Sr Site Reliability Engineer
Summary
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Instructure (maker of the Canvas learning platform) in Budapest, keeping a 24/7 SaaS learning product running reliably at scale. Day-to-day work centers on AWS, Docker/Kubernetes (EKS), Terraform infrastructure-as-code, and Go/Python automation with CI/CD tooling.
At Instructure, we believe in the power of people to grow and succeed throughout their lives. Our goal is to amplify that power by creating intuitive products that simplify learning and personal development, facilitate meaningful relationships, and inspire people to go further in their education and careers.
We do this by giving smart, creative, passionate people opportunities to create awesome.
By focusing on our values — ownership, openness, simplicity, equality, relationships, and learning — and using a modern stack that includes AWS, Docker, Kubernetes (EKS), Terraform, and Go; we are pushing the boundaries of managing services at scale.
- A desire for ownership and love for problem-solving and learning.
- Experience managing a 24/7 SaaS with amazing uptime.
- Experience with at least one cloud platform (Amazon Web Services [preferred], Google Cloud, or Microsoft Azure).
- Programming experience in at least one modern programming language (Python, Go, TypeScript / Node.js, Java, or Ruby).
- Experience with containers (Docker) or container orchestration (Kubernetes, ECS, Mesos).
- Deep understanding of configuration management, automation, and infrastructure-as-code tools (Ansible, Terraform, or Puppet).
- Continuous Integration (CI) / Continuous Delivery (CD) exposure (like Jenkins, git, Argo, Spinnaker, GitHub Actions, AWS CodeDeploy, etc.).
- Open, team-oriented, and with a broad range of skills and interests.
- Strong communication skills in English.