Site Reliability Engineer, Big Data (Remote, International)

PulsePoint processes billions of events daily through Kafka, Hadoop HDFS and Ceph. Our Data Platform team maintains these systems across hybrid infrastructure: bare-metal on-prem, cloud, and the integration between them. You own the lifecycle from architecture through deployment to capacity planning and incident response.

Kafka architecture, topic design, governance, partition strategy, throughput and latency optimization.

Ceph operations, pool design, placement optimization, capacity planning.

Operational automation, reduce manual work, faster incident response, preventive systems.

SQL Server backup and recovery pipelines, basic cluster support.

Data team tooling with self-service capabilities and observability.

Apache Kafka for messaging layer

Hadoop and Ceph as distributed storage layer

SQL Server backup and recovery

Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, ArgoCD for operational automation

Prometheus, Grafana, Icinga and PagerDuty as observability layer

Bare-metal servers and hybrid cloud/on-prem infrastructure

What matters: understand distributed systems, failure recovery, and operational patterns at scale. Apache Kafka and Ceph expertise is most valuable.

You've operated data infrastructure at petabyte scale or billions of events/day. You understand replication failures, consistency tradeoffs, and cost-optimization of large systems. You automate before troubleshooting. You take ownership across system layers, not just one component. You simplify complex systems.