Float is the world’s leading software for teams to plan their time. Launched in 2012, we’ve grown every year since, and remain proudly independent, self-funded and profitable. As a certified B Corporation, we’re committed to making a positive contribution to our team, customers, the environment, and the remote community. We’re a team of 50 working 100% remotely who believe in living our Best Work Life. You’ll partner with team members , including Australia, Mexico, Italy, Nigeria, Canada, and the USA.
Why We’re Hiring For This Role
The role of Site Reliability Engineers at Float is to increase the autonomy of the product and engineering teams by growing their capabilities to focus on solving problems. SRE makes sure our engineers get scalable infrastructure to build software on top of, making sure pipelines from idea to customer run smoothly and are easily built upon, and we also deal with broad areas of security around our network and defining internal security policy and practices.
Our goals for the Engineering team are to increase the pace with which they deliver improvements for our customers, provide an increasingly sophisticated and reliable service from our teams, and mitigate external threats as we grow.
You will help us tackle those problems by increasing reliability of our services to support larger clients joining Float, and increasing the robust security systems we’ve implemented to continue protecting our growing customer base.
We want you to love your work and believe that these skills will allow you to succeed in the role.
Applying these skills requires:
- An senior-level understanding of how SRE operates as an enabling team
- A very good understanding of Service Level Objectives
- Extensive knowledge of Kafka administration
- Working experience with Terraform, Bash, and a go-to language which ideally would be one of PHP, NodeJS, Python Experience with Kubernetes and GCP would be highly valued
As a fully remote team, we’re looking for someone comfortable with asynchronous communication as the default, which means you have previous remote experience and are comfortable using tools like Slack, Loom, and Linear to communicate as needed. Don’t worry—you will have significant deep work time since we have .
Why Join Us
Pay for this role is US $167,471 (Level 3).
Deadline – Not specified