Site Reliability Engineer | Luno | Remote (South Africa)
Posted 2025-09-08
Remote, USA
Full Time
Immediate Start
<h3 class=" text-white font-semibold text-lg mb-2"><strong class=" font-semibold">About us:</strong></h3>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">Luno is the crypto investment app you can rely on, enabling you to buy, store and explore crypto securely. We’re committed to putting the power of cryptocurrency in everyone’s hands sensibly and responsibly.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">Since 2013, we’ve helped millions of people around the world invest safely in crypto. We do this by cutting through the hype and supporting customers at every step of the way. All products and cryptocurrencies on our platform must first meet stringent legal, risk and technical security standards.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">Transparency is key for us. Luno stores all crypto on a 1:1 basis and we have rigorous processes in place so you can be confident your investment is secure. We’re available in more than 40 countries around the world and we work closely with respective regulators in all of these markets to be fully compliant, as we believe this is the best way to help everyone, everywhere, invest safely.</p>
<h3 class=" text-white font-semibold text-lg mb-2"><strong class=" font-semibold">Your mission will involve:</strong></h3>
<ul class=" text-base sm:text-lg marker:text-color list-inside list-disc text-gray-500 list-disc list-outside pl-3 mb-6">
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Being part of the integral foundation of the Luno platform, you will get to apply your knowledge and experience to the various SRE projects at Luno.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Building and scaling infrastructure, version control systems and CI/CD processes on the Luno platform by applying and enforcing Infrastructure as Code, which is accessed by over 8 million customers, in nearly 50 countries through various phases of the crypto trading lifecycle.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Being security first when building scalable infrastructure</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Preparing on being scalable for the next crypto bull run</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Enabling other teams to scale by provisioning infrastructure that scales</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Being compliant with various security and legal/compliance audits that we apply for and encounter in the crypto industry</span></li>
</ul>
<h3 class=" text-white font-semibold text-lg mb-2"><strong class=" font-semibold">A little about you?</strong></h3>
<ul class=" text-base sm:text-lg marker:text-color list-inside list-disc text-gray-500 list-disc list-outside pl-3 mb-6">
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Prior experience in a software engineering / DevOps / Site Reliability / Platform engineering role.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Experience with setting up, deploying, scaling, and managing containerised environments using Kubernetes in production</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Experience in managing large infrastructure projects using Terraform</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Experienced with setting up, deploying, and managing various AWS services</span></li>
</ul>
<h3 class=" text-white font-semibold text-lg mb-2"><strong class=" font-semibold">What stack will you be working on:</strong></h3>
<ul class=" text-base sm:text-lg marker:text-color list-inside list-disc text-gray-500 list-disc list-outside pl-3 mb-6">
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Terraform – IaC</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Kubernetes – Orchestration</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">AWS – Infrastructure</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">GitLab – CI/CD</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Prometheus, Thanos, Grafana – Observability</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Hashicorp Vault – Secrets</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Aurora MySQL – Databases</span></li>
</ul>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><em>Don’t be put off if you don’t tick all of the boxes – they’re a guide based on what we’d love to see but we appreciate that excellent candidates have diverse backgrounds. We value attitude above aptitude. With the right mindset, you can empower yourself.</em></p>
<h3 class=" text-white font-semibold text-lg mb-2"><strong class=" font-semibold">Life at Luno:</strong></h3>
<ul class=" text-base sm:text-lg marker:text-color list-inside list-disc text-gray-500 list-disc list-outside pl-3 mb-6">
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Remote but reachable work policy gives you the freedom to choose between working from home or the office.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Plus the option to buy and sell up to 5 days leave</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Improve body and mind, with excellent private medical insurance</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Access to Learnably and our additional learning platforms for your personal and professional development</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">6 months primary care-giver leave</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Paw-ternity leave for your furry friend</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Annual Inspiration Day in addition to your annual leave which increases based on your length of service!</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">A collaborative, friendly work community, with regular social events and virtual cooking, dancing, drawing and house planting classes hosted by our Lunauts</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Free lunch and snacks</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">0 fees up to a certain amount with Luno from the day you start.*</span></li>
