Site Reliability Engineer - Storage

About the role

The Storage SRE team is responsible for automating, scaling, enhancing, and operating Proton's on-premise storage infrastructure. You will design and build resilient systems to support critical production services while collaborating with back-end engineers and architects. This role focuses on maintaining high availability and implementing best practices for data protection.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate resilient Storage infrastructure for Proton’s most critical production services
• Develop and maintain automation tools to enhance deployment processes, configuration management, and service reliability
• Improve monitoring, alerting, and incident response to maintain high availability and rapid issue resolution
• Optimize and scale Proton’s infrastructure
• Collaborate with product and security teams to implement best practices for privacy and data protection at every layer of the stack
• Document and share knowledge to foster a culture of learning and continuous improvement within the team and beyond
• Work closely with a group of Back-End Engineers and Architects to build resilient, massively-scalable solutions for millions of people to rely on
• Document back-end capabilities and their proper use
• Join the oncall rotation to operate the Storage service

Required skills

• Production systems
• Troubleshooting
• Software development
• Security best practices
• Cryptography

Nice to have

• Ceph
• Seaweed
• Tape

Benefits

• Stock options
• Health insurance
• Retirement savings options
• Lunch and snacks
• Transport subsidy
• Learning and development budget
• Flexible working hours

About the Company

Proton was founded in 2014 by scientists from CERN with the mission to provide privacy as a fundamental human right. The company provides encrypted tools including email, VPN, Drive, Pass, and Calendar to millions of users globally.