Site Reliability Engineer

Lendo is well established in the Nordics and is looking to grow in Europe and beyond. Multiple markets introduce many opportunities to explore challenging and fun solutions to scaling and automation.

To support future growth, we are currently looking for an experienced software engineer interested in infrastructure and automation. As Site Reliability Engineering is a new discipline at Lendo, you will join a small team and have the chance to shape and advocate the SRE culture across the different engineering teams at Lendo.

You will join an organization that believes in a psychologically safe environment that encourages feedback and supports its engineers in learning and growing. You will be working hands-on with operations, incident management, and software development to ensure the reliability and resilience of the Lendo products across different markets.

In this role, you will

• Solve engineering problems using software development practices

• Design and develop our cloud infrastructure

• Collaborate with the security teams to perform risk analyses, assessment, and mitigation

• Improve observability such as monitoring and alerting

• Contribute to incident management

What we have been doing for the last six months

• Established three markets in Google Cloud Platform

• Deployed Kubernetes, RabbitmQ, PostgreSQL, Istio, Envoy, and many more, using Terraform

• Improved monitoring, logging and alerting using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Stackdriver and Humio

• Access management improvements

Some things we will be doing

• Improving the developer experience using self-service and automation

• Drive the architecture design of our new global platform that will scale among multiple markets

• Identity and access management, and auditing

• Define and implement SLIs and SLOs for our infrastructure and the Lendo platform

• Enabling and training engineering teams with DevOps

• Migrate our remaining two market infrastructures from Openstack to Google Cloud Platform

• Playing the Elevation of Privilege card game to assess and improve the security and compliance of our infrastructure products

We offer

• An international environment with teammates from more than 20 countries

• A self-organizing team

• Organized hackathons, knowledge-sharing events, and opportunities to join global conferences

• Opportunities for skills development through the Schibsted Learning platform and a dedicated budget for competence development

• 4000 SEK of health promotion allowance

• You can leave work for one hour to go training every week

• A wellness program, if you want to do yoga, meditation, running, and other activities with coaches and colleagues

• 30 days of paid leave

• A central location in Stockholm with a fabulous rooftop view - however, most of us are currently working from home

• An employee shares savings plan at Schibsted

There’s no such thing as a perfect candidate, so don’t let requirements hold you back. You don’t need 100% of the preferred qualifications to add incredible value to our team. Our customers come from all different backgrounds, and so do our employees. If you’re passionate about what you could accomplish here, we’d love to hear from you.

We believe you have/are

• A software engineer with a DevOps mindset or operations engineer with experience in software development

• Experience in application development, data storage, and cloud infrastructure.

• Understanding of the software delivery lifecycle, experience with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery such as GitOps

• Familiar with infrastructure as code (e.g. Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible)

• Worked with cloud deployment, monitoring, and operation analysis tools

• Team mentality and willingness to share knowledge and ideas

• Great communication skills, written and verbal

• Fluent in English

It's a plus if you have

• Knowledge of the Go programming language (Go is the most commonly used programming language at Lendo)

• Experience with Service Discovery/Mesh

• Interest in security best practices

• In-depth knowledge of Kubernetes, Google Cloud Platform

A background check will be performed before employment.