Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Senior Platform Engineer (Remote)

FULL-TIME / 100% Remote / Within Europe / Central European Time Zone (CET)

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Skedda is a leading global workplace management platform dedicated to streamlining desk and room reservations and scheduling. We serve over 7,000 customers and nearly two million users, including IBM, Siemens, Mercedes-Benz, and Harvard University. 

Today, the product includes functionality such as floor plan visualizations, desk and meeting room booking, visitor management, and utilization reports and analytics. Skedda integrates with key workplace tools like Microsoft365, Google Workspace, and Slack; and has won awards from G2, Capterra, and SoftwareAdvice.

Role Overview 

The Senior Platform Engineer will be responsible for designing and maintaining cloud infrastructure, managing DevOps pipelines, ensuring system reliability, and overseeing release management, primarily within Azure. This role demands expertise in PaaS-based cloud infrastructure, security, automation, and CI/CD pipelines, along with a proactive, detail-oriented approach to production environments. As part of a small, highly collaborative remote team, the engineer will play a key role in shaping Skedda’s scalable, high-quality platform while enjoying flexibility, cutting-edge tools, and a strong engineering culture.

Responsibilities

Cloud Infrastructure

• Designing, implementing, and maintaining cloud infrastructure - our Infrastructure Stack: Azure Cloud (PaaS-level resources), Azure DevOps

• Implementing infrastructure as code (IaC) using Bicep for Skedda’s cloud resources in Azure

• Design and test relevant automations for cloud-resource provisioning, backup and recovery

• Implementing and maintaining relevant security and compliance policies

• Provide guidance on best practices for cloud infrastructure

DevOps

• Management, monitoring, and maintenance of build, test and deployment pipelines in Azure DevOps (for mobile and web products)

• Provide guidance on best practices for software delivery and operations

SRE

• Incident response, triage, and management

• Conducting infrastructure capacity planning and performance tuning

• Collaborating with engineers to design and implement scalable and resilient systems

• Maintenance and improvement of cloud infrastructure reliability and scalability

• Implementing and maintaining disaster recovery procedures

Release Management

• Creating and maintaining release schedules

• Coordinating the release of software and systems with the engineering team

• Identifying and mitigating risks associated with releases

• Provide guidance on best practices for release management

About you

• You pay significant attention to detail and triple-check your work, particularly when dealing with production systems

• You have a strong track record as a reliable engineer that can be entrusted to manage production infrastructure without causing incidents

• You make mistakes and learn fast in test/playground environments (avoiding mistakes in production environments)

• You honor your word and own whatever you take on

• You like small teams

• You’re not afraid to ask questions

• You want to make a difference in the real world

• You’re self-driven

• You follow your intuition and sync when needed

• You strive for excellence in everything you do

Skills & Experience

• 5+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps, and/or SRE

• Strong experience with PaaS-based cloud infrastructure in Azure: App Service, Storage, SQL Database, Front Door, Key Vault, Log Analytics Workspace

• Strong understanding of cloud-security concepts

• Strong scripting skills on the Azure platform (e.g. Azure CLI)

• Strong communication and collaboration skills

• Experience with Bicep for Azure

• Experience with creating and maintaining Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines in YAML

• Experience with production deployment changes and releases

• Experience with Disaster Recovery

• Experience with monitoring and logging tools

Benefits

• Competitive salary

• Flexible schedule in our fully-remote team

• Creative and collaborative work environment

• Work directly with our Chief Architect and Co-Founder based in Europe

• A thorough, organized engineering onboarding process for quick learning

• Hardware of your choice - PC or Mac

• Develop with the latest platforms, frameworks, tooling and standards

• Work in, and maintain, a zero technical debt environment

• Very low production incident count (see status.skedda.com)

• Be part of a small team

• Be empowered to leave a significant mark on the product and the customers

About us

We’re an international team from 14+ countries with a growing presence in Boston. We place a lot of value on collaborating asynchronously across time zones but also understand the benefits of working together in person. Our team has doubled in size in the last year and continues to grow quickly. 

At Skedda, our Mission is to empower organizations to bring workspaces to life. We take feedback from customers seriously and constantly iterate to improve our product. We’re a self-driven, curious, down-to-earth group of people who know how to balance moving quickly while maintaining a high bar for quality. Every team member at Skedda embodies our six core virtues: 

• We are a community

• Quality is at our core

• Take ownership

• Create momentum every day

• Tackle hard problems

• Be curious

We are defining the future of the workplace experience, helping businesses to design meaningful, seamless, fully integrated employee experiences and interactions in the hybrid workplace. We’re growing fast with a lot of new opportunities ahead!To learn more about Skedda, please visit https://www.skedda.com/blog/skedda-mission-vision-virtues.