Site Reliability Engineer
Site Reliability Engineer owning application-level infrastructure—Kubernetes deployments, Terraform configs, CI/CD pipelines, SLO/SLI observability via Datadog/OpenTelemetry, capacity planning, and incident response—on GCP/GKE for a video-game commerce and payments platform.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Russia
- Work setup
- Hybrid
- Seniority
- Not specified
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 3+ years
- Category
- Sre
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 3+ years of SRE, DevOps, or Platform Engineer experience including on-call, SLO, monitoring, deployment pipelines, and production infrastructure
- Software development experience: backend services, code analysis during incidents, production-quality automation in at least one language (Go or PHP)
- Practical Kubernetes experience: Helm, manifests, deploy strategies, performance/network diagnostics; GKE or other managed K8s
- Observability: monitors, dashboards, SLO/SLI on modern platforms (Datadog preferred; Prometheus/Grafana relevant; OpenTelemetry familiarity)
- Infrastructure as Code experience with Terraform/Terragrunt
- GCP experience including IAM, networking, and managed services
- CI/CD pipeline creation and maintenance in GitLab CI and/or GitHub Actions
- Programming and scripting skills (Python, Go, or Bash) for automation and internal tooling
- Incident response experience: post-mortems, reliability improvements based on incidents
- Strong communication and teamwork skills for close daily collaboration with product teams
- Experience with payment systems, fintech, e-commerce, or gaming products with high-load transactional systems
Nice to have
- Kubernetes certifications
- Google Cloud Platform certifications
- HashiCorp certifications
Full description
ABOUT YOU
We are looking for a Site Reliability Engineer who is pragmatic, product-minded, and equally comfortable writing code and running production systems to join our Infrastructure department's SRE team. The best candidate will be someone who thrives in a fast-paced, highly collaborative, and exceptionally dynamic setting and is excited to own the application-level infrastructure and reliability of a high-traffic commerce domain end to end - from deploy pipelines and Kubernetes manifests to SLOs, capacity planning, and production readiness.
Strong Kubernetes, observability, and software engineering skills are essential, along with experience in operating production services in a cloud environment (GCP/GKE or comparable) and partnering closely with product development teams. The ability to hold a dual perspective - understanding both how developers ship features and what infrastructure needs to stay reliable - and to bring the reliability lens into design decisions early will be key to your success in this role.
If you're passionate about making complex distributed systems boringly reliable and love building the commerce and monetization backbone that lets game developers around the world get paid, we would love to hear from you!
ABOUT US
Xsolla is a global commerce company with robust tools and services to help developers solve the inherent challenges of the video game industry. From indie to AAA, companies partner with Xsolla to help them fund, distribute, market, and monetize their games. Grounded in the belief in the future of video games, Xsolla is resolute in the mission to bring opportunities together, and continually make new resources available to creators. Headquartered and incorporated in Los Angeles, California, Xsolla operates as the merchant of record and has helped over 1,500+ game developers to reach more players and grow their businesses around the world. With more paths to profits and ways to win, developers have all the things needed to enjoy the game.
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Responsibilities
- Own the application-level infrastructure: Helm charts, Terraform configurations, Kubernetes deployments, runtime configuration, and service-level networking and integrations
- Own the domain's observability: design and implement SLOs/SLIs, monitors, alerts, and dashboards for critical services on Datadog and OpenTelemetry-based tooling
- Help to set up and evolve CI/CD pipelines for domain services (GitLab CI, GitHub Actions), including deploy and rollback automation
- Perform capacity planning and performance tuning ahead of expected load - product launches, sales events, and regional rollouts - including load testing and performance regression investigation