Newton is hiring a Site Reliability Engineer - Canada Wide - Remote in Engineering — Toronto, Ontario. The overview below is synthesized from the employer posting on jobs.lever.co: factual requirements and scope are preserved, but prose is rewritten with editorial context. Verify details and apply via the employer link.
Say hello to Newton! We're changing how Canadians trade crypto.
At Newton, you'll work with a remote team spread across Canada, but you'll never feel distant. Ready to be part of something meaningful?
Some of our values:
● Customer first mindset - Commitment to integrity and transparency to our users!
● A dynamic team fueled by collaboration uniting our strengths to overcome any obstacles. Together we build success.
● We strive for continuous improvement and embrace creativity and encourage experimentation. We push the boundaries of what’s possible and continuously explore new ideas, technologies, and solutions.
Say hello to Newton! We're changing how Canadians trade crypto.
At Newton, you'll work with a remote team spread across Canada, but you'll never feel distant. Ready to be part of something meaningful?
Some of our values:
● Customer first mindset - Commitment to integrity and transparency to our users!
● A dynamic team fueled by collaboration uniting our strengths to overcome any obstacles. Together we build success.
● We strive for continuous improvement and embrace creativity and encourage experimentation. We push the boundaries of what’s possible and continuously explore new ideas, technologies, and solutions.
Role Overview
Day-to-day scope for the Site Reliability Engineer - Canada Wide - Remote as described in the posting:
The listing frames the Site Reliability Engineer - Canada Wide - Remote at Newton as a hands-on product role. You’ll work closely with engineering teams to improve system design and operational excellence. You’ll help prevent incidents, lead response efforts, and drive improvements through post-mortems. Your mission: ensure our systems are reliable, scalable, and resilient.
Responsibilities will include
Day-to-day scope for the Site Reliability Engineer - Canada Wide - Remote as described in the posting:
- Implementing the improvements to the reliability, fault tolerance, scalability, and performance of our infrastructure
- Managing incidents using your technical know-how to involve the appropriate teams and automate away manual practices
- Providing support to our critical services by responding to automated alerts through our on-call rotation
- Define and maintain SLIs, SLOs,SLA, and error budgets to guide reliability decisions
- Improve observability across our systems (metrics, logs, tracing) to reduce time to detection and resolution
- Make production issues easier to detect, troubleshoot, and resolve
- Improving monitoring, alerting, dashboards, tracing and runbooks for critical services
- Leading postmortems and follow-up actions to reduce repeat incidents
Who you are
Experience and skills the team lists as required:
- You have experience designing and operating scalable, reliable systems in AWS or a similar cloud environment
- You have handled on-call shifts for critical systems
- You are experienced with chaos engineering (i.e. Gremlin)
- You are able to dive in and debug live production systems
- You enjoy working in a growing system, and writing and deploying code without any downtime
- You have experience scripting and/or development (i.e. Linux Shell, Python, Javascript, Java)
- You are a self-starter, taking initiative in an ambiguous space preferably within a start-up environment
Role Overview
Day-to-day scope for the Site Reliability Engineer - Canada Wide - Remote as described in the posting:
The listing frames the Site Reliability Engineer - Canada Wide - Remote at Newton as a hands-on product role. You’ll work closely with engineering teams to improve system design and operational excellence. You’ll help prevent incidents, lead response efforts, and drive improvements through post-mortems. Your mission: ensure our systems are reliable, scalable, and resilient.
Responsibilities will include
Day-to-day scope for the Site Reliability Engineer - Canada Wide - Remote as described in the posting:
- Implementing the improvements to the reliability, fault tolerance, scalability, and performance of our infrastructure
- Managing incidents using your technical know-how to involve the appropriate teams and automate away manual practices
- Providing support to our critical services by responding to automated alerts through our on-call rotation
- Define and maintain SLIs, SLOs,SLA, and error budgets to guide reliability decisions
- Improve observability across our systems (metrics, logs, tracing) to reduce time to detection and resolution
- Make production issues easier to detect, troubleshoot, and resolve
- Improving monitoring, alerting, dashboards, tracing and runbooks for critical services
- Leading postmortems and follow-up actions to reduce repeat incidents
Who you are
Experience and skills the team lists as required:
- You have experience designing and operating scalable, reliable systems in AWS or a similar cloud environment
- You have handled on-call shifts for critical systems
- You are experienced with chaos engineering (i.e. Gremlin)
- You are able to dive in and debug live production systems
- You enjoy working in a growing system, and writing and deploying code without any downtime
- You have experience scripting and/or development (i.e. Linux Shell, Python, Javascript, Java)
- You are a self-starter, taking initiative in an ambiguous space preferably within a start-up environment
At Newton, we celebrate our inclusive work environment and welcome members of all backgrounds and perspectives to apply. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations and will work with you to meet your needs.