Software Engineer – Reliability Engineering Full Time

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As for the role; Starling Bank is looking for a Software Engineer- Reliability Engineering to join their company. Learn more about the role, requirements as well as benefits in the below description. Click on the Apply Now button to complete job application.”

– Startup of London Team

The Role

Starling technology works in a hybrid pattern from home and our three offices and we think we will be for a while to come. We’re open to applications from across the UK but our preference is that you’re located within a commutable distance to either our London, Southampton, or Cardiff office so that when we’re able to see each other and collaborate in person again, we’re ready to go!

Starling engineers love building things, creating new stuff, learning new technologies, and working with others across all areas of the business to bring brilliant products and features to life. We’re open-minded when it comes to hiring and we care more about aptitude and attitude than specific experience or qualifications. If you care enough to find elegant solutions to complex technical problems, we’d love to hear from you.

Requirements

Starling engineering has been DevOps from the start: our build-run teams are responsible for every aspect of the systems they own from conception and design through development, monitoring, operation, and evolution. But as we’ve grown, we developed an ever greater infrastructure and platform practice and teams that focus on observability and resilience across the platform and infrastructure. The future promises massive scale for Starling Bank and Starling Engine and these teams will grow. This is where you come in. Your responsibilities will include the following:

• Build and run the systems we need to ensure resilience across the whole platform, using cutting-edge techniques of observability and reliability engineering.
• Continually enhance incident response capability through tooling and practice improvements. Drive and participate in investigations, and post-mortems and ensure we never stop learning.
• Collaborate with other teams to establish key practices in their development lifecycle.
• Participate in chaos experimentation to improve resilience.

Though not necessarily required, an ideal candidate would

• be comfortable coding in at least one major language (e.g., Java, Go, Python, JavaScript)
• be an inveterate problem solver able to combine some big-picture architecture with detailed detective work
• have a passion to reduce toil via automation
• relish taking ownership of features from idea through to production
• have expertise in and enthusiasm for observability/monitoring/telemetry in modern cloud-based environments
• understand and evangelise the value of measuring with indicators and objectives (SLIs / SLOs)
• be conversant with concepts from domains such as Linux, networking, containerisation, distributed systems, immutable infrastructure, public clouds (particularly AWS & GCP), and SRE.

Benefits

• 25 days holiday (plus public hols). You’ll also get your birthday on us
• 16 hours of paid volunteering time a year
• Private Medical Insurance with VitalityHealth
• Contributory pension scheme
• We have many varied social groups set up and run by our employees – ForTheWin (a gaming group), Starling FC, book club, and many more!
• Discounts on cinema tickets, restaurants, shopping, and train tickets via a Perkbox membership
• Access to ‘salary sacrifice’ benefits such as Cycle to Work scheme
• Gym membership options

About Us

Starling is a leading digital bank on a mission to disrupt the banking industry.

Since our launch in 2014, we’ve surpassed 2 million accounts, including over 350,000 business accounts. Our total deposits, meanwhile, have topped £5 billion and we have lent over £2bn over the same period. We’re a fully licensed UK bank, and we have the culture and spirit of a fast-moving, disruptive technology company. We’ve won the Best British Bank award four years running, and now employ over 1500 people across our London, Southampton, Cardiff & Dublin offices.