BACKEND / SRE ENGINEER (MID/SENIOR)

Job summary

Sparta is seeking a Backend/SRE Engineer to design and build backend services while ensuring their reliability and performance. The role involves a 50/50 split between backend engineering and reliability engineering, with a focus on optimizing data processing and operational health.

Qualifications

• 4+ years as a software or reliability engineer with production systems experience
• Genuine interest in both backend and reliability engineering
• Strong in at least one of Kotlin, Java, Python, or TypeScript
• Solid understanding of AWS services
• Hands-on experience with infrastructure as code
• Practical experience with Kubernetes workloads
• Experience with CI/CD tooling
• Experience in production incident response
• Experience defining or working to service-level objectives
• Comfortable with agent-based development tools
• Clear communicator and pragmatic problem-solver

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain backend services for real-time and analytical data processing
• Optimize pipelines and services for low latency, high throughput, and scale
• Own features end to end, from shaping the approach to running them in production
• Contribute to design reviews with a clear view on trade-offs
• Own operational health of services and define metrics for health
• Improve observability, monitoring, and alerting in Datadog
• Participate in incident response and address root causes
• Work with runtime across Lambda, ECS, and EKS
• Operate data and streaming infrastructure
• Extend infrastructure as code in AWS CDK and CI/CD pipelines
• Reduce toil by automating manual tasks and minimizing incidents

Skills

Relocation