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Site Reliability Engineer, Mid level

Toast

Toast

Software Engineering
Dublin, Ireland
Posted on Tuesday, May 23, 2023

Toast is driven by building the restaurant platform that helps restaurants adapt, take control, and get back to what they do best: building the businesses they love.

At Toast, our Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) are responsible for keeping all customer-facing services and other Toast production systems running smoothly. SREs are a blend of pragmatic operators and software craftspeople who apply sound software engineering principles, operational discipline, and mature automation to our environments and our codebase. Our decisions are based on instrumentation and continuous observability as well as through predictions and capacity planning.

About this roll* (Responsibilities)

  • Gather and analyze metrics from both operating systems and applications to assist in performance tuning and fault finding
  • Partner with development teams to improve services through rigorous testing and release procedures
  • Participate in system design consulting, platform management, and capacity planning
  • Create sustainable systems and services through automation and uplifts
  • Balance feature development speed and reliability with well-defined service level objectives

Troubleshooting and Supporting Escalations:

  • Gather and analyze metrics from both operating systems and applications to assist in performance tuning and fault finding
  • Diagnose performance bottlenecks and implement optimizations across infrastructure, database, web, and mobile applications
  • Implement strategies to increase system reliability and performance through on-call rotation and process optimization
  • Perform and run blameless RCAs on incidents and outages aggressively looking for answers that will prevent the incident from ever happening again
  • Apply ITIL V4 processes such as incident, problem and change

Do you have the right ingredients*? (Requirements)

  • Polyglot technologist/generalist with a thirst for learning
  • Deep understanding of cloud and microservice architecture, and the JVM
  • Experience with tools such as APM, Terraform, Ansible, GitHub, Jenkins, Docker
  • Experience developing software or software projects ideally utilising Java

Our Spread* of Total Rewards

We strive to provide competitive compensation and benefits programs that help to attract, retain, and motivate the best and brightest people in our industry. Our total rewards package goes beyond great earnings potential and provides the means to a healthy lifestyle with the flexibility to meet Toasters’ changing needs. Learn more about our benefits at https://careers.toasttab.com/toast-benefits.

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*Bread puns encouraged but not required

Our Spread* of Total Rewards

We strive to provide competitive compensation and benefits programs that help to attract, retain, and motivate the best and brightest people in our industry. Our total rewards package goes beyond great earnings potential and provides the means to a healthy lifestyle with the flexibility to meet Toasters’ changing needs. Learn more about our benefits at https://careers.toasttab.com/toast-benefits.

*Bread puns encouraged but not required

We are Toasters

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is Baked into our Recipe for Success.

At Toast our employees are our secret ingredient. When they are powered to succeed, Toast succeeds.

The restaurant industry is one of the most diverse industries. We embrace and are excited by this diversity, believing that only through authenticity, inclusivity, high standards of respect and trust, and leading with humility will we be able to achieve our goals.

Baking inclusive principles into our company and diversity into our design provides equitable opportunities for all and enhances our ability to be first in class in all aspects of our industry.

Bready* to make a change? Apply today!