Senior Site Reliability Engineer I

Job description / Role

About the team

The team focuses on enabling persistence storage technologies and taking cloud-native technology to the next level within Careem to help shape the future of the Careem platform and to help us scale our already sizable effort greatly.

What you'll do

• As an engineer in Careem, you'll build and maintain Kafka clusters and its corresponding ecosystem required to ensure resilience, reliability, and scalability of our services and speed up deployments with the aim of improving our products used by millions of customers every day.
• Make an impact from the design phase, through the development and operation of the storage cluster and its ecosystem on AWS.
• Build support, tooling, and create technical processes that simplify and enable engineers across multiple services.
• Identify, automate, and scale systems without compromising on security and reliability.
• Participate in on-call rotations and help improve incident response.

What you'll need

• 5+ years of related experience.
• Expertise and experience in developing, operating, and troubleshooting storage clusters and/or other highly available systems at scale.
• Experience running Kafka on Kubernetes.
• Good experience with one or more programming languages: Go, Python, Java, Groovy, Scala, Ruby.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred).
• Experience with infrastructure automation (Infrastructure as Code).
• Strong Unix or Linux background, including topics around network stack and scripting.
• Incident response and/or incident management experience is a plus.
• Experience in other automation topics such as monitoring, CI/CD, and security is a plus.

About the Company

We are a brand that aims to simplify people's lives by revolutionizing the transportation industry. A brand that strives to inspire everyone it interacts with, and supports every single person who dares to believe. #BeCareem

Careem is the MENA region's leading ride-hailing service and newest Tech Unicorn. With 30% monthly growth, we now operate in 50+ cities across 11 countries and host over 6 million users. With our recent Series D funding success, we are positioned on the cusp of significant scale and well on target to deliver our goal of creating one million jobs in the region by 2018.