Job Description, Responsibilities & Requirements
About the Position
Site Reliability Engineer - Canada Wide - Remote
Location: Toronto, Ontario
Company: Newton
At Newton, we're revolutionizing how Canadians trade crypto. Our mission is to make financial freedom accessible to everyone. We provide our customers with the tools and knowledge they need to navigate the crypto world.
Join our remote team spread across Canada and be part of a meaningful mission. We're a dynamic team that thrives on collaboration, continuous improvement, and creativity. Together, we push boundaries and achieve success.
Responsibilities
- Implementing improvements to the reliability, fault tolerance, scalability, and performance of our infrastructure
- Managing incidents using technical know-how to involve the appropriate teams and automate manual practices
- Providing support to our critical services by responding to automated alerts through our on-call rotation
- Defining and maintaining SLIs, SLOs, SLA, and error budgets to guide reliability decisions
- Improving observability across our systems (metrics, logs, tracing) to reduce time to detection and resolution
- Making production issues easier to detect, troubleshoot, and resolve
- Improving monitoring, alerting, dashboards, tracing, and runbooks for critical services
- Leading postmortems and follow-up actions to reduce repeat incidents
Requirements
- Experience designing and operating scalable, reliable systems in AWS or a similar cloud environment
- Experience handling on-call shifts for critical systems
- Experience with chaos engineering (i.e. Gremlin)
- Ability to dive in and debug live production systems
- Enjoy working in a growing system, and writing and deploying code without any downtime
- Experience scripting and/or development (i.e. Linux Shell, Python, Javascript, Java)
- Self-starter, taking initiative in an ambiguous space preferably within a start-up environment
We Offer
- Opportunity to work with a dynamic and innovative team
- Remote work options across Canada
- A chance to be part of a company that is changing the crypto trading landscape
About the Company
Newton is committed to providing an inclusive work environment and welcomes members of all backgrounds and perspectives. We are dedicated to continuous improvement and embrace creativity and experimentation. We strive to push the boundaries of what’s possible and continuously explore new ideas, technologies, and solutions.
Some of our values:
- Customer first mindset: Commitment to integrity and transparency to our users!
- Dynamic team: Fueled by collaboration uniting our strengths to overcome any obstacles. Together we build success. We persevere, adapt, and come back stronger, turning obstacles into opportunities.
- Continuous improvement: We strive for continuous improvement and embrace creativity and encourage experimentation. We push the boundaries of what’s possible and continuously explore new ideas, technologies, and solutions.
We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.