Site Reliability Engineer

1 month ago


Vancouver Metro Vancouver Regional District, CA Hiive LLC Full time

Hiive is a fintech/marketplace startup connecting buyers and sellers of stock in venture-backed pre-IPO companies. Thanks to our industry leading technology and our best in class capital markets team, we are home to the fastest growing marketplace for the stock of “unicorns” on the planet. As a profitable and rapidly growing business backed by tier one venture capital investors, we are seeking to scale our high performing team.

As the first Site Reliability Engineer at Hiive, you will be responsible for ensuring the reliability, availability, and performance of our platform. You’ll join our small but growing infrastructure team, where you will work directly with the DevOps team and engineering leadership. You will be a hands-on contributor and work to build scalable and resilient infrastructure, automate processes, and respond to incidents efficiently and effectively. You’ll help implement security and compliance measures. You’ll be a helpful resource to your colleagues, collaborating to optimize and improve our platform’s performance and reliability. You’ll also contribute to the team’s efforts to build an excellent and supportive engineering culture.

In this role, your responsibilities would include:

  • Maintain and improve our platform's uptime and availability.

  • Optimizing and maintaining our existing infrastructure to improve reliability, performance, and security.

  • Proactively identify and correct scaling and reliability issues before they become incidents or impact business metrics.

  • Troubleshooting performance issues with product engineers and implementing solutions.

  • Configuring and maintaining critical monitoring and alerting on platform performance and availability.

  • Assisting with incident response, including investigation, mitigation, and follow-up, and developing incident runbooks.

  • Joining on-call rotations on a schedule shared with the rest of our engineering organization.

Required Skills:

  • Previous experience working in an SRE or similar role.

  • Previous experience working with (writing or deploying) Elixir or a desire to learn.

  • Previous experience with production Kubernetes clusters.

  • Proficiency building infrastructure with Terraform.

  • Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS) – particularly with strong proficiency in EKS, RDS, and VPC — and Vercel.

  • Previous experience working with and optimizing PostgreSQL.

  • Previous experience working with Datadog or similar observability tools.

Preferred Skills:

  • Experience in regulated or high-compliance environments.

  • Experience with GitHub Actions for CI/CD.

  • Experience completing SOC2 or similar certification.

  • Experience working with Cloudflare.

  • Expertise with hands-on development in one or more programming languages.

Compensation, benefits & perks:

  • Opportunity to participate in ownership of a rapidly growing early-stage startup through our employee stock option plan.

  • Comprehensive 100% employer-paid health and dental premiums, and a health spending account.

  • A dedicated desk in our Vancouver, BC HQ, in the heart of downtown, with a fridge stocked with healthy snacks and drinks, an onsite gym and a gorgeous rooftop amenity.

  • Preference to those willing to work in our Vancouver, BC HQ, with a first-class view of the mountains. Open to Canadian or US-based remote candidates.

  • Enjoy a $20 per day commuter benefit for every day you work in our Vancouver HQ.

  • An engaging social calendar, including bi-weekly catered lunches, bi-weekly “Friday bar”, team workouts, annual summer party and holiday party, two “onsite” all-team retreats each year, semi-annual team-building events, and Hiive Womens’ Network events.

  • Significant opportunities for growth into team leadership and management roles.

  • Entrepreneurial culture, and a small and dynamic team.

  • Sponsorship, immigration and relocation for exceptional candidates.

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