Software Engineer 2 (SRE & Chaos engineering)

Job Description

The salary range for this position is PLN 14 200 - 19 690 (contract of employment)

A hybrid work model that incorporates solutions developed by the leader and the team

Allegro’s development teams boast more than 1700 IT experts with various areas of specialisation, who work together to develop our service. Due to the unique scale and complexity of the problems that we solve each day, we have the opportunity to develop by taking up a wide variety of projects. As a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) at Allegro, you’ll be at the heart of ensuring the stability, reliability, and performance of our cutting-edge platforms.

Your mission? To maintain our high SLAs:

• Swiftly respond to outages
• Coordinate critical incidents
• Restore operational status with lightning speed

 But that's just the beginning: 

• Experience the thrill of chaos engineering on an unprecedented scale by shutting down entire data centers to rigorously test our platform's resilience against critical failures. 
• Prepare and execute chaos tests and performance tests
• Simulate automated purchases of thousands of offers in mere seconds

We are looking for people who:

• Code in Kotlin and/or Java/Scala
• Familiar with monitoring tools and skilled in using Gatling for performance testing (nice to have).
• Skilled in coordinating teamwork and communication in case of failures, ensuring swift recovery and operational continuity.
• Expect work that has a deeper meaning (not only tasks "management has commissioned") and want to enjoy its results
• You have a passion for chaos engineering and thrive on ensuring platform stability through rigorous testing and proactive measures.
• You’re excited by the prospect of working on large-scale, complex systems
• Want to constantly develop and update their knowledge
• Willing to take on-call duty for key functionalities during SEV 1 incidents.
• Know English at B2 level

What we offer:

• A hybrid work model that you will agree on with your leader and the team. We have well-located offices (with fully equipped kitchens and bicycle parking facilities) and excellent working tools (height-adjustable desks, interactive conference rooms)
• Annual bonus up to 10% of the annual salary gross (depending on your annual assessment and the company's results)
• A wide selection of fringe benefits in a cafeteria plan – you choose what you like (e.g. medical, sports or lunch packages, insurance, purchase vouchers)
• English classes that we pay for related to the specific nature of your job
• 16" or 14" MacBook Pro with M1 processor and, 32GB RAM or a corresponding Dell with Windows (if you don’t like Macs) and other gadgets that you may need
• Working in a team you can always count on — we have on board top-class specialists and experts in their areas of expertise
• A high degree of autonomy in terms of organizing your team’s work; we encourage you to develop continuously and try out new things
• Hackathons, team tourism, training budget and an internal educational platform, MindUp (including training courses on work organization, means of communications, motivation to work and various technologies and subject-matter issues)
• If you want to learn more, check it out

Why is it worth working with us:

• We use, among others, Java 17, Kotlin, Coroutines, Scala, Spring, Reactive Programming, Spark, Dataproc, Microservices architecture supporting high request rates on our business data bus. Utilizing extensive Big Data resources on GCP and incorporating Machine Learning into our operational workflows.
• The IT team is made up of over 1700 members who have shared their knowledge at multiple conferences, such as DevDays or Devoxx, and co-create a blog: allegro.tech
• Microservices – a few thousand microservices and 1.8m+ rps on our business data bus
• Big Data – several petabytes of data and Machine Learning used in production
• We practice Code Review, Continuous Integration, Scrum/Kanban, Domain Driven Design, Test Driven Development, Pair Programming, depending on the team
• Our internal ecosystem is based on self-service and widely used tools, such as Kubernetes, Docker, Consul, GitHub or GitHub Actions. This will allow you, from day one, to develop software using any language, architecture and scale, restricted only by your creativity and imagination. 
• To match the scale, we also focus on building entire Platforms of tools and technologies that accelerate and facilitate day-to-day development, and we ensure the best Developer Experience to our teams
• Technological autonomy: you get to choose which technology solves the problem at hand (no need for management’s consent). You are responsible for what you create
• Our deployment environment combines private Data Centers (tens of thousands of servers) and Public Clouds (Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure)
• Over 100 original open source projects and a few thousand stars on github
• We organize Allegro Tech Live event, a 100% remote version of our offline Allegro Tech Talks meetups, and we make guest appearances at the invitation of such communities as Warsaw AI, JUG (Poznań, Łódź, Lublin, Wrocław), WG .Net, Dare IT, Women in Tech Summit
• We focus on development as well. We organize hackathons and internal conferences (e.g. the annual Allegro Tech Meeting), our employees regularly participate in events both in Poland and abroad (Europe and USA), and each team has its own budget for training and study aids. If you want to keep growing and share your knowledge, we will always support you

This may also be of interest to you: 

Allegro Tech Podcast → https://podcast.allegro.tech/

Booklet → https://jobs.allegro.eu/pl/obszary-prac/tech-data/

Send in your CV and see why it is #goodtobehere!