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Senior Software Engineer - Site Reliability

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Location
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Posted
1 month ago
Department
Windscribe
What they actually want (must-haves)
  • Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or similar
  • 5+ years of professional software development in one or more general-purpose languages (Go preferred; Python, Rust, C/C++ also acceptable)
  • Experience building automation tools or services that eliminated operational work
  • Experience designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting distributed systems in production
  • Solid Linux fundamentals, containers, and infrastructure as code (Terraform, Ansible, or equivalents)
  • Experience with observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, or equivalents)
Nice to have
  • Deep DNS knowledge (BIND / PowerDNS / Unbound, record types, resolution paths, DNSSEC)
  • Routing experience: unicast, anycast, BGP
  • Linux networking depth: iptables / nftables, eBPF, performance tuning
  • VPN protocols (OpenVPN / WireGuard / IKEv2)
  • Experience with bare metal fleets, hypervisors, or networking hardware (JunOS / VyOS)
What the job really is

As a Senior Software Engineer in Site Reliability at Windscribe, you will primarily focus on writing software to automate operational tasks and improve the efficiency of services. Your responsibilities include designing, testing, and shipping software, defining service level objectives (SLOs), debugging production issues, and participating in incident response. You will also have the opportunity to learn about the company's technology stack, including DNS and VPN protocols.

Benefits
  • 140K - 180K CAD
  • Stock options
Things to weigh
  • No specific mention of remote work flexibility beyond the #LI-Remote tag
  • Role focuses heavily on software engineering rather than operational tasks, which may not suit those with a systems administration background
  • Expectations for candidates to have built automation tools personally, rather than just using existing systems
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