Careem is building the Everything App to simplify everyday life across the Middle East by offering seamless transportation, food and grocery delivery, payment management, and more. Since 2012, the company has empowered over 2.5 million Captains to earn income and served more than 70 million customers. Operating in over 70 cities across 10 countries, Careem fosters regional talent and entrepreneurship while advancing cloud-native technologies and persistent storage solutions to scale its platform and improve service reliability for millions of users.
Key Responsibilities
As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Careem, you will be responsible for building and maintaining Kafka clusters and their ecosystems to ensure service resilience, reliability, and scalability. You will accelerate deployment processes and enhance products used daily by millions. Your role includes contributing from the design phase through development and operation of storage clusters on AWS, as well as developing support tools and technical processes that simplify engineering workflows across multiple services. Identifying opportunities to automate and scale systems without compromising security and reliability will be a key focus. Additionally, you will participate in on-call rotations and help improve incident response and management practices.
Required Qualifications
Candidates must have at least five years of experience in developing, operating, and troubleshooting storage clusters or other highly available systems at scale. Proven expertise in running Kafka on Kubernetes is essential. Proficiency in one or more programming languages such as Go, Python, Java, Groovy, Scala, or Ruby is required. Strong knowledge of cloud infrastructure, preferably AWS, and infrastructure automation using Infrastructure as Code is necessary. A solid background in Unix or Linux, including networking and scripting skills, is expected. Experience with incident response or incident management is considered a plus.
Preferred Qualifications and Benefits
Experience in automation areas such as monitoring, continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD), and security will be advantageous. Careem offers a dynamic work environment that encourages learning and growth alongside talented colleagues. The company supports a flexible work schedule, including four days per week in the office and one day remote, with the option to work remotely from any country for up to 30 days annually. Individual contributor roles in technology follow a hybrid schedule of two office days and three remote days per week. Additional benefits include healthcare coverage and fitness reimbursements for activities such as gym memberships, health clubs, and training classes. Careem promotes an inclusive culture committed to equal employment opportunity and diversity initiatives, ensuring a supportive workplace for all employees.
Joining Careem means becoming part of a purposeful organization dedicated to making a meaningful impact in a region full of potential, while continuously exploring new opportunities for professional development and innovation.
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