Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Forto
Seniority
Senior
Model
In-Office
Sector
Salary
Undisclosed
Contract
Full-Time
The Site Reliability Engineering team at Forto is responsible for reliability and developer experience. We enable our development teams to write complex business logic by providing best-in-class tooling and infrastructure. This is a high-ownership role on a lean team that directly shapes how 70+ engineers build and ship software.
What you'll do
- Build out our runtime platform as a self-service product that enables our engineering teams to write code, run workloads, and drive engineering culture forward.
- Bring software development skills and practices into platform engineering, such as code quality, domain-driven design, and test-driven development.
- Own the developer portal and internal platform roadmap, including leading this year's overhaul of our CI/CD pipelines in collaboration with all product teams.
- Ensure site reliability by building observability solutions, deployment, and disaster recovery capabilities.
- Own reliability standards end-to-end through SLOs and error budgets — shaping how teams balance velocity and risk.
- Drive infrastructure cost optimisation across Kubernetes, MongoDB, and Datadog at scale.
- Improve our security posture through tooling, compliance work, and partnership with security stakeholders.
- Work closely with the entire Engineering function as a steward of platform architecture — embracing new technologies and cleaning up old ones.
What you'll need
- 5+ years in backend or infrastructure engineering, with at least 2 years in an SRE or platform engineering role.
- Hands-on experience with GCP/AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, and Helm in a production environment.
- Strong software development background — building frameworks, internal tooling, and infrastructure.
- Experience with an observability platform (Datadog or equivalent) at scale — not just dashboards, but alerting strategy, cost management, and SLO instrumentation.
- Experience defining and operating SLOs and error budgets as a reliability mechanism, not just as metrics.
- Solid understanding of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and a GitOps-first mindset.
- Proven track record designing, developing, and troubleshooting complex distributed systems.