</ul>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><em>*Offer only available on Luno Instant Buy, not Luno Exchange</em></p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><em>We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.</em></p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><em>#LI-DNI</em></p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">Luno is the crypto investment app you can rely on, enabling you to buy, store and explore crypto securely. We’re committed to putting the power of cryptocurrency in everyone’s hands sensibly and responsibly.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">Since 2013, we’ve helped millions of people around the world invest safely in crypto. We do this by cutting through the hype and supporting customers at every step of the way. All products and cryptocurrencies on our platform must first meet stringent legal, risk and technical security standards.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">Transparency is key for us. Luno stores all crypto on a 1:1 basis and we have rigorous processes in place so you can be confident your investment is secure. We’re available in more than 40 countries around the world and we work closely with respective regulators in all of these markets to be fully compliant, as we believe this is the best way to help everyone, everywhere, invest safely.</p>
<h3 class=" text-white font-semibold text-lg mb-2"><strong class=" font-semibold">Your mission will involve:</strong></h3>
<ul class=" text-base sm:text-lg marker:text-color list-inside list-disc text-gray-500 list-disc list-outside pl-3 mb-6">
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Being part of the integral foundation of the Luno platform, you will get to apply your knowledge and experience to the various SRE projects at Luno.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Building and scaling infrastructure, version control systems and CI/CD processes on the Luno platform by applying and enforcing Infrastructure as Code, which is accessed by over 8 million customers, in nearly 50 countries through various phases of the crypto trading lifecycle.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Being security first when building scalable infrastructure</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Preparing on being scalable for the next crypto bull run</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Enabling other teams to scale by provisioning infrastructure that scales</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Being compliant with various security and legal/compliance audits that we apply for and encounter in the crypto industry</span></li>
</ul>
<h3 class=" text-white font-semibold text-lg mb-2"><strong class=" font-semibold">A little about you?</strong></h3>
<ul class=" text-base sm:text-lg marker:text-color list-inside list-disc text-gray-500 list-disc list-outside pl-3 mb-6">
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Prior experience in a software engineering / DevOps / Site Reliability / Platform engineering role.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Experience with setting up, deploying, scaling, and managing containerised environments using Kubernetes in production</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Experience in managing large infrastructure projects using Terraform</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Experienced with setting up, deploying, and managing various AWS services</span></li>
</ul>
<h3 class=" text-white font-semibold text-lg mb-2"><strong class=" font-semibold">What stack will you be working on:</strong></h3>
<ul class=" text-base sm:text-lg marker:text-color list-inside list-disc text-gray-500 list-disc list-outside pl-3 mb-6">
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Terraform – IaC</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Kubernetes – Orchestration</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">AWS – Infrastructure</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">GitLab – CI/CD</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Prometheus, Thanos, Grafana – Observability</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Hashicorp Vault – Secrets</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Aurora MySQL – Databases</span></li>
</ul>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><em>Don’t be put off if you don’t tick all of the boxes – they’re a guide based on what we’d love to see but we appreciate that excellent candidates have diverse backgrounds. We value attitude above aptitude. With the right mindset, you can empower yourself.</em></p>
<h3 class=" text-white font-semibold text-lg mb-2"><strong class=" font-semibold">Life at Luno:</strong></h3>
<ul class=" text-base sm:text-lg marker:text-color list-inside list-disc text-gray-500 list-disc list-outside pl-3 mb-6">
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Remote but reachable work policy gives you the freedom to choose between working from home or the office.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Plus the option to buy and sell up to 5 days leave</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Improve body and mind, with excellent private medical insurance</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Access to Learnably and our additional learning platforms for your personal and professional development</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">6 months primary care-giver leave</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Paw-ternity leave for your furry friend</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Annual Inspiration Day in addition to your annual leave which increases based on your length of service!</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">A collaborative, friendly work community, with regular social events and virtual cooking, dancing, drawing and house planting classes hosted by our Lunauts</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Free lunch and snacks</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">0 fees up to a certain amount with Luno from the day you start.*</span></li>
</ul>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><em>*Offer only available on Luno Instant Buy, not Luno Exchange</em></p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><em>We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.</em></p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><em>#LI-DNI</em></p>