Overview

Strike is the Bitcoin company. With Strike, you can buy and sell bitcoin, pay bills, and borrow against your holdings. From individuals to businesses, Strike is purpose-built for every step of the Bitcoin journey. Available in more than 100 countries — including the U.S., Europe, Latin America, and Africa — Strike is building a better financial system powered by Bitcoin. Bitcoin is better money. Strike is how you use it.

Role:

We are seeking a highly experienced Site Reliability Engineer located in Europe, with a strong track record of tackling complex reliability and scalability challenges, and a history of providing technical guidance to teams. If you’re a seasoned problem-solver with a passion for automation and operational excellence, and enjoy elevating the skills of those around you, we want to hear from you.

What You’ll Do:

  • Lead Technical Initiatives: Drive key technical initiatives focused on improving the reliability, performance, and scalability of our critical systems, often leading technical aspects within projects.
  • Architect and Implement Advanced Solutions: Design and implement sophisticated resilient and scalable solutions, leveraging your deep understanding of distributed systems.
  • Master Troubleshooting and Optimization: Lead complex troubleshooting efforts, identify deep-seated root causes, and implement advanced optimizations.
  • Build and Evangelize Automation: Develop and champion the adoption of robust automation frameworks and tools, potentially guiding more junior engineers in their development.
  • Elevate Observability Practices: Design and implement comprehensive and insightful monitoring and logging solutions, ensuring actionable insights are available across teams.
  • Provide Leadership in Incident Management: Take a leadership role in incident response, providing critical technical direction and mentorship during high-pressure situations.
  • Champion Post-Mortem Excellence: Lead and contribute to in-depth blameless post-mortem analyses, driving significant improvements based on learnings.
  • Mentor and Guide Team Members: Share your extensive knowledge and experience to mentor and guide other SREs and engineers, fostering their technical growth.

What We’re Looking For:

  • Extensive experience with minimum 5 years in SRE, platform engineering, or software development with a strong operational focus.
  • Demonstrated experience in providing technical leadership, guidance, or mentorship to engineering teams.
  • Expert-level practical knowledge of cloud platforms, especially GCP.
  • Deep hands-on experience with container orchestration (Kubernetes) and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Helm, ArgoCD).
  • Strong command of multiple scripting and programming languages (Python, Go, Bash).
  • Proven expertise in building and leveraging advanced monitoring and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack).
  • Exceptional analytical, problem-solving, and debugging skills at a senior level.
  • Excellent communication, collaboration, and influencing skills.
  • Organizational and leadership skills are a big plus

Compensation and Benefits:

  • Location dependent

We do not make hiring decisions based on educational history whatsoever. Our Founder is a college dropout. We work with high school dropouts, PHD candidates and everything in-between. We do not hire credentials. We simply partner with talented, passionate individuals who are excited to be a part of our team.