Staff Site Reliability Engineer at Tide Platform

Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India -

Full Time

Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

01 Mar, 26

Salary

0.0

Posted On

01 Dec, 25

Experience

10 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

Skills

Site Reliability Engineering, Java, Spring Boot, Cloud-Native Infrastructure, AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Observability, Incident Management, Distributed Systems, Database Management, Automation, Collaboration, Mentoring, Data-Driven Decision-Making, Fault-Tolerant Systems

Industry

Financial Services

Description

ABOUT TIDE At Tide we help SMEs save time (and money) in the running of their businesses by not only offering business accounts and related banking services, but also a comprehensive set of highly usable and connected administrative solutions from invoicing to accounting. Tide is transforming the small business banking market with over 1.6 million members globally across the UK, India, Germany and France. Using advanced technology, all solutions are designed with SMEs in mind. With quick onboarding, low fees and innovative features, we thrive on making data-driven decisions to help SMEs save both time and money. Tide facts: Tide is available for UK, Indian, German and French SMEs Over 1.6 million members: 800,000 UK and 800,000 in India and growing rapidly Over $200 million raised in funding Over 2500 Tideans globally - we’re diversity champions! We have offices in Central London, with a member support and technology centre in Sofia, Bulgaria, technology centres in Serbia, Romania, Lithuania and Hyderabad and offices in Gurugram and New Delhi, India ABOUT THE TEAM: As a member of the SRE team, you'll be at the core of ensuring platform resilience and providing top-tier observability. We manage observability platforms, enhance internal libraries with a focus on reliability, and automate incident management to maintain high service uptime. ABOUT THE ROLE: As Staff Site Reliability Engineer at Tide you will: Drive Observability Strategy: Evolve our observability practices using Datadog, promoting a culture of data-driven decision-making. You will champion the use of SLOs, automated alerting, and distributed tracing to ensure teams are on top of their service health Lead Incident Management Evolution: Refine and automate our incident management processes. You will build and improve tooling to reduce stress during incidents, lead blameless post-mortems, and ensure that we learn from every event to prevent recurrence Engineer for Reliability: Contribute directly to our internal libraries and service templates (primarily Java/Spring Boot) to provide a "paved road" for reliability. You will automate complex or repetitive tasks, such as database failovers or incident mitigation steps. Act as a Reliability Consultant: Serve as a subject matter expert for product teams, providing guidance on designing fault-tolerant systems, resolving complex production issues, and adopting reliability best practices WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR: A passion for building and operating resilient distributed systems at scale. You think deeply about failure modes, cascading effects, and recovery mechanisms Extensive experience (10+ years) in a software engineering or SRE role, with a strong background in backend development and systems architecture Deep expertise in a modern programming language. While our primary stack is Java, we value your depth of knowledge and welcome experts in languages like Go or Python who are willing to work with Java Experience with cloud-native infrastructure and tooling, including AWS, container orchestration (Kubernetes/EKS), and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) Strong familiarity with modern observability tooling (e.g., Datadog, Prometheus, Honeycomb) A collaborative and autonomous mindset. You are comfortable mentoring other engineers, driving cross-team initiatives, and communicating complex technical concepts to diverse audiences OUR TECH STACK: Java, Spring Boot and JOOQ to build the RESTful APIs of our microservices (but we welcome people who are used to any strongly typed general purpose programming language!) Event-driven architecture with messages over SNS+SQS and Kafka to make them reliable Primary datastores are MySQL and PostgreSQL via RDS or Aurora (we are heavy AWS users) Docker, Terraform, EKS used by the Cloud team to run the platform DataDog to keep it running GitHub with Semgrep and solid testing to power the CI/CD pipelines - new joiners are encouraged to have something deployed to production in their first 2 weeks Angular 2+ with Ngrx on Web, Flutter for the Mobile App Fivetran/Snowflake/Looker for the BI insights and Python/Faust/Flask/Tecton + some ML libs for the automated decisioning and risk management WHAT YOU’LL GET IN RETURN: Our location-specific employee benefits are designed to cater to the unique needs of Tideans: Competitive Compensation - competitive salary and share options Time Off – Generous annual leave on top of bank holidays. Parental Leave – Paid maternity, paternity, and adoption leave to support your family journey. Sabbatical – Extended unpaid and paid leave options after completing milestone years with Tide. Health Insurance – Private family insurance with additional OPD coverage and top-up options. Life & Accident Cover – Comprehensive accidental and life insurance protection. Mental Wellbeing – Access to therapy sessions, courses, meditations, and workshops. Volunteering & Development Days – Paid days annually for volunteering or personal growth. Learning & Development – Annual budget for books, courses, coaching, and more. WOO (Work Outside the Office) – Work from abroad for up to 90 days annually. Home Office Setup – Contribution towards setting up your home office Laptop Ownership – Keep your old laptop and get a new one when it’s time for a replacement. Snacks & Meals – Office perks with snacks, coffee, tea, and lunch (location dependent). TIDEAN WAYS OF WORKING At Tide, we champion a flexible workplace model that supports both in-person and remote work to cater to the specific needs of our different teams. While remote work is supported, we believe in the power of face-to-face interactions to foster team spirit and collaboration. Our offices are designed as hubs for innovation and team-building, where we encourage regular in-person gatherings to foster a strong sense of community. TIDE IS A PLACE FOR EVERYONE At Tide, we believe that we can only succeed if we let our differences enrich our culture. Our Tideans come from a variety of backgrounds and experience levels. We consider everyone irrespective of their ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, veteran, neurodiversity or differently-abled status. We celebrate diversity in our workforce as a cornerstone of our success. Our commitment to a broad spectrum of ideas and backgrounds is what enables us to build products that resonate with our members’ diverse needs and lives. We are One Team and foster a transparent and inclusive environment, where everyone’s voice is heard. At Tide, we thrive on diversity, embracing various backgrounds and experiences. We welcome all individuals regardless of ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability. Our inclusive culture is key to our success, helping us build products that meet our members' diverse needs. We are One Team, committed to transparency and ensuring everyone’s voice is heard. Disclaimer It has come to our attention that individuals or agencies are falsely claiming to represent Tide and are reaching out to candidates regarding job opportunities. Please be aware that: Tide does not charge any fees at any stage of the recruitment process. All official Tide job opportunities are listed exclusively on our Careers Page and applications should be submitted through this channel. Communication from Tide will only come from an official @tide.co email address. Tide does not work with agencies or recruiters without prior formal engagement, and we do not authorize third parties to make job offers on our behalf. If you are contacted by anyone misrepresenting Tide or requesting payment, please treat it as fraudulent and report it to us immediately at talent@tide.co Your safety and trust are important to us, and we are committed to ensuring a fair and transparent recruitment process. Tide leverages AI to enhance our hiring experience. You can read more about how we use AI in our recruitment process in our AI Policy. Your personal data will be processed by Tide for recruitment purposes and in accordance with Tide's Recruitment Privacy Notice.

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Responsibilities

As a Staff Site Reliability Engineer, you will drive observability strategy and lead incident management evolution. You will also engineer for reliability and act as a reliability consultant for product teams.