Senior Site Reliability Engineer

We're Creative Fabrica, a fast-scaling tech start-up from Amsterdam.

Our mission

Enable creativity by giving access to everything related to the creative process: inspiration, learning, creating, and sharing. The ‘Creative Inspiration Flywheel’

This creates a self-sustaining community that lives within the Creative Fabrica ecosystem.

About the platform

We launched in 2016 as a marketplace for fonts with a subscription service. In the last 8 years, we have been through tremendous growth, and we're just getting started!

We have scaled to 50 million+ monthly page views, 8 million+ registrations, over 22 million listed products, and 22000+ active designers.

Our focus is to create a platform for designers that enables them to offer exceptional high-quality content. We make their products searchable in unique ways. This allows our customers to speed up their workflow, allowing them to focus on what they love most: Creating.

About the team:

The SRE team sits within the Platform function, the teams are focused on the Creative Fabrica infrastructure and foundational software components. That also includes dev experience, core domain services (foundational entities like identity management, authentication, authorization, sessions management, etc), and the content domain (management of lifecycle of all content items in the system). This is the foundation used by multiple feature teams at Creative Fabrica to build the end-user facing functionality and accelerate value delivery. 

Our Tech Stack:

AWS, Terraform, Go, Kubernetes, FluxCD, Helm, Victoria Metrics, Bash

What you will do:

• Improve our site infrastructure to keep up with the company’s fast growth and technology evolution.
• Proactively monitor the infrastructure and propose improvements.
• Lead the design and building of a fully automated, developer self-service platform.
• Research, develop and implement infrastructure management standards across our cloud accounts (AWS).
• Participate in pre-production and production site releases.
• Participate in the on-call rotation and in the debugging of issues.

What you will need to have:

• 4+ years operating and supporting a high-volume, high-performance, cloud-native distributed computing environment.
• Proven experience with Terraform, containers and monitoring solutions.
• Experience with wide array of AWS-based services (EC2, ECS/EKS, S3, RDS, ALB, MSK, DynamoDB, Redshift, etc).
• Experience supporting and deploying applications and microservices written in Go, Python and PHP.
• Experience with driving DevOps practices and developing automation solutions in a continuous deployment environment.
• Experience with Kubernetes and Kafka is highly preferred.

It would be great if you could also bring:

• Current AWS certifications.
• Experience diagnosing complex production incidents in cloud-based applications and services.
• Experience developing in PHP, Python, Typescript or Go.
• Experience with performance and load testing.

Our hiring process:

• Call with our tech recruiter  
• Technical assessment session with our engineers 
• Interview with our Architect
• Interviews with our executives/leadership

During the interview process, you will get the opportunity to come into our offices and meet the team. 

Let us take care of you:

Compensation
We recognize and reward hard work, skill, and ambition. Your compensation will be made up of base salary plus an equity-based incentive plan.

Sweet extras

You can also count on an annual learning budget, a company pension plan, and a travel allowance for office commute.

Time to recharge

24 days of annual leave plus local national holidays.

Flexibility

Our teams and people have different needs depending on what and how they need to deliver. That’s why we have company-wide guidelines around flexible and hybrid working arrangements.

Top-notch tools and gear
A great work setup. Laptop, screens, a stand-up desk, and more.

Awesome office
Our beautiful office in Jordaan isn't just a workspace; it's a place where creativity thrives. Enjoy delicious in-house meals, access our exclusive CF library, and collaborate with passionate and ambitious colleagues

Company events
Everything from after-work gatherings,  themed company events and amazing trips abroad, we want to create opportunities to bond and build meaningful connections.

Last year was Crete, this year Prague, and there will be more!

Is this you?:

Get in touch! We'd love to speak to you.

You can apply by clicking the "Apply now" button.

Creative Fabrica is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

Is this you?

Get in touch! We'd love to speak to you.

You can apply by clicking the "Apply now" button.

Creative Fabrica is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.