Software Engineer, SRE

Our client is one of the world's leading online gambling companies. Company Description We're one of the world's leading online gambling companies, revolutionising the industry since 2000. Founded by Denise Coates CBE, we now employ over 10,000 people and serve over 120 million customers in 26 languages. We empower our employees to push boundaries and explore new ideas, cultivating a culture that celebrates and rewards creativity.

This offers employees a wealth of growth opportunities, giving them the opportunity to make a real impact in the world of online gambling. As a forward-thinking company, we're breaking new ground in software innovation too, redefining what's possible for our global worldwide. Our focus on In-Play betting has solidified our market-leading position, featuring more than 1.38 million In-Play sporting events a year.

With over 750 concurrent sporting fixtures at peak and more live sports streamed than anyone else in Europe (750,000), we handle over 6 million HTTP requests daily and process more than 1.5 million bets per hour  Description As a Site Reliability Engineer, you will enhance system reliability, observability and performance through a strong engineering approach and assist with incident resolution and best practices.

You will have strong software engineering skills, approaching system reliability and observability as a software problem — protecting, providing for, and progressing the performance and availability of our critical systems. Using your engineering expertise, you will implement solutions that enhance reliability, including service instrumentation with Open Telemetry and improved logging practices. You will leverage AI tools and LLM platforms in your daily work to reduce toil, drive autonomous operations, and optimise system health, while engineering automation and tooling for effective service management.

Collaboration is key, working across multiple functions to embed reliability and observability best practices throughout the software development life cycle. Your contributions will ensure our systems meet user demands and foster a culture of continuous improvement. This role is eligible for inclusion in the Company's hybrid working from home policy. Qualifications Excellent knowledge of programming languages including Python, Golang and JavaScript.

Knowledge and experience of modern software development techniques and life cycles. Excellent knowledge of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles, including the creation and management of effective Service Level Indicators (SLI's) and Service Level Objectives (SLO's) for reliability and customer satisfaction. Knowledge of contemporary observability tools, techniques and best practice including Splunk, New Relic, Grafana and Pager Duty. Proficiency in shell scripting for automation and system management tasks.

Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC), automation and orchestration tools such as Ansible and Terraform. Prior experience working in a large scale, 24/7 enterprise where system uptime and stability is of paramount importance to the business. An AI-native engineering approach, with hands-on experience using LLM platforms and coding assistants to improve productivity and quality, and the ability to integrate AI-driven telemetry for advanced observability, predictive insights and root-cause analysis.

Additional Information Developing and maintaining tools that facilitate effective management of our systems, ensuring they are operationally efficient and resilient. Working with automation and orchestration platforms to automate manual activity and reduce toil. Writing and contributing to code that enhances the reliability and observability of services, including telemetry,…