Senior Software Engineer II - SRE

Careem is building the Everything App for the greater Middle East, making it easier than ever to move around, order food and groceries, manage payments, and more. Careem is led by a powerful purpose to simplify and improve the lives of people and build an awesome organisation that inspires. Since 2012, Careem has created earnings for over 2.5 million Captains, simplified the lives of over 70 million customers, and built a platform for the region’s best talent to thrive and for entrepreneurs to scale their businesses. Careem operates in over 70 cities across 10 countries, from Morocco to Pakistan.

What you'll do

• Design, build and operate large scale infrastructure including container platforms, release pipelines and internal tooling.
• Implement and improve our infrastructure and observability capabilities that results in improving our service reliability and operational insights.
• Create automation and tooling to streamline infrastructure operations and developer workflows.
• Partner with engineering and product teams to ensure our systems meet standards for availability, security and observability.
• Write and review high quality, performant and reliable code.
• Lead and mentor team members through code reviews, design discussions, while championing a culture of continuous improvement.
• Continuously improve team processes through agile practices and engineering excellence.

What you’ll need

• 6+ years of professional software development experience, with at least 3 years in systems or platform engineering roles.
• Expertise in one or more modern programming languages such as Golang or Python (Mandatory)
• Solid understanding of software engineering best practices, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
• Proven experience designing and operating distributed systems and infrastructure in cloud environments.
• Strong understanding of production operations, including metrics, safe deployments and incident response.
• Experience in operating Linux based systems, with proven understanding of its internals.
• Solid grasp of Linux systems and container orchestration at scale.
• A passion for enabling engineering teams through scalable and reliable infrastructure.
• Strong communication skills and a track record of cross-functional collaboration.

Preferred qualifications

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  Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or other related technical field.
• Experience with Golang and AWS.
• Experience working in a high-paced start-up environment.

What we’ll provide you

We offer colleagues the opportunity to drive impact in the region while they learn and grow. As a full time Careem colleague, you will be able to:

• Work and learn from great minds by joining a community of inspiring colleagues.
• Put your passion to work in a purposeful organisation dedicated to creating impact in a region with a lot of untapped potential.
• Explore new opportunities to learn and grow every day.
• Work 4 days a week in office & 1 day from home, and remotely from any country in the world for 30 days a year with unlimited vacation days per year. (If you are in an individual contributor role in tech, you will have 2 office days a week and 3 to work from home.)
• Access to healthcare benefits and fitness reimbursements for health activities including gym, health club, and training classes.