Site Reliability Engineer

Ready to make a big impact on a global scale?

Payscale are an industry leader in compensation management. We combine cutting-edge data, innovative software, and expert services to help organisations make fair and strategic pay decisions.

Our Mission:

To empower employers and employees with the confidence to know the "what" and "why" behind transparent pay and compensation. If you’re a seasoned SRE ready to innovate, come and join our team! 🚀

Why You’ll Love It Here:

• Massive Investment & Global Impact: Over $400 million invested and expanding rapidly. Trusted by more than 50% of the Fortune 500 across 198 countries.
• Product Innovation: Help build and scale impactful SaaS tools shaping the future of compensation.
• Tech-First Culture: Collaborate across borders with top-tier engineers, architects, product managers, and QA experts.
• Leadership Opportunity: Define architecture, mentor engineers, and lead discussions that drive real business value.

What You’ll Do:

• Improve Observability: Enhance logging, alerting, and monitoring to ensure maximum uptime and early incident detection.
• Infrastructure Evolution: Help unify and maintain backend infrastructure as we transition toward Kubernetes, while managing legacy VMs and container-based environments.
• Tool Ownership: Support and expand internal tools for CI/CD, provisioning, monitoring, and disaster recovery.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with engineers, data teams, and product stakeholders to ensure our infrastructure is robust and scalable.
• Drive Reliability: Proactively identify and address issues in production systems to ensure performance, reliability, and scalability.
• Cloud Operations: Operate across cloud platforms including Azure and AWS, using tools such as Jenkins, Octopus, TeamCity, and GitHub Actions.
• On-Call Excellence: Participate in a team-wide rotation to respond to incidents and ensure system availability.

You’ll have:

• 3+ years’ experience as a Site Reliability Engineer or DevOps Engineer
• Strong background in builds, deployments, monitoring, and testing
• Experience with Kubernetes and Docker
• Hands-on expertise with observability and alerting tools (e.g., Datadog, Sentry, PagerDuty, Pingdom)
• Scripting proficiency (e.g., Python, Bash, PowerShell)
• Familiarity with both relational and NoSQL databases (e.g., SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis)
• Exposure to cloud platforms (Azure and/or AWS)
• Basic knowledge of object-oriented programming (e.g., C#, Java)
• Familiarity with automated testing and tools like Selenium
• Excellent troubleshooting, communication, and critical thinking skills

What you’ll receive:

• Salary: Competitive monthly salary – up to 34,633 gross RON per month
• Bonus Scheme: Annual performance-based bonus
• Flexible Work: We go into the Bucharest office once per month
• Time Off: 25 vacation days, 15 public holidays + 2 Payscale holidays (Global Mental Health Day & US Independence Day)
• Health: Private medical insurance with options to cover family
• Learning & Growth: Career development, mentorship, and promotion pathways (60+ internal promotions last year!)
• Wellbeing Perks: $300 annual wellness/office stipend, floating holidays, and up to 4 company-wide “complementary” days off
• Belonging: DEIB-focused culture with active ERGs like Pride at Payscale and Women & Gender Minorities in Tech