Systems Engineer (DevOps/SRE)
Getklar|Posted 20 days ago
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In Short: You will treat infrastructure as software, building the automated platforms and resilient systems that allow Klar to scale 100x without breaking our "Foundation of Trust."
✅ About Klar
We are on a mission to banish spreadsheets from eCommerce and build the "Data Operating System" for growing brands. To understand who we are, where we come from, and why our guiding principle is "Do Work You Are Proud Of," please read our full intro: 👉 About Klar
For a deeper look at our culture and how we operate, check out: 👉 Work at Klar
🤝 About The Position
At Klar, we don't view Operations as a support function; we view it as a product engineering discipline. You will be a key guardian of our "Foundation of Trust," ensuring reliability, security, and speed are baked into the platform.
You won't just manage servers; you will build the "paved road" for our product teams. Your goal is to deliver "Sustainable Speed"—removing friction from the development lifecycle through automation so that shipping code is boring, safe, and fast. You will apply a broad engineering mindset to solve complex problems across the entire lifecycle of the application.
Your Responsibilities:
- Build Platforms, Not Just Scripts: You design and implement the foundational libraries and infrastructure abstractions that enable other teams to ship faster and safer.
- Architect for the Future: You act as a "Scalability Advocate," ensuring that the systems we build today can handle 10x or 100x the load tomorrow without needing a rewrite.
- Treat Infrastructure as Code: You reject manual procedures. You automate everything using Terraform and Kubernetes operators, ensuring our environment is reproducible and stable.
- Drive Systemic Reliability: You "own the incident" when things break, but more importantly, you drive systemic changes (like better observability or new CI/CD patterns) to prevent entire classes of failure.
- Collaborate on Architecture: You work alongside product developers from day one, helping them architect cloud-native applications that are secure and observable by default.
💪 About You
- The Mindset: You are a "Broad Generalist" with a software mindset. You embrace "Ownership & Trust," meaning you don't just find problems; you fix them, document them, and ensure they stay fixed.
- Experience: You have a strong background in software engineering but chose to apply those skills to infrastructure. You prefer writing a tool in Go or Python to automate a task rather than writing a runbook for a manual process.
- Hard Skills:
- Kubernetes Internals: Expert-level knowledge of K8s, operators, and the ecosystem (Helm, Kustomize).
- IaC: Extensive experience with Terraform or similar tools.
- CI/CD: You know your way around GitHub Actions and GitOps principles (we use Flux CD ).
- Coding: Proficiency in Go, Python, or Rust.
- Linux: Strong understanding of Linux internals (namespaces, cgroups, systemd).
- Soft Skills: You are a "Collaborative Architect." You enjoy teaching others and "setting them up for success" by making your reasoning visible and your systems easy to use.
💻 The Klar Tech Stack
We are a 100% Open Source shop. We don't just throw money at problems; we choose our weapons wisely because we know we’ll be living with them for a long time. 👉 Klar Tech Stack
⚙️ Our Offer
From top-of-market compensation to a remote-first culture, we want to give you the freedom to succeed and the challenge to grow. 👉 Our Offer
🏃 Hiring Process
We are growing like crazy, so we aim to move fast—but we never compromise on quality. 👉 Hiring Process
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About Getklar
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About Klar
At Klar, we are building the Data Operating System for growing e-commerce companies.
Sounds pretty fancy, right? But what does that actually mean?
Over the last ten years many powerful tools have emerged that make selling online incredibly easy. There is Shopify for the shop system, Klaviyo for Email Marketing, Recharge for Subscription and many more.
But when it comes to data, most companies still use spreadsheets or basic tools like Data Studio. These take a lot of time to maintain and don't deliver any real insights.
With Klar, we want to change this.
We are building a data platform that is tailored to the needs of growing e-commerce brands. Fast to set-up and easy to maintain. Yet, providing detailed insights as to what brands can do to accelerate growth and increase profitability.
We work with over 1.000 leading eCom brands like Sunday Natural, Loop Earplugs, Holy, Maniko, Armed Angels and hundreds more use Klar to make better decision every day.
On top of that we have built the eCom Unity, Europes largest community for eCom operators where brands can connect to exchange knowledge and learnings.
Since we are growing like crazy, we’re looking for smart, hungry and humble people to join us on this ride.
Who We Are
Hi 👋
Nice to meet you. We are Frank, Cillier & Max.
We met around 10 years ago while working together in Cape Town and have been working at various start-ups together since. Cillier & Frank leading the tech teams while Max lead marketing.
Together, we have seen most, if not all, of start-up life. The good, the bad and the ugly 🤠
Before we even started to think about what we want to build, we spend many evenings talking about what kind of company we want to build. We established a set of principles that we value above anything else. More on those below 👇
Also, after having worked most of the last 10 years in e-commerce companies, we deeply care and empathise with the pain and struggles of our customers.
Starting a DTC business has never been easier. Making it successful has never been harder.
We want Klar to bring clarity. And helps brands to understand how they can grow faster and more sustainable.
What We Care About
Having been in this game together for the last 10 years, we know each other and what we want extremely well.
One guiding principles stands for us above everything else
Do Work You Can Be Proud Of
Unfortunately, too many times, things get sacrificed for short-term results. That might be necessary at times, but do it too often and it becomes the standard. And things start to derail from there...
To make this principle a reality, a few things are necessary.
We certainly know that this is not what everyone is looking for. But we are totally ok with that.
🏄 Ownership & Trust
We want to work with adults. That doesn't describe age, but attitude. If you say you'll do something. You do it. Simple.
We trust you to do what is right. And you trust us to do the same.
🧠 Work With The Best
To build something remarkable, you not only need to know your tools, but also how to you use them effectively, efficiently and wisely. And never shy away from learning something new.
We love working on hard problems. We feed off each other knowledge and experience and always want to get better. Each of us individually and together as a whole we strive for greatness.
💙 Empathy & Candor
Pretty much every problem ever can be traced back to people not talking to each other. If there is something you don't like, say it. But also make a real effort to understand where the other person is coming from.
If you find yourself nodding in agreement after reading this page, then we would love to talk to you!
Just send an email to max@getklar.com or message me on LinkedIn.
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