Reliability Engineer

Join our small, fiery team on our mission to usher in the Bitcoin golden age.

About Shakepay

Shakepay is on a mission to usher in a Bitcoin golden age, where Canadians have access to Bitcoin-friendly, secure, and rewarding financial services. When Shakepay launched in 2015, it quickly became one of Canada’s fastest-growing financial institutions. Backed by top venture capitalists having raised $44M+ and trusted by over one million Canadians and counting, Shakepay is reimagining banking for the digital age. People who choose careers at Shakepay are helping shape a future of financial inclusion, opportunity, and prosperity for all Canadians.

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

About the team

Here are our four-member team’s mission and responsibilities:

• 🌐 Site Reliability: Our mission is to scale our highly available infra reliably.
• 🔧 Empowerment: We provide others with tools to streamline development and operations.
• 🤖 Automation: We code about anything infra to minimize the effort it takes to maintain it.
• 👀 Visibility: We believe in transparency, building visibility into every aspect of our infrastructure.

Join us as a SRE and play a pivotal role in shaping the future of Shakepay’s platform.

You will

• Mentor engineers through code reviews and team discussions
• Implement Infrastructure as code best practices
• Evangelize and lead infrastructure automation culture with GitOps best practices
• Create monitoring, alerting and dashboarding solutions
• Build/deploy/maintain security controls, instrumentation, and detection infrastructure
• Foster innovation while maintaining a high bar for quality, scale, and performance
• Assist DevOps engineers through Pull Request reviews and collaborative design sessions
• Have an influence across the entire engineering team, with correspondingly large impact to customers
• Participate in the on-call rotation and help keeping it sustainable

Must have

• 5+ years experience as a SRE/Cloud engineer/DevOps role
• Extensive knowledge of engineering processes, structural design, and system optimization
• Be proficient with shell and programming languages used in a SRE context (bash, cron, python, javascript, golang, curl, grep, etc…)
• Experience with GitOps and infrastructure as code (IaC)
• Experience with infrastructure security and networking
• Experience with incident management
• Experience working with a highly collaborative team
• Driven by business impact

Nice to have

• Experience with technologies like Kubernetes, Kafka, DataDog, AWS cloud/SRE suite (Aurora, EKS, VPC, Lambdas, CloudFormation, etc.), postgres, Terraform, ArgoCD, Helm, Node.js
• Experience building fintech infrastructure
• Some bitcoin knowledge, and the urge to learn more
• A folder of SafeForWork reaction memes

Why join?

• Competitive Salary - Base salary for this role will be $145,000 to $180,000 with additional equity options & benefits to make up the total compensation package.
• Be part of a groundbreaking journey: you'll live on the frontier of financial innovation. Bitcoin is rewriting the rules, and Shakepay is at the forefront.
• Impact and scale: with only 2% of Canadians on Shakepay, the potential for growth is massive. You can help us bring Shakepay and bitcoin to all Canadians.
• Rewarding benefits: we offer competitive compensation (every shaker owns stock options), benefits (health, dental, paramedical, disability, etc), and generous vacation time.
• Embrace continuous learning: ambitious individuals with an insatiable thirst for knowledge will feel at home. Working at Shakepay means you'll be working in an environment that encourages constant growth and development.
• Get paid in bitcoin: choose to take a percentage of your salary in the hardest, soundest money the world has ever known.
• Work remote: work from anywhere in Canada. If you're in Montreal or Toronto, you can also work from our offices.