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Our client is a cloud technology startup launched in January 2016, developing Database-as-a-Service. They run and manage Open Source database and backend messaging systems for the business customers around the world. They take the pain away from running databases and allow the customers to focus on building their own products without worrying about database management. Currently, they offer Apache Kafka, Apache Cassandra, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Elasticsearch, Redis, InfluxDB, and Grafana in more than 80 regions around the world on AWS, GCP, Microsoft Azure, DigitalOcean, Packet, and UpCloud cloud platforms. The company has offices in Helsinki, Finland, and Boston, MA.

Right now they are looking for a Site Reliability Engineer/ Backend Developer to join their team in Helsinki. You need to be a solid software developer who has experience developing non-trivial Linux backend applications, about 70% of the work is software development.

Besides an opportunity to join an ambitious and fast-growing company, the company offers stock options, private healthcare (+dental care), and sports and culture vouchers.

Key responsibilities:

• Deployment and upgrades
  

• Management tooling (avn-admin etc.)
  

• Monitoring and alerting
  

• Technical customer service issues / support tickets
  

• 2nd level customer support
  

• Escalations and on-call 24/7/365
  

• Capacity planning
  

• Critical bug fixes and vulnerabilities
  

• Processes and tooling for all of the above
  

Must-have skills:

• Python systems programming;
  

• Linux: Linux as a development environment, sysadmin work, know how to configure various open source software packages, general competence at the command-line;
  

• PostgreSQL;
  

• Information security;
  

• Automation (CI, testing, deployment, configuration management);
  

• Metrics, monitoring and alerting systems;
  

• Cloud services (AWS, GCP, Azure).
  

Interested? Apply here [email protected]