Lead Site Reliability Engineer

Requirements

• A bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• Deep knowledge of Linux (we run Ubuntu) and all layers of the networking stack. You should be confident discussing in detail what’s going on under the hood.
• Comfortable with large scale production systems and technologies, for example load balancing, monitoring, distributed systems, and configuration management.
• A track record of designing and executing small to medium scale systems automation projects with strong autonomy.
• Strong Security mindset.
• Strong coding skills in at least one programming language, and a desire to pick up more.
• Familiarity with and enthusiasm for software engineering best practices such as testing, continuous integration and continuous delivery.
• A passion for elegantly solving problems using open source software whenever possible, avoiding complex solutions and reinventing wheels.
• A passion for contributing to open source software, fixing bugs and implementing features.
• The ability to thrive in a rapidly evolving, globally distributed environment. Responsibilities
• Own, as part of a small cross functional squad, a particular infrastructure problem space at Spotify: ensuring Spotify has a secure, reliable, highly available perimeter and service discovery infrastructure.
• Design, implement and drive internal adoption of infrastructure perimeter and service discovery products.
• Architect, design and document systems, including writing and reviewing code.
• Undertake measured, methodical, troubleshooting of complicated systems under pressure.
• Partake in an on-call rotation alongside the engineers who build our production backends.
• Meet availability SLAs for the services your squad owns, contributing directly to Spotify global availability.

Requirements

• A bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• Deep knowledge of Linux (we run Ubuntu) and all layers of the networking stack. You should be confident discussing in detail what’s going on under the hood.
• Comfortable with large scale production systems and technologies, for example load balancing, monitoring, distributed systems, and configuration management.
• A track record of designing and executing small to medium scale systems automation projects with strong autonomy.
• Strong Security mindset.
• Strong coding skills in at least one programming language, and a desire to pick up more.
• Familiarity with and enthusiasm for software engineering best practices such as testing, continuous integration and continuous delivery.
• A passion for elegantly solving problems using open source software whenever possible, avoiding complex solutions and reinventing wheels.
• A passion for contributing to open source software, fixing bugs and implementing features.
• The ability to thrive in a rapidly evolving, globally distributed environment.

The employment is on minimum two year or permanent and we pay a monthly wage of above SEK 50 000. We want to connect millions of people with their favorite songs and create a service that people love to use. As a Site Reliability Engineer working on Spotify’s Site Reliability Engineering Team, your mission will be to ensure Spotify is always fast, available, and scalable.