Rust Job: Site Reliability Engineer

About Unbabel
Unbabel eliminates language barriers so that businesses can thrive across cultures and geographies.
The company’s language operations platform blends advanced artificial intelligence with human editors, for fast, efficient, high-quality translations that get smarter over time. Unbabel integrates seamlessly in any channel so that agents can deliver consistent multilingual support from within their existing workflows. Making it easy for enterprises to grow into new markets and build seamless customer experiences in every corner of the world.
Based in San Francisco, California, Unbabel works with leading customer support and marketing teams at brands such as Facebook, Microsoft, Booking.com, and Under Armour to communicate effortlessly with customers around the world, no matter what language they speak.

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What’s the opportunity about?*
The SRE is a team in the Engineering organisation that applies the well-known SRE mentality to Unbabel's "You Build It, You Run It" approach. Our mission is to use a software engineering mindset to deliver and maintain a set of services that form the backbone where the services are built and run by the rest of the Engineering teams.

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Responsibilities: *

• Develop the platform that supports our business services, improving the systems that implement provisioning/automation, deployment, monitoring, and others;
• Collaborate with the other engineering teams to focus on improving the usability of those systems and advising on best practices for building scalable and reliable applications;
• Work with different open-source/third-party and cloud-native technologies;
• We are searching for someone who brings fresh ideas, demonstrates a unique and informed viewpoint, and enjoys collaborating with a cross-functional team to develop real-world solutions and positive user experiences at every interaction.

Requirements
Must have:

• Excellent English verbal and written communication skills;
• Engineering Degree or equivalent;
• Knowledge of SRE best practices;
• SRE experience developing, running and debugging multiple distributed systems at scale, in production;
• Ability to collaborate cross-functionally and effectively with diverse, fast-paced teams;
• Experience managing Kubernetes clusters and serverless environments;
• Solid knowledge of Linux, container internals, and computer networking;
• Experience working with monitoring/observability systems (e.g. Prometheus, Thanos, Grafana);
• Experience in shell scripting and strong software development skills with one of the following: Python, Go, Java, Rust, Ruby, C/C++, or any similar programming language;
• Experience with any major cloud provider, preferably AWS;
• User experience with technologies like Docker, Kubernetes, Nginx, or Apache.

Nice to have:

• Experience in supporting or mentoring other engineers;
• Experience in creating response plans against Infrastructure and disaster failovers;
• Experience with technologies like Terraform, ArgoCD, GitLab CI/CD, and Hashicorp Vault.

Benefits

• Competitive salary at one of Europe’s leading tech startups
• Stimulating startup environment committed to diversity and inclusion
• Individual budget to set up your workstation (mechanical keyboard, mouse, etc.)
• Stock options
• Health Insurance
• Role-related and professional skills training, to support you on your career journey
• Access to a mentor within the company, to oversee your development in the area or your choice.
• Free Calm App Subscription
• Yearly company retreat

What to expect from our Interview process?

• Interview with Recruiter

• Two Technical Interviews
• Final Interview with our CTO

Ideally, we like our process to take no more than three weeks.

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Diversity Statement_
Unbabel is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate based on ethnicity, religion, colour, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, or mental disability. Not only do we not discriminate, but we celebrate differences. If for whatever reason you need us to make reasonable adjustments and adaptations to our recruitment process, please let your recruiter know.
(We are not accepting candidates coming from recruitment agencies at this moment)

Job Type: Full-time