributed systems, and much more. Volumes are growing at a steady pace. The Site Reliability Data team is managing stateful workloads and services that keep Bolt backend services running and our Site Reliability Cloud team is ensuring the stability, security, and cost-efficiency of our Cloud infrastructure.

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• <point>Working with stateful systems, that handle terabytes of data, and millions of requests per second</point>
• <point>Developing automation and implementing internal systems, processes, and best practices to increase productivity in Bolt</point>
• <point>Participating in deep architectural discussions to ensure solutions are designed for successful deployment, security, and availability</point>
• <point>Collaborating with other SRE Engineers and Software Engineers</point>
• <point>Troubleshooting production system issues to make Bolt services more reliable</point>
• <point>Making sure all main services are measured, monitored, and covered by alerting systems</point>
• <point>Participating in on-call activities for the most critical parts of the infrastructure, helping to solve incidents in no-blaming culture</point>

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<title>About you:</title>

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• <point>You have 5+ years of experience in systems engineering</point>
• <point>You have in-depth knowledge of Linux troubleshooting, including networking, file systems, security, and the kernel</point>
• <point>You have a solid understanding of large-scale distributed systems</point>
• <point>You are experienced with handling stateful services such as Elasticsearch, Redis, or Prometheus</point>
• <point>You are experienced with platforms such as AWS EC2, AWS EKS, or Kubernetes</point>
• <point>You have experience with infrastructure automation tools, such as Kubernetes, Terraform, and Ansible</point>
• <point>You understand the DevOps and Scrum way of working</point>
• <point>You are a team player, with good communication skills, that works well with others in the group and the rest of the organization</point>

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Experience is great, but we really look for drive, intelligence, and integrity. So even if you don’t tick every box, please consider applying if you feel you’re the kind of person described above!
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<title>Why you’ll love it here:</title>

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• <point>Play a direct role in shaping the future of mobility.</point>
• <point>Impact millions of customers and partners in 500+ cities across 45 countries.</point>
• <point>Work in fast-moving autonomous teams with some of the smartest people in the world. </point>
• <point>Accelerate your professional growth with unique career opportunities.</point>
• <point>Get a rewarding salary and stock option package that lets you focus on doing your best work.</point>
• <point>Enjoy the flexibility of working in a hybrid mode.</point>
• <point>Take care of your physical and mental health with our wellness perks.</point>

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<text>*Some perks may differ depending on your location.</text>
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