As the sole Site Reliability Engineer, you will own the infrastructure and observability for a platform experiencing exponential growth. You will manage a sophisticated AWS/Pulumi stack, optimizing database performance for billion-row datasets and ensuring high availability for real-time chat and streaming features. This is a high-impact role providing full platform autonomy.
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Site Reliability Engineer at Equals
Own the infrastructure behind the world's largest social music network! This high-growth platform connects over a million users through real-time chat and streaming, and they need a sole SRE to take full command of their AWS and Pulumi-based stack. With a £90k+ base and a massive £100k+ equity package, this is a rare opportunity to move into a high-leverage role where you manage everything from PostgreSQL 17 performance to global data pipelines. If you thrive on autonomy and want to scale a product seeing exponential monthly growth, this London-based role is your next big career move.
About this role
Role overview
About the company
EQUALS
Rapidly scaling social music network with over 1 million users
What you'll do
What you will do
- Manage and evolve AWS infrastructure using Pulumi (TypeScript), overseeing ECS/Fargate, RDS PostgreSQL 17, and ElastiCache Redis clusters at scale.
- Optimize data pipelines and warehouse performance, handling massive music catalog ingestions of over 1 billion rows and managing Airbyte and RudderStack integrations.
- Lead incident response and observability, utilizing Datadog APM to tune alerting, reduce noise, and maintain 24/7 system health for a global user base.
Who you are
Who this is a fit for
- Proven experience managing AWS environments (ECS, RDS, S3) using Infrastructure-as-Code tools like Pulumi, Terraform, or AWS CDK.
- Deep technical expertise in PostgreSQL performance tuning, indexing strategies, and Redis scaling for high-concurrency applications and message queues.
- Demonstrated ability to act as a sole infrastructure owner, comfortably managing CI/CD pipelines, production failovers, and complex cloud networking via Cloudflare.
Why this role
Why this role is remarkable
- Take full ownership of the entire infrastructure stack for the world's largest social music network, moving beyond feature work to core platform engineering.
- Scale a high-traffic consumer product serving over a million users with real-time requirements, including chatrooms, music streaming, and complex recommendation engines.
- Enjoy significant financial upside with a generous £100k+ equity package and a competitive £90k+ base salary in a high-growth environment.
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