Senior Site Reliability Data Engineer - Remote Opportunity

About the Role

We are seeking a Senior Site Reliability Data Engineer to join our dynamic team at Workable, where you will play a pivotal role in ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of our data and cloud infrastructure. This Senior Site Reliability Data Engineer remote position offers you the chance to make a significant impact on our data platform's operational excellence and growth.

What You'll Do

• Design, build, and maintain core data engineering infrastructure, including ETL/ELT pipelines, Apache Spark workloads, and data warehouse systems.
• Ensure availability, scalability, and performance of data infrastructure and pipelines with deep operational ownership.
• Implement and maintain scalable reliability tooling and automation to streamline deployment, monitoring, and incident response across distributed services.
• Operate and optimize Kubernetes-based cloud infrastructure to ensure high availability, performance, and cost-efficiency.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with developers and analysts to design, release, and troubleshoot production systems; provide data engineering expertise.
• Lead cross-functional projects with development teams to improve system reliability, automate capacity planning, and enforce SRE best practices.
• Develop and maintain centralized observability, including logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting pipelines; continuously improve incident detection and response workflows.
• Own observability for data pipelines (freshness, completeness, latency, error rates) and ensure SLOs are met.

Requirements

• BS or MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent proven background.
• 5+ years of relevant professional experience, including programming.
• Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills for large-scale distributed data systems.
• Hands-on experience with Apache Spark or similar distributed data processing frameworks.
• Experience designing and operating ETL/ELT pipelines at scale using tools such as Airflow or dbt.
• Experience with cloud data warehouses (BigQuery, Redshift, or Snowflake).
• Experience with a major cloud provider (GCP or AWS).
• Experience with infrastructure automation tools (Terraform or Ansible).
• Excellent written communication skills in English.

Nice to Have

• Production experience with Kubernetes.
• Experience with streaming systems (Kafka, Flink, Spark Streaming).
• Familiarity with relational and NoSQL databases.

What We Offer

• Comprehensive health coverage, including dependents.
• Flexible work model with a hybrid setup.
• Access to top-tier tools and Apple gear.
• Mobile data plan for connectivity.
• Relocation bonus to help you settle in Athens.