Site Reliability Engineer

Sweep is hiring a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), to join our SRE & infrastructure team and help us ensure the reliability, scalability, and performance of our systems.

This role is ideal for someone with solid DevOps background, expertise in AWS and high-traffic systems, and a commitment to fostering a collaborative, inclusive environment within our SRE guild and broader engineering culture.

Climate change is the defining issue of our time. By empowering companies with technology that helps them manage their climate impact, we believe Sweep can make a meaningful contribution to a better future for all of us.

Ok, sounds promising. What will I be doing?

As a key player in our Engineering team, you will collaborate with engineering teams to design and implement cutting-edge, automated infrastructure to support both our core platform and AI-driven solutions.

1. Contribute to the team's ownership of technical infrastructure 🛠️

• Design, implement, and maintain highly available, scalable, and secure cloud infrastructure for the Sweep Data platform and AI workloads using Infrastructure as Code practices.

• Improve and expand our observability strategy, working with Datadog to enhance metrics, dashboards, and alerting across our Rails application and AI workloads.

• Develop scalable infrastructure to support the machine learning model training, deployment, and monitoring.

• Participate in incident response and post-mortem reviews as part of the Oak team

2. Support critical scaling initiatives 📈

• Support critical infrastructure scaling projects.

• Contribute to high-traffic systems design.

• Help establish team processes including runbooks, workflows, and documentation.

3. Facilitate collaboration 🤝

• Work closely with engineers who have elevated infrastructure privileges within our DevOps culture.

• Collaborate within the SRE guild and contribute to best practices across the engineering team.

• Collaborate with AI/ML teams to optimize and scale AI/ML pipelines and workloads.

4. Manage day-to-day operations 🔧

• Manage day-to-day operations including on-call duties, capacity planning, and proactive system health monitoring.

• Implement security measures and data protection protocols.

• Support enterprise customer security requirements including BYOK implementation and data sovereignty compliance.

• Maintain and contribute to Sweep strong level of compliance including SOC 2 Type 2, ISO 27001 and more.

5. Continuously improve and learn 🚀

• Use a proactive approach to problem-solving and a commitment to building fault-tolerant systems.

• Stay up-to-date with the latest industry trends and technologies to ensure we're always building on solid foundations.

That sounds just right for me. What do I need to bring?

Glad you asked. This is who we’re looking for:

Qualifications  🏆

• Engineering degree in computer science or 3+ years of DevOps/SRE experience, with strong candidates at 5+ years preferred

• Good knowledge of AWS (including ECS/Fargate ), Docker, Terraform , PostgreSQL at scale (experience with sharding, clustering, or high-volume scenarios preferred)

• Datadog expertise strongly preferred

• Experience with continuous integration and continuous deployment

• Experience with high-traffic, multi-tenant systems and database scaling strategies

• Knowledge and experience in data modeling, database design, and data management

• Strong operational mindset with experience in day-to-day production operations

• Experience with on-call rotations and production incident management

• Experience improving observability and monitoring systems

• Understanding of clean code and clean infrastructure practices

• You speak English fluently, French is a plus

Technical bonuses 💡

• Ruby on Rails experience is a plus

• Snowflake experience is a plus

• Change Data Capture and data pipeline experience is valuable

• Familiarity with high-traffic systems

• ARC (Actions Runner Controller) and Kubernetes is a plus

Qualities  🧠

• Autonomous and self-structured

• Willing to imagine and implement processes to ease developers' lives

• Passionate about solving problems and developing solutions

• A team player who values collaboration and feedback

Copy that. And what’s in it for me?

By joining Sweep, you'll be part of an exciting startup with a vision to change the world. We're ready to hit the ground running, and joining us at this early stage allows you the unique opportunity to help shape our journey.

Our flexible work model allows you to balance personal and professional commitments while staying connected with your global colleagues. Even though our hubs are in France, the UK and the US, we're committed to fostering a connected and engaged remote work culture.

As a B Corporation, we're dedicated to creating successful businesses that benefit everyone, including society and the planet.

Ready for the most exciting chapter of your career? Come join us on this extraordinary ride!