Site Reliability Engineer Lisboa

Go
Cardless is a global payment platform that helps over 100, 000 businesses collect and send payments through direct debit, real‑time payments and open banking. We process more than US$130bn of payments annually across 30+ countries, leveraging AI‑powered solutions to improve payment success, reduce fraud and provide faster, more informed decisions for our customers. Our headquarters are in the UK, with additional offices in Australia, France, Ireland, Latvia, Portugal and the United States.

Platform Engineering at Go
Cardless

The Platform Engineering team is a unified, globally distributed team that works with all other engineering teams to empower them to build, release, run and scale their products. We operate with a strong focus on strategic project delivery and operational excellence. Our work is a balance of project delivery, operational support and business as usual (BAU).

The role

Foundations group is searching for an engineer with a strong interest in infrastructure management and the site reliability engineering problem space. You will be a member of a distributed team working with all other engineering teams – from product to data – to help build and scale the global platform our payments and open banking products sit on. If you enjoy hard challenges, value learning and want to create an impact, then this is a place for you.

What excites you

• Building and maintaining automation of new and existing infrastructure
• Appreciating and believing in building easy‑to‑understand and maintain tools to solve problems
• Automating operational tasks to eliminate toil using your software development skills and experience
• Ensuring that systems are safe and secure against cybersecurity threats
• Working closely with software engineers and data scientists
• Being involved in the technical design of architecture and making technical decisions
• Ongoing opportunities to further develop your skills
• Care about working with people who share the same values as you and who will continually push you to grow

What excites us

• Experience with at least one programming language such as Python, Ruby, Golang, etc.
• Experience with Ia
  C tooling, such as Terraform
• Previous experience with Terraform automation toolings such as Terragrunt or Atlantis will be considered an advantage
• Experience with cloud computing providers such as AWS or GCP
• Experience with containerized applications
• Previous experience with container orchestration such as Kubernetes and GKE will be considered an advantage
• Experience with CI/CD tooling such as Github, Git
  Hub Actions, Argo
  CD, etc.
• Experience working with monitoring tooling such as Grafana, Prometheus, Zabbix, etc.
• Previous experience with centralised log management through Elastic tooling will be considered an advantage
• Experience with relational databases and other datastores, especially around high availability and performance optimisation
• Awareness of Dev
  Ops and Agile principles
• Fluency in English
• Excellent teamwork and communication skills

Salary range

Base salary ranges are between €42, 400 and €63, 600 gross. Base salary ranges are based on role, job level, location and market data. Offers will take into account level of experience, interview assessment, budgets and parity between you and fellow employees at Go
Cardless doing similar work.

Benefits

• Wellbeing – stay healthy with dedicated support and medical cover
• Work away scheme – you can apply to work away from your country of residence for up to 90 days in any 12‑month period (in accordance with our work away policy)
• Adaptive Working – Our hybrid workplace model fosters collaboration and flexibility, with in‑office days determined at team level
• Equity – all permanently employed Go
  Cardless employees receive equity so we can share in the success we achieve together
• Parental leave – to suit everyone embarking on life's great adventure
• Time off – generous holiday allowance, + 3 annual volunteer days, + 4 annual business‑wide wellness days (‘GC Fridays’)