SRE Engineer
Posted:
1/14/2026, 1:53:35 AM
Location(s):
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom β
England, United Kingdom
Experience Level(s):
Senior
Field(s):
DevOps & Infrastructure β
Software Engineering
β‘οΈ Why Altium?
Altium is transforming the way electronics are designed and built. From startups to worldβs technology giants, our digital platforms give more power to PCB designers, supply chain, and manufacturing, letting them collaborate as never before.
- Constant innovation has created a transformative technology, unique in its space
- More than 30,000 companies and 100,000 electronics engineers worldwide use Altium
- We are growing, debt-free, and financially strong, with the resources to become #1 in the EDA industry
π’ Form of work: We work in the office 5 days a week, yet you must be located close to our office in Cambridge π’
Role Overview:
Site Reliability Engineer ensuring the reliability, availability, and performance of large-scale software systems through a blend of software engineering and systems administration. Key responsibilities involve automating operational tasks, improving observability, and contributing to incident management, while also collaborating with development and technology teams to build more reliable and scalable applications.β―
Join Altium as a Site Reliability Engineer to ensure the reliability and performance of the Altium Cloud Platforms.
Key Responsibilities:
- Understanding how an Altium Cloud Platform works
- Pioneer improvements in observability, including logging, monitoring, and application performance management (APM), ensuring system reliability and proactive issue detection.
- Develop and implement reliability frameworks and patterns that standardize and elevate the resilience of our SaaS products across multiple regions and environments.
- Cultivate a shared responsibility model where the SRE team collaborates with and educates engineering teams on reliability best practices.
- Contribute to incident response and management, ensuring rapid resolution, clear stakeholder communication, and post-incident analysis for continuous improvement.
- Participate in system design consulting, platform management, infrastructure upgrades and capacity planning.
- Partner closely with engineering and development teams to enhance product stability, observability, and manageability through best practices in reliability engineering.
- Partner closely with DevOps/Operations, drive automation initiatives, promote Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and streamline deployment processes to improve operational efficiency and scalability.
- Champion Service-Oriented Organization (SOO) principles to ensure accountability and clarity in service ownership.
Who you are and what youβll need for this position:
- 5+ years in SRE, DevOps or related role in a large-scale environment
- Software development experience (ideally working with and as a .NET developer)
- Strong understanding of SDLC, microservice and HA architecture
- Observability - NewRelic, ELK, Grafana, PagerDuty, OTEL or similar
- Experience with Kubernetes clusters in production setting, AWS, IOC
- Experience with operational tasks
- Knowledge of CI-CD tooling Jenkins, Gitlab, GitHub, ArgoCD or similar
- Knowledge of IaaC Terraform, Ansible
- Basic knowledge of networking fundamentals
- Experience with relational databases (mysql, postgres) as a plus
Benefits:
π₯ Private health insurance including dental coverage
π Pension scheme with company match up to 9%
π§ nilo.health, mental health and wellbeing support
π Remote working abroad program
π Professional development support and resources
π₯³ Employee referral program
π 28 days' holiday + public holidays and special leave
π‘ Flexible working arrangements available based on role and location
πΆ Enhanced family and special leave
πͺ Corporate membership rates with national gyms
π₯ͺ Free lunch, snacks, and drinks in the office
π Electric car charging stations, free office parking, bicycle, and scooter storage
π Also, we would like you to know
We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.
π‘ Learn more about why a career at Altium is an opportunity like no other: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAYCOLpPLPE
βοΈ Altium Benefits: https://careers.altium.com/#s-benefits
π Are you already an Altium employee? Please apply directly through our internal Greenhouse job board. If you have questions, please contact HR.
Altium
Website: https://altium.com/
Headquarter Location: La Jolla, California, United States
Employee Count: 501-1000
Year Founded: 1985
IPO Status: Public
Last Funding Type: Post-IPO Equity
Industries: Electronic Design Automation (EDA) β Electronics β Embedded Software β Software β Software Engineering