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Role Description

As our first SRE you will have a hands-on role:

• Managing our cloud services on GCP and CloudFlare
• Ensuring we meet our SLOs
• Managing monitoring and logging systems
• Maintaining a strong security posture
• Managing our CI/CD systems
• Managing incident response and on-call
• Automating all-the-things
• Helping manage our Google Workspace and other third-party SaaS systems

What you'll do:

• Develop and maintain automated pipelines for building, testing, and deploying code.
• Provision, manage, and scale infrastructure on platforms like GCP and CloudFlare.
• Third-party SaaS management
• Implement observability tools to monitor system health, performance, and set up alerts.
• Managing all incident responses. Troubleshoot, resolve, and conduct root cause analysis for production issues. Writing processes and documentation for incident response that will scale as we grow.
• Craft and manage a robust on-call system that will scale as the company grows
• Script and build tools to automate operational tasks
• Implement security best practices across infrastructure and applications.
• Create and maintain clear documentation for processes and systems.
• Work closely with development teams to optimize designs, ensure smooth releases and reliable applications.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in a similar role
• Experience with GCP
• Proficiency in Python, Bash, or Shell scripting.
• Experience with CI/CD tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions.
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• You champion Infrastructure as Code and have experience with Terraform and Ansible.
• Strong working knowledge of Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack.
• Strong understanding of OSes (Linux), networking, and distributed systems.

Nice to have

• Experience at an early-stage startup
• Background in security, developer tooling, open source and package management

Benefits

• Competitive base compensation
• Equity stake in the company
• Health, dental, vision and life insurance plans
• Retirement plans with employer matching
• Remote-first work environment
• Flexible PTO with a minimum suggested utilization of 3 weeks

Pay range

See our approximate salary ranges below that represent the anticipated low and high end of the salary for this position. Actual salaries will vary and are based on a multitude of non-discriminatory factors including final role leveling decisions, a candidate’s relevant work experiences/skills, and geographic location. Salary is one component of our total compensation package.

• US Range: $160,000 - $200,000 USD
• Canadian Range: $150,000 - $190,000 CAD

Candidate location

We are open to candidates who are authorized to work in Canada or the USA for this role. We do not offer Visa Sponsorship at this time. We have a strong preference for candidates who are in PST, and will consider candidates within +/-2 hours of PST who are strongly aligned to the role and our mission.

Equal opportunity

Minimal is an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.