Portugal onlyKevel is a growing cloud-based technology company leading a bold mission to help make the Internet a better place through ethical advertising practices and building customizable, ad serving solutions quickly and easily. At Kevel, we put people first. Our team members are passionate and self-motivated individuals that help each other do remarkable things every day.
JOB OVERVIEW:Site Reliability Engineers at Kevel play a crucial role in keeping Kevel running by defining, measuring, and improving reliability. Our SREs help teams deliver secure, reliable services as often as possible without compromising on quality and developer experience. As our team continues to scale globally, we are looking for talented and driven Site Reliability Engineers with a strong background in software engineering to solve operations problems with software. Come join a team that values continuous improvement above all else.
PAY TRANSPARENCY:Kevel uses external, third-party market data to determine compensation for all open positions. Our compensation philosophy is based on the candidate’s specific working location AND experience level. This means that we will take a no negotiation approach in our recruitment and offer processes. We believe this is an important step in living our value of embracing diversity while underlining our commitment to fair, equitable and inclusive pay practices.
An exact offer for this position will be determined based on the candidate's working location and experience level, in relation to our existing team, and will be between €60,000 - €75,000 annually. This position is not eligible for a bonus.
All compensation packages include the additional benefits as described in the 'Why you'll love working with us' section below. We also have a transparent ‘Total Rewards Philosophy’ we’d be happy to share with you which describes our overall approach to compensation and benefits in full detail! Our recruitment team can share more about this with you in an initial phone interview and will be happy to answer any questions you have related to compensation at Kevel!
LOCATION:Remote - Portugal. This position can be based out of our Porto office, remote, or hybrid. Applicants located anywhere within Portugal are encouraged to apply. Applicants must be legally eligible to work within Portugal.
WHAT YOU’LL ACCOMPLISH:
- Work with engineering teams to define reliability targets for their services, solve security and reliability issues, and improve observability
- Embed in engineering teams to solve acute operational issues
- Evaluate services for production readiness
- Automate away time-consuming manual tasks
- Operate production infrastructure
- Lead incident responses and ensure incidents are fully resolved
- Lead by example to improve Kevel’s SRE practices
- Administer shared vendored products and provide internal support
- Take part in on-call rotations to deliver out-of-hours support for systems owned by the Quality Engineering team
SKILLS YOU’LL BRING WITH YOU:
- Strong software engineering experience
- Experience operating production systems
- AWS, GCP or equivalent cloud platform experience
- Datadog (or similar logging/monitoring platform)
- Infrastructure as Code
- CI/CD pipelines
- Strong written English
We highly encourage people of all backgrounds and perspectives to apply, even if your experiences don’t meet every requirement in the job description. We especially encourage members of traditionally underrepresented communities to apply, including women, people of color, LGBTQ+ people, veterans, and people with disabilities.
WHY YOU’LL LOVE WORKING WITH US:
- Fully Remote Team: We are a 100% remote work environment with employees located around the world. You are welcome to work from home, one of our offices, a WeWork office, or an equivalent co-working space.
- Flexible Working Hours: We understand our employees have their own lives, responsibilities and working preferences. We trust our employees to communicate with their managers, and work when they work best.
- Flexible Benefits: Flexible benefit offerings provided through Coverflex, including 100% employer paid health insurance for you and your family.
- Savings for the Future: Retirement savings opportunities are available through Coverflex.
- Rest and Relaxation: Unlimited personal time off - and we mean it! We trust our employees to take the time they need, whenever they need it. We also offer Paid Holidays + a Kevel Holiday Break (from 12/24 - 1/1 every year!)
- Home Office Stipend: You’ll receive a company provided Mac machine + a $500 USD (or equivalent in local currency) home office allowance to purchase what you need to set up your work space properly!
- Parental Leave Support: We support both primary and secondary caregivers when our employees are growing their families.
- Free press benefits: Kevel believes all employees should have access to legitimate news sources. You’ll receive a $300 USD (or equivalent in local currency) annual allowance to subscribe to the news source of your choice.
- You’ll work with an award winning team! We’ve won numerous Best Places to Work Awards for several years and counting! We’ve also won many awards for our Innovation, Business Intelligence, and our best-in-class products (Software of the Year, Cloud Company of the Year, Best Ad Tech and API Innovator).
- Full transparency. We embrace transparency and encourage you to read more about what we value through our Company Constitution and Employee Bill of Rights, ourAbout Kevel page, and Careers Page.
Hiring Guidelines by Country: Kevel hires new team members in countries around the world. Some roles may carry specific location-based eligibility requirements. Our Recruitment Team will share the specific benefits that are available in your location, and can help answer any questions about location specific eligibility requirements and benefits after the recruitment process begins.
ABOUT KEVEL
Kevel (previously Adzerk) offers the infrastructure APIs needed to quickly build custom ad platforms for sponsored listings, internal promotions, native ads, and more. We are committed to helping publishers drive new revenue and take back the Internet from ad tech giants like Google, Amazon, and Facebook.
Kevel was founded in 2010 in Durham, North Carolina. We embrace remote working culture with our entire team being spread across the United States, United Kingdom, Portugal and Singapore! Kevel is proud to be an inclusive workplace with one goal in common — we want to make the internet a better place.
ALL APPLICANTS ARE WELCOME, EXACTLY AS YOU ARE
We’re building a global community - one that’s safe for people of all backgrounds and walks of life. Our policies and way of working are guided by our core values of inclusivity, trust, empathy, and respect. We know we have more work to do, but firmly believe that our work is at its best when everyone feels free to be their most authentic selves.
Kevel is an equal opportunity employer, and we’re proud of our ongoing efforts and commitment to creating a diverse, inclusive, and transparent workplace where everyone feels respected, heard, safe and accepted. At Kevel, we embrace our differences and consider diversity a superpower that drives the success of our organization.
We highly encourage people of all backgrounds and perspectives to apply, even if your experiences don’t meet every requirement in the job description. We especially encourage members of traditionally underrepresented communities to apply, including women, people of color, LGBTQ+ people, veterans, and people with disabilities.
Individuals seeking employment at Kevel are considered without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, medical condition, ancestry, disability, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
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