Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Immutable is a global technology company, powering the leading platform for building games on Ethereum. We are on a mission to build the future of gaming by redefining how games are played and discovered. Founded in 2018, Immutable is one of the fastest Australian companies to hit unicorn status, having raised more than AUD $300M+ and a valuation of AUD $3.5 billion.

Currently, the Immutable Group consists of the Immutable Platform, the leading platform for building games on Ethereum powering successful games like RavenQuest and Immortal Rising 2, and Immutable Games, a global leader in web3 game development and publishing with leading titles Gods Unchained and Guild of Guardians.

Our ambition is to make digital worlds real; we have incredible global growth plans as the fastest growing gaming chain in 2024 with 250+ games signed, more than in all previous years combined. 🚀

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Immutable, you will have the autonomy to influence our SRE practices, team, and processes and to create a truly customer-driven SRE culture. As part of the SRE team, you will have a unique opportunity to shape the infrastructure, observability and tooling patterns used at Immutable and to share what the best practice SRE for blockchain technologies will be. The role is broadly scoped to have a cross-team impact in all the work we do.

You'll Be Empowered To 🎮:

• Develop and release Infrastructure as code
• Create and maintain multiple Kubernetes clusters supporting a variety of internal and external use cases
• Manage our AWS Cloud environment in collaboration with our Security team
• Define SLOs, SLIs, monitoring, alerting and incident response practices.
• Set the bar for observability excellence within the organisation
• Measure systems' health, scalability and performance metrics and identify areas of improvement.
• Ensure our incident management processes, automation, and remediation are world-class
• Work as a deep technical expert on the services we have ownership over (e.g., cleanup tech debt, maintenance, new architecture patterns)
• Mentor (where possible) other team members based on your experience.
• Lead by example to proactively foster an inclusive, diverse, and positive engineering culture across the business.
• Champion community building efforts and inclusion initiatives.
• Work in close partnership with the management team to ensure a healthy engineering org.

We'd Love You To Bring 🤝:

• 5+ years or more experience in a similar role
• A deep understanding of SRE best practices and processes.
• Experience in infrastructure as code development / or backend
• Experience with one or more coding languages (golang, python)
• Problem-solving approach (listening and reasoning)
• System design and strategic thinking
• Experience with AWS (or infrastructure at scale)
• Experience with Observability systems (SaaS and self-hosted)
• Extensive incident management experience
• Communication clarity and accuracy
• Team spirit over Silos
• Excellent collaboration skills to be able to work closely with product engineers and product owners to understand their context and co-design appropriate solutions which balance feature velocity with site reliability

Bonus Point For ✅:

• Experience with containerised and serverless architectures (we use both to keep our teams flexible).
• Worked on a large greenfields project (or many)
• Prior blockchain experience

💸 We commit to paying globally competitive salaries and contributions & we share our products' success through Employee Stock Options. We also support our US Employees with Medical and 401K Insurance

💻 Our flexible working model blends the best of both worlds: Sydney-based employees enjoy three days a week in our vibrant head office, while remote team members can work from home or utilise access to global office hubs via a WeWork All-Access pass

📲 We offer USD $500 WFH allowance to set up your home office and USD $600 per annum to put toward your internet and phone usage.

🌱 We offer up to USD $1,350 per annum for any classes, courses or events to support your growth and development

📚 Enjoy access to free online courses via Udemy

💆🏽♀️ Enjoy USD $800 per year to put toward your health and wellbeing

🤗 Get 24/7 access to unlimited counselling for you and your family when you need it through our EAP Service

🎁 Monthly subsidy and discounted rate with ClassPass, including a 1-year free membership to Breethe

👨👧👦 New parents receive 12 weeks of paid leave in our gender-neutral offer. The birthing parent also gets an additional six weeks of leave for rest and recovery leading up to and after birth. We also offer Miscarriage Leave and extra leave for IVF treatments

🎂 Enjoy 2 additional paid annual leave days at the end of the year and a paid day off for your birthday

Immutable is committed to building and fostering an inclusive, diverse workplace. We believe in incorporating everyone's perspectives and experiences as this has been a significant driver of our success so far.

We are a 2025 Circle Back Initiative Employer – we commit to responding to every applicant.

*A note to recruitment agencies: Our internal team has this role covered, so there is no need to reach out - We don't accept unsolicited agency resumes and are not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes. Thank you!

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