Ebury is a hyper-growth FinTech firm, named in 2021 as one of the top 15 European Fintechs to work for by AltFi. We offer a range of products including FX risk management, trade finance, currency accounts, international payments and API integration.
Principle Platform Engineer - GCP
Ebury Madrid Office - Hybrid: 4 days in the office, 1 day working from home
Ebury is a Global FinTech: we apply new technologies to enhance and automate financial services and processes. This allows small and medium-sized businesses to trade and transact internationally by eliminating boundaries related to more traditional.
Are you ready to be an Eburian?
We are looking for an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to join our team. In this role, you will be working within one of our platform engineering teams to ensure that our platform meets the needs of our customers and business objectives.
What you will do:
- Work within a team of SREs to ensure high availability and reliability of our systems.
- Develop and maintain monitoring, incident management, and troubleshooting of infrastructure and applications.
- Utilize observability tools to gain insights into system performance and health, and make decisions for improvements.
- Design and implement automation tools and processes to improve efficiency and reduce downtime.
- Perform on-call on a rotating basis to address high-severity incidents and ensure system availability.
- Work closely with development teams to ensure that their applications are designed for scalability and reliability.
- Participate in the design and implementation of new systems and services to ensure they meet our reliability and scalability requirements.
- Keep up-to-date with emerging technologies, tools, and practices related to SRE and infrastructure.
What we expect from you:
- Several years of relevant industry experience building large scale distributed systems.
- Solid understanding of cloud architecture and application deployment patterns on GCP or AWS.
- Experience operating web-scale deployments of containerised systems on Kubernetes and Amazon Container Services.
- A deep understanding of programming languages and the systems you've worked on.
- A passion for architecting large systems with elegant interfaces that can scale easily
- A hunger for tracking down root causes, no matter where it takes you and fixing them in systematic ways. Working with code owners to prevent repeats.
- A love for writing code - we primarily use Python; you don’t need to be an expert, but experience is a plus and we will expect you to learn on the job.
- Excellent written and interpersonal communication skills and willingness to uphold Eburys values.
- Our operating language is English but a knowledge of Spanish or Portuguese is a bonus.
- Experience with security and compliance requirements (e.g., HIPAA, SOC 2, GDPR, DORA) is a plus.
Not feeling like you meet all the requirements? That’s OK! No one fits a job description perfectly, and there are no perfect candidates.
What we offer:
- Variety of meaningful and competitive benefits to meet your needs;
- Competitive salary.;
- You’ll have continuous professional growth thanks to our career progression framework with regular reviews;
- Equity process through a performance bonus;
- Allowance to take annually paid time off as well as during local public holidays;
- Continued personal development through training and certification;
- Being part of a diverse technology team that cares deeply about culture and best practices, and believes in agile principles;
- Contribute to our technical design through our open and collaborative Request For Comments (RFC) process;
- We are Open Source friendly, following Open Source principles in our internal projects and encouraging contributions to external projects;
Why should I join Ebury?
Want to work in a high-growth environment? We are always growing. Want to build a better world? We believe in inclusion. We stand against discrimination in all forms and have no tolerance for the intolerance of differences that makes us a modern and successful organisation.
At Ebury you will find an internal group dedicated to discussing how we can build a more diverse and inclusive workplace for all people in the Technology Team, so if you’re excited about this job opportunity but your background doesn’t match exactly the requirements in the job description, we strongly encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other positions we have.
Get ready to take your career to the next level:
If there’s something that you can do in our Tech team, it is growing professionally: thanks to our career path and our collaborative and cross-working teams, every day is a new adventure.
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About Us
Ebury is a FinTech success story, positioned among the fastest-growing international companies in its sector.
Founded in 2009, we are headquartered in London and have more than 1300 staff with a presence in more than 20 countries worldwide. Cultural diversity is part of what makes Ebury a special place to be. From Sao Paulo to Dubai, Bucharest to Toronto, we enjoy sharing team experiences and celebrating success across the Ebury family.
Hard work pays off: in 2019, Ebury received a £350 million investment from Banco Santander and has won internationally recognised awards including Financial Times: 1000 Europe's Fastest-Growing Companies.
None of this would have been possible without our proudest achievement: our great people. Enthusiastic, innovative and collaborative teams, always ready to disrupt and revolutionise the fast-paced FinTech sector.
We believe in inclusion. We stand against discrimination in all forms and have no tolerance for the intolerance of differences that makes us a modern and successful organisation. At Ebury, you can be whoever you want to be and still feel a sense of belonging no matter your story because we want you and your uniqueness to help write our future.
Please submit your application on the careers website directly, uploading your CV / resume in English.
