Senior Site Reliability Engineer I - Remote

Overview

Careem is building the Everything App for the greater Middle East, making it easier than ever to move around, order food and groceries, manage payments, and more. Careem is led by a powerful purpose to simplify and improve the lives of people and build an awesome organisation that inspires. Since 2012, Careem has created earnings for over 2.5 million Captains, simplified the lives of over 70 million customers, and built a platform for the region’s best talent to thrive and for entrepreneurs to scale their businesses. Careem operates in over 70 cities across 10 countries, from Morocco to Pakistan.

In Short

• Development of our distributed monitoring system to meet the challenging functional, scalability and reliability requirements for our fast-growing business
• Design/Architect solutions with a focus on scalability, testability, and maintainability
• Coach, and mentor colleagues on an energetic, growing team.
• Facilitate collaboration with other engineers, product owners, and designers to solve interesting and challenging problems across our platform
• Build and ship new features and systems, with an emphasis on code quality, maintainability, readability, and testing
• Develop, maintain, and extend a variety of systems, including open-source, ready-made, and in-house applications.
• Focus on quality and know what it means to ship high quality code.

Requirements

• Minimum 5 years of experience with monitoring systems like Prometheus, NewRelic, AppDynamic etc
• Experience in developing and debugging in one of these OOP languages, Java, Python, Bash, Go.
• Expert knowledge on Kubernetes
• Experience with Cloud Infrastructure (AWS preferred)
• Experience with infrastructure automation (Infrastructure as Code)
• Experience in architecture/design, developing, operating and troubleshooting highly available systems at scale
• Experience in building and owning tools for medium to large engineering teams.
• Experience of building systems, dashboards and metrics to facilitate a data-driven approach to problem resolution.
• Strong Unix or Linux background, including topics around network stack and scripting
• Obsession about keeping costs low while building solutions.

Benefits

• Work and learn from great minds by joining a community of inspiring colleagues.
• Put your passion to work in a purposeful organisation dedicated to creating impact in a region with a lot of untapped potential.
• Explore new opportunities to learn and grow every day.
• Work 4 days a week in office & 1 day from home, and remotely from any country in the world for 30 days a year with unlimited vacation days per year.
• Access to healthcare benefits and fitness reimbursements for health activities including gym, health club, and training classes.