Who We Are
Float is the world’s leading software for teams to plan their time. Launched in 2012 we’ve grown every year since and remain proudly independent self-funded and profitable. As a certified B Corporation we’re committed to making a positive contribution to our team customers the environment and the remote community. We’re a team of 50 working 100% remotely who believe in living our Best Work Life. You’ll. partner with team members globally including Australia Mexico Italy Nigeria Canada and the USA. Hear what our team has to say by browsing
our blog or reading our
Glassdoor reviews . Check out what our customers think of Float
from our G2 reviews .
We’re on a scale up journey and we’re seeking people who thrive in this stage given the autonomy and the opportunity to do the best work of their career.
Why We’re Hiring For This Role
The role of Site Reliability Engineers at Float is to increase the autonomy of the product and engineering teams by growing their capabilities to focus on solving problems. SRE makes sure our engineers get scalable infrastructure to build software on top of making sure pipelines from idea to customer run smoothly and are easily built upon and we also deal with broad areas of security around our network and defining internal security policy and practices.
Our goals for the Engineering team are to increase the pace with which they deliver improvements for our customers provide an increasingly sophisticated and reliable service from our teams and mitigate external threats as we grow.
You will help us tackle those problems by increasing reliability of our services to support larger clients joining Float and increasing the robust security systems we’ve implemented to continue protecting our growing customer base.
Chris Nash our Team Lead (SRE & QA) explains the important role you will play within our SRE team.
Watch this video .
You’ll be working asynchronously with a bright dedicated team from across the globe with a strong focus on taking complex problems and creating solutions that feel simple and intuitive for our customers.
What You’ll Be Responsible For
Early on you’ll jump right into:
- Continuing to support the regular maintenance of all the engineering systems supporting Float’s customers
- Identifying areas requiring support to scale
- Identifying areas for improving service resilience ultimately delivering the ability to be resilient within the product and engineering teams themselves
- Optimizing our monitoring and observability stack building on the knowledge to create a standard set of tools and configurations for the product and engineering teams
- Understanding Float’s SLOs in context and building out SLO patterns and procedures for product and engineering teams
Once you are settled we expect that you will jump into the following projects:
- Building a repeatable and trustworthy disaster recovery program using chaos engineering techniques
- Migrating all of our deployment configurations to a global single source of truth
- Expanding Float’s infrastructure across multiple regions to create a global network
What You’ll Need To Be Successful
We want you to love your work and believe that these skills will allow you to succeed in the role.
Applying these skills requires:
- An excellent understanding of how SRE operates as an enabling team
- A very good understanding of Service Level Objectives
- Working experience with Terraform Bash and a go-to language which ideally would be one of PHP NodeJS Python
- Experience with Kubernetes and GCP would be highly valued
As a fully remote team we’re looking for someone comfortable with asynchronous communication as the default which means you have previous remote experience and are comfortable using tools like Slack Loom and Linear to communicate as needed. Don’t worry—you will have significant deep work time since we have
very few meetings .
Why Join Us
Pay for this role is US $161475 (Level 3). Here’s a
blog post with more information on how we determine our salaries.
We’re a global
async remote company with a diverse team of people from all over the world who share a common belief in living our
best work life . We believe deeply in the idea of transparency and share our
Float Handbook publicly so potential new team members can see first hand our
perks & benefits as well as our
ways of working . If you feel like you can thrive at Float to do your best work we would love to hear from you.
Hiring Process For This Role
You’ll find a lot of useful information about our interview process and what it’s like to join our global team on the
Float careers page . The hiring process for this role looks like this:
- Initial First Meet (20 min): You'll meet with Julia Fulton Talent Manager to discuss your interest in the role and review your questions about working at Float.
- Take-Home Assignment: Candidates that move forward will be invited to complete a technical assignment for the engineering team to review. This is a 4-hour assignment. Candidates will receive high-level feedback from the hiring team and those that move forward will proceed to the technical interview stage to discuss results further in more detail.
- Manager Interview (45 min) : You’ll meet with Chris Nash (Team Lead SRE & QA) and Colin Ross (Director of Engineering) to discuss more about your technical experience. This will be a great opportunity for you to ask any questions and talk about goals for the role.
- Co-Worker Interview (30 min): You’ll meet with Roberto Menezes (Senior Staff Engineer) and Bogdan Frunza (SRE) to dive deeper into your skills and experience.
- Founder Interview (30 min) : You’ll meet with Glenn Float’s CEO to get to know you and see if you have potential to be a great addition to the team.
Note: Industry research shows that women and those in traditionally underrepresented groups generally don’t apply to jobs unless they check all the boxes for the role. If you feel strongly that you have what it takes for this role but don’t check 100% of the boxes—that’s okay—we encourage you to apply anyway and highlight what you can bring to the table.
