Description:
We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer with strong development skills and hands-on SRE experience to join our London-based team. You'll help shape the future of reliability and observability at Forter, ensuring we can build and run scalable, reliable and observable systems while collaborating with engineers across the globe. We maintain five-nines SLA for our platform and support 150+ engineers across 20+ teams. Our team values collaboration through pairing, continuous learning, and sustainable long-term solutions.
What you'll be doing
- Collaborate on designing, building, and maintaining Forter's kubernetes platform and our observability, monitoring, and alerting systems supporting 20+ engineering teams
- Complete our migration from EC2 VMs to kubernetes
- Complete our migration from ELK stack to our new scalable platform (Mimir, Grafana, Honeycomb, Loki, Quickwit)
- Work closely with engineering teams to improve their observability practices, SLOs, and kubernetes platform adoption
- Create intuitive developer tools that reduce MTTR and make troubleshooting easier
- Foster a culture of continuous learning through knowledge sharing and leading by example
- Collaborate through pairing and sharing sessions to ensure team alignment
- Balance short-term goals with long-term, sustainable infrastructure improvements
What you'll need
- Extensive experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes)
- Hands-on experience with observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Honeycomb, Loki, or similar)
- Development background using modern languages (Python, Java or JavaScript etc.)
- Comfortable with collaborative practices (pair programming, code reviews)
- Self-driven with passion for building high-quality, sustainable software
- Excellent communication skills for both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Growth mindset that embraces challenges as learning opportunities