Site Reliability Engineer

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Bolt engineering teams are working on unique product challenges – complex algorithms for demand prediction, optimal real-time pricing, routing, fraud detection, distributed systems, and much more. Volumes are constantly growing.

Our SRE teams are dealing with a range of different challenges, from managing our services that keep Bolt backend services running to optimizing our cloud infrastructure.

The SRE Platform team is responsible for ensuring the reliability, availability, and scalability of Bolt's backend services.

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<title>About us</title>

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With over 200 million customers in 50+ countries, Bolt is one of the fastest-growing tech companies in Europe and Africa. And it's all thanks to our people.

We believe in creating an inclusive environment where everyone is welcome, regardless of race, colour, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, or disability.

Our ultimate goal is to make cities for people, not cars, and we need your help to achieve this mission!

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Our Site Reliability Engineers in the Platform team are working towards making sure we build up an ever more resilient and scalable platform for engineering teams to build on top of.

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• <point>Developing automation and implementing internal systems.</point>
• <point>Participating in architectural discussions to select the best long-term solution and collaborating with other SRE Engineers and Software Engineers.</point>
• <point>Implementation of new systems and tuning of existing ones to enable better reliability, availability, scalability, or reduce costs.</point>
• <point>Troubleshooting production system issues.</point>
• <point>Making sure all main services are measured, monitored, and covered by alerting systems.</point>
• <point>Participating in on-call activities for the most critical parts of the infrastructure, helping to solve incidents in a no-blaming culture.</point>

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• <point>You have in-depth knowledge of Linux troubleshooting, including networking, filesystems, security, and the kernel.</point>
• <point>You have a solid understanding of large-scale distributed systems.</point>
• <point>You are experienced with AWS services, such as EC2 and EKS.</point>
• <point>You have experience with infrastructure automation tools, such as Terraform and Ansible.</point>
• <point>You are a team player, with good communication skills, that works well with others in the group and the rest of the organization.</point>

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Experience is great, but we really look for drive, intelligence, and integrity. So even if you don’t tick every box, please consider applying if you feel you’re the kind of person described above!
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<title>Why you’ll love it here:</title>

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• <point>Accelerate your professional growth with unique career opportunities.</point>
• <point>Enjoy a rewarding salary and stock options, knowing that as Bolt succeeds, so do you.</point>
• <point>Take care of your physical and mental health with our wellness perks.</point>
• <point>Celebrate 5 years at Bolt with a 1-month paid sabbatical to recharge.</point>
• <point>Connect with colleagues at annual company events and smaller team gatherings.</point>
• <point>Balance flexibility and in-person collaboration with our hybrid model, including at least 12 monthly in-office days.</point>

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<text>*Some perks may differ depending on your location and role.</text>
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