Senior Site Reliability Engineer

About the Position

We are seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with 5+ years of experience in Linux and system-level expertise to join our team in Austin, TX. This role involves managing large-scale environments and optimizing system stability.

Responsibilities

• Manage and optimize large-scale environments (5,000+ hosts) running technologies like Kafka, Redis, and Kubernetes.
• Independently troubleshoot incidents, lead and support post-incident service recovery, and drive improvements to overall system stability, performance, and observability.
• Operate autonomously in complex production environments.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure system reliability and performance.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in Linux system administration or SRE roles.
• Proven experience managing large-scale infrastructure environments.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure (Google Cloud).
• Strong troubleshooting and performance tuning skills at the infrastructure level.
• Basic scripting/automation experience (Bash, Python).
• Familiarity with IaC tools (e.g., Ansible, Puppet).
• Knowledge of distributed systems and container orchestration (Kafka, Kubernetes, etc.).
• Excellent communication and problem-solving skills.

We Offer

• Competitive salary: $185,000 - $225,000 a year.
• Hybrid work environment: 3 days in the office per week.
• On-call rotation: one week every 4–5 weeks (24x7 coverage).
• Comprehensive benefits including Medical, Dental, Vision, 401(k) match, Unlimited Paid Time Off Policy, and more.
• Maven Fertility: $10,000 lifetime benefit for fertility, adoption, abortion care, and more.
• 26 Weeks Parental Leave: For both primary and secondary caregivers.
• Family & Compassionate Leave: Inclusive of domestic violence recovery.
• Unlimited Paid Time Off: Take the time you need.
• Company-wide Week Off: Annual collective rest for the entire company.
• Focus Fridays: No meetings, emails, or deadlines-just deep work.

About the Company

Bumble Inc. is the parent company of Bumble Date, BFF, and Badoo. The Bumble platform enables people to build healthy and equitable relationships, through Kind Connections. Founded by Whitney Wolfe Herd in 2014, Bumble was one of the first dating apps built with women at the center and connects people across dating (Bumble Date) and friendship (BFF). BFF is a friendship app where people in all stages of life can meet people nearby and create meaningful platonic connections and community based on shared interests. Badoo, which was founded in 2006, is one of the pioneers of web and mobile dating products.

Inclusion at Bumble Inc.

Bumble Inc. is an equal opportunity employer and we strongly encourage people of all ages, colour, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and non-binary people, veterans, parents, people with disabilities, and neurodivergent people to apply. We're happy to make any reasonable adjustments that will help you feel more confident throughout the process, please don't hesitate to let us know how we can help.

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