Staff Engineer, Site Reliability

Work Mode: Flex 1+ days per week in our Dublin office Department: Engineering About the Company LearnUpon partners with over 1,600 organisations globally to unlock the potential of employees, customers members through learning that’s easy, scalable and focused on results. Read more about life at LearnUpon here .

About The Team

Our Engineering organization is dedicated to building robust, scalable infrastructure that handles world-scale platform demands . As part of the Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team, we focus on system architecture, absolute performance, and technical innovation . Operating with high ownership and technical expertise, we are responsible for the scale-out of the LearnUpon infrastructure, championing internal self-service tooling, and embedding a culture of observability and shared operational responsibility across all engineering squads .

About the Opportunity As a Staff Site Reliability Engineer, you will be a principal technical leader and a key catalyst for our infrastructure's evolution. In this role, you will take ownership of our core platform resilience, driving the strategy to build out an advanced, cost-effective observability function spanning metrics, logs, and transaction tracking.

Requirements

, and mentor talent to ensure LearnUpon scales efficiently to support our ambitious global goals. In addition, you’ll be responsible for: Infrastructure Optimization: Identify opportunities to improve and scale our infrastructure for performance, observability, maintainability, and cost, by creating innovative solutions. Observability Function Strategy: Lead our efforts to build an observability function that incorporates application metrics, application transaction tracking, and event log management.

Tooling Self-Service: Build tools focused on measuring, monitoring, and alerting, with an eye towards self-service in order to promote Engineers’ ownership of observability. Operational Agility Support: React quickly to changing customer and business needs and actively participate in the team's on-call rota. Team Up-Leveling: Mentor junior talent and effectively communicate complex technical ideas to both technical and non-technical peers.

Skills Experience Must-Haves 7+ years of experience in a software or Ops role. 5+ years of cloud engineering experience, with at least 2 years of experience with AWS. Experience deploying Microservice environments using containerisation technologies such as Kubernetes and Docker.

of performance, security, and disaster recovery. ). Experience using AI tools to streamline tasks and improve efficiencies.

Nice-to-Haves Experience with database scaling would be a strong plus. Certification in AWS, any PaaS, and/or related technologies. *If you don’t tick every box but believe this role is a mutually good fit, please don’t hesitate to apply.

We’d love to hear from you. Why choose LearnUpon?

Benefits

to Engineering teams, and managing the associated cost analysis of metrics gathering, effort, and tooling. Ability to architect the design of SLO/SLI implementations that balance the needs of different teams.