Hopper · 2 months ago
Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) - Platform Infrastructure team (100% Remote - Ireland)
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior LevelHopper is looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join their Platform Infrastructure team, which builds and operates the cloud foundation for their products. The role involves improving platform tooling, driving automation, and supporting engineering teams to ensure a reliable and scalable infrastructure.
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Responsibilities
Improve and evolve platform tooling to support a growing number of services and teams across Hopper
Design infrastructure workflows that are simple, consistent, and scalable — enabling engineers to build and deploy with confidence
Drive automation across key infrastructure components, reducing manual work and increasing reliability
Adapt and scale infrastructure offerings to meet the needs of product teams while maintaining a cohesive and maintainable platform
Participate in incident response for platform-level issues as part of a globally distributed, sustainable on-call rotation (with team coverage across the Americas and Europe)
Support engineering teams by troubleshooting platform issues, answering infrastructure-related questions, and reviewing pull requests that affect core systems
Collaborate with a small, high-impact team of SREs, focused on operational excellence, performance, and developer experience
Qualification
Required
Professional experience in SRE, DevOps, Software Engineering, or Systems Engineering, with a passion for building reliable, scalable infrastructure
Strong troubleshooting and incident response skills across distributed systems and cloud-native environments
Solid system design and analytical thinking, with a focus on simplicity, performance, and maintainability
Clear and effective communication skills, with the ability to collaborate across engineering teams
Hands-on experience with major cloud platforms — ideally Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
Deep familiarity with Infrastructure as Code, preferably using Terraform
Experience building and operating with containers and Kubernetes, and tools like Helm or Kustomize
Working knowledge of Service Mesh technologies, preferably Istio
Solid understanding of networking fundamentals — DNS, TLS, certificates, ingress controllers, etc
Knowledge of cloud and infrastructure security best practices, including IAM, RBAC, and network segmentation
Familiarity with authentication and authorization protocols and technologies
Experience with observability stacks — logs, metrics, tracing, and APM (preferably using Datadog)
Practical knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation
Exposure to database technologies, both SQL and NoSQL
Comfortable writing scripts in Bash, Python, or similar scripting languages to automate routine tasks and build tooling
Benefits
Hopper offers a monthly cash allowance to supplement costs related to private Medical, Dental and/or Life insurance coverage.
Employees in Ireland have the option to contribute to a PRSA (private retirement savings account) with Irish Life.
Please ask us about our very generous parental leave, much above industry standards!
Unlimited PTO.
Flexdesk Access Pass AND Work-from-home stipend.
Carrot Cash travel stipend.
Company
Hopper
Hopper est une startup française de l'économie sociale et solidaire.
Founded in 2021
2-10 employees
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