Senior Software Engineer, SRE / Observability Tooling

Glia Engineering is remote-first, spanning Canada, Portugal, Poland, and Estonia. The Observability team is based in Estonia, with optional offices in Tallinn and Tartu. We thrive on flexible remote collaboration, but we still bring the whole team together in Estonia twice a year for in-person innovation and connection.

Infrastructure: AWS, Kubernetes (AWS EKS), Istio, EFK

Persistence: Amazon Aurora Serverless for Postgres, RabbitMQ, Amazon RDS

Cache: Amazon ElastiCache

Monitoring & Observability: DataDog with a focus on dashboards and alerts for system health

CI/CD: Github Actions, ArgoCD, Jenkins, Helm, with a focus on automation and pipeline optimization.

Infrastructure as Code: Terraform

Additionally, our Engineering teams use: Backend: Python, Elixir, Node.js , Ruby, Go Frontend: Javascript and React.js Native mobile SDKs: Java and Swift

Backend: Python, Elixir, Node.js , Ruby, Go

Frontend: Javascript and React.js

Native mobile SDKs: Java and Swift

Expert-level proficiency with AWS and Kubernetes (EKS), particularly in areas of observability, networking, and auto-scaling.

Experience with modern observability platforms (e.g., DataDog, Prometheus) and a deep understanding of metrics, logging, and tracing.

Deep, practical understanding of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles (SLOs, error budgets, toil reduction).

Demonstrable experience analyzing and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.

Strong software development skills in a language like Python or Go, used to build operational tools, services, or automation.

Expertise in designing and operating robust CI/CD pipelines for a microservices architecture (e.g., using ArgoCD, Github Actions, Helm).

A systematic, data-driven approach to problem-solving and root cause analysis.

Proficiency in using AI tools thoughtfully, maintaining ownership of the final output while recognizing the tools' limitations.

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