Site Reliability Engineer

Job Description

FareHarbor, a Booking.com Company, is looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to join our Infrastructure team, on-location in our office in Amsterdam. We’re a quickly growing company with a robust product that tens of thousands of people use to run their businesses every day. (Here’s a little more about our Product team, here’s a recent article about FareHarbor in Hawaii Business Magazine.)

You will be responsible for building infrastructure at FareHarbor — ensuring uptime, scaling as we grow, and improving deployment and provisioning tooling to help us continue to develop and launch new features every day.

What you’ll do

• Manage and monitor our various clusters in AWS.
• Automate all the things!
  • Improve our existing Ansible-based deployment tooling.
  • Improve our existing Terraform-based provisioning tooling.
• Ensure uptime via eliminating single points of failure.
• Work closely with the rest of the infrastructure and product teams to launch features.

You should

• Have mastery of at least one programming language (Python is a plus).
• Have experience with cloud-based infrastructure providers, ideally Amazon.
• Have experience and a strong interest in automating infrastructure and monitoring, with tools and services like Ansible, Terraform, Chef, New Relic, etc.
• Have experience analyzing systems for weaknesses, developing sound plans for addressing them, and then implementing those plans.
• Be security-minded.
• Be careful and meticulous when necessary, and pragmatic always.

Benefits

• 26 vacation days per year (based on 40 hours per week).
• Commuting allowance: Pension Plan
• Discounted Health Insurance Benefit
• Relocation Assistance (if applicable)
• Central Amsterdam Location
• Social Hours & Events

When applying

If possible include references to a project you’ve written, whether it’s code to spin up some infrastructure or serve a web application — perhaps an Ansible module, Chef recipe, or simple Bash script?