Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

We're Creative Fabrica, a fast-scaling tech start-up from Amsterdam.

Our mission

Enable creativity by giving access to everything related to the creative process: inspiration, learning, creating, and sharing. The ‘Creative Inspiration Flywheel’

This creates a self-sustaining community that lives within the Creative Fabrica ecosystem.

About the platform

We launched in 2016 as a marketplace for fonts with a subscription service. In the last 8 years, we have been through tremendous growth, and we're just getting started!

We have scaled to 50 million+ monthly page views, 8 million+ registrations, over 22 million listed products, and 22000+ active designers.

Our focus is to create a platform for designers that enables them to offer exceptional high-quality content. We make their products searchable in unique ways. This allows our customers to speed up their workflow, allowing them to focus on what they love most: Creating.

About the team:

SRE sits within the Platform function, the teams are focused on the Creative Fabrica infrastructure and foundational software components. That also includes dev experience, core domain services (foundational entities like identity management, authentication, authorization, sessions management, etc), and the content domain (management of lifecycle of all content items in the system). This is the foundation used by multiple feature teams at CF to build the end-user facing functionality and accelerate value delivery.

Our Tech Stack:

AWS, Terraform, Go, Kubernetes, CircleCI, FluxCD, Helm, Open Telemetry

What you will do:

  • Lead the transformation of our CI/CD pipeline, allowing our Engineers to truly develop and deploy with confidence, even on a Friday afternoon! 
  • Improve our site infrastructure to keep up with the company’s fast growth and technology evolution.
  • Lead the design and building of a fully automated, developer self-service platform.
  • Participate in pre-production and production site releases.
  • Participate in the on-call rotation and in the debugging of issues.
  • Identifying cost optimisation opportunities including but not limited to rightsizing, reservations, savings plans, wastage removal, and technology upgrades. 
  • Support our engineers to continuously improve code security and protect against vulnerabilities.

What you will need to have:

  • 4+ years operating and supporting a high-volume, high-performance, cloud-native distributed computing environment.
  • Proven experience with Terraform, Kubernetes and OpenTelemetry.
  • Experience with a wide array of Cloud-based services (AWS would be a strong preference).
  • Experience with driving SRE practices and developing automation solutions in a continuous deployment environment.
  • Experience with MySQL/Postgres.

We are looking for candidates who can bring specialist knowledge in one of the following 3 areas:

  • Knowledge of Vulnerability management tools and prior experience implementing these. 
  • Solid experience in designing complex CI/CD pipelines that involve QA. 
  • Experience in designing and building Developer Self-Service Platforms. 

It would be great if you could also bring:

  • Experience diagnosing complex production incidents in cloud-based applications and services.
  • Experience developing in PHP, Python, Typescript or Go.
  • Experience with performance and load testing.

Let us take care of you:

Compensation
We recognize and reward hard work, skill, and ambition. Your compensation will be made up of base salary plus an equity-based incentive plan.

We would also like to offer you:
  • Lunch: On days you work in the office a warm fresh lunch will be provided for you.
  • 24 days of paid vacation per year + public holidays.
  • Up to 15 days Work From Anywhere Benefit.
  • Travel Allowance, if you live more than 10 KM from the office.
  • Company pension plan.
  • CF Library
  • L&D for Tech Division
  • Company events and overseas trips!
  • New Joiner Swag Pack!



 

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Get in touch! We'd love to speak to you.

You can apply by clicking the "Apply now" button.

Creative Fabrica is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

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