Senior Site Reliability Engineer I

Careem is building the Everything App for the greater Middle East, making it easier than ever to move around, order food and groceries, manage payments, and more. Careem is led by a powerful purpose to simplify and improve the lives of people and build an inspiring organization. Since 2012, Careem has created earnings for over 2.5 million Captains, simplified the lives of over 70 million customers, and built a platform for the region’s best talent to thrive and for entrepreneurs to scale their businesses. Careem operates in over 70 cities across 10 countries, from Morocco to Pakistan.

About The Team

The team focuses on enabling persistence storage technologies and advancing cloud-native technology within Careem to shape the future of the platform and scale our efforts significantly.

What You'll Do

Build and maintain Kafka clusters and their ecosystems to ensure resilience, reliability, and scalability of services, enhancing deployment speed and improving products used by millions daily. Design, develop, and operate storage clusters on AWS, supporting tooling and creating technical processes to simplify and enable engineering efforts across multiple services. Automate and scale systems while ensuring security and reliability. Participate in on-call rotations and contribute to incident response improvements.

What You'll Need

5+ years of relevant experience. Expertise in developing, operating, and troubleshooting storage clusters or highly available systems at scale. Experience running Kafka on Kubernetes. Proficiency in one or more programming languages : Go, Python, Java, Groovy, Scala, Ruby. Experience with Cloud Infrastructure, preferably AWS. Knowledge of infrastructure automation (Infrastructure as Code) and a strong Unix / Linux background, including networking and scripting. Incident response / management experience is a plus. Additional skills in automation topics such as monitoring, CI / CD, and security are advantageous.

What we’ll provide you

We offer opportunities to make an impact in the region while learning and growing. As a full-time Careem employee, you will be able to : Work and learn from inspiring colleagues. Contribute to a purposeful organization dedicated to regional impact. Explore new learning and growth opportunities daily. Work 4 days a week in the office and 1 day from home, with the option to work remotely from any country for 30 days annually, plus unlimited vacation days. (In tech roles, 2 days in the office and 3 days remote.) Access healthcare benefits and fitness reimbursements for health-related activities.

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