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Site Reliability Engineer

Darktrace · Cambridge, United Kingdom

External listingfull-timeabout 1 month ago

About The Role

Join our team as a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) and play a key role in shaping the future of our platform reliability strategy. In this position, you will act as the go-to authority in your area of expertise, working across teams to embed best practices, solve complex reliability challenges, and improve system resilience at scale. You will focus on a core domain of expertise, such as observability, performance engineering, data infrastructure reliability, security-focused SRE, or network reliability, while influencing reliability standards across the wider engineering organization.

  • Act as the subject matter expert in your chosen reliability domain, defining and implementing standards, frameworks, and best practices across SRE, Platform Engineering, and DevSecOps.
  • Design and implement solutions to complex, cross-cutting reliability challenges, building tooling, automation, and frameworks to improve system resilience and scalability.
  • Play a key role in incident response, particularly within your specialism, contributing to on-call rotations and continuous improvement of operational processes.
  • Security-focused SRE (hardening, compliance automation, secrets management)
  • Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts clearly
  • Observability & monitoring (metrics, logging, distributed tracing)
  • Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) and Kubernetes
  • Self-driven with the ability to identify and prioritise high-impact work independently
  • Data infrastructure reliability (databases, streaming, pipelines)
  • Proven experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or infrastructure engineering
  • Network reliability & traffic management
  • Performance engineering & capacity planning
  • Deep expertise in at least one of the following areas:
  • Strong programming skills (e.g. Go, Python, or similar)
  • Experience building internal developer platforms or tooling
  • Contributions to open-source, technical blogs, or public speaking
  • Experience working in regulated environments
  • Relevant certifications in your specialist domain
  • Familiarity with SLO frameworks and error budget management

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