About the job
About the Role
Hopper is seeking a skilled Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join our innovative Cloud FinOps team. Our team manages extensive infrastructure within Google Cloud that supports hundreds of engineers, delivering exceptional experiences to millions of users globally.
Do you have a passion for automation and a commitment to optimizing systems? We want someone who strives to ensure our infrastructure is scalable, reliable, secure, and efficient.
You will tackle practical challenges, creating straightforward and dependable solutions that are cost-effective and user-friendly.
Daily Responsibilities
Lead projects aimed at enhancing cost efficiencies, such as:
Minimizing network egress costs by eliminating unnecessary headers.
Optimizing warehouse data utilization and selecting the most suitable storage solutions, like cold storage for seldom-accessed buckets.
Ensuring efficient autoscaling for databases and computational resources.
Enhance cost attribution methods to provide transparent visibility of expenses across all teams.
Participate in incident support and be a part of the on-call rotation for platform incidents, collaborating with teams across North America and Europe (ensuring you'll get your rest!). You will address challenges engineers face with our infrastructure and review pull requests that require platform oversight.
Join a compact, high-performing team of Site Reliability Engineers.
Qualifications
Extensive experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, Software Engineering, or Systems Engineering.
Strong troubleshooting abilities.
Proficient in system design with robust analytical skills.
Excellent communication skills.
Familiarity with major cloud providers, particularly Google Cloud.
Proficient in SQL.
Experience with containers, Kubernetes, and tools like Kustomize and Helm.
Knowledge of Service Mesh, preferably Istio.
Understanding of networking principles, including DNS, TLS, certificates, and ingress management.

