Qualifications

• Has a minimum of 5 years of experience managing live production SaaS environments with high load.
• Is experienced in working on a centralized reliability or SRE team configuration.
• Hands-on experience with cloud-native infrastructure solutions such as container orchestration and service discovery in Kubernetes-based environments.
• Background in software development or engineering roles with a focus on reliability.
• Is knowledgeable on all things Reliability and how to scale those solutions across the engineering organization.
• Is knowledgeable of AWS —or has deep expertise in Azure or GCP and is willing to learn AWS quickly.
• Can deliver maintainable and high-quality code in Go or other languages.
• Can communicate well and collaborate effectively, empathetically, and proactively on a tightly integrated team.
• Embodies our EAGER values—is ethical, adaptable, gritty, empathetic, and remarkable.
• Is inspired by our MOVE principles, which are the blueprint for how things get done at Grammarly: move fast and learn faster, obsess about creating customer value, value impact over activity, and embrace healthy disagreement rooted in trust.

In this role, you will:

• Use modern infrastructure management tools and services like AWS to build a massively scalable platform for Grammarly’s services.
• Be an ambassador for Operational Excellence - building and continually improving incident management tooling and processes.
• Implement proactive reliability improvements to reduce manual intervention and increase reliability. This includes automated deployment improvements, canary analysis, self-healing mechanisms, and autoscaling.
• Manage cloud-native infrastructure solutions, such as cross-service infrastructure, Kubernetes clusters and deployments, auto-scaling tool sets, and service discovery.
• Build solutions and frameworks to spin up, test, deploy, and observe Grammarly’s service reliability.
• Participate in on-call incident response and escalation procedures.

Support for you, professionally and personally

• Professional growth: We believe that autonomy and trust are key to empowering our team members to do their best, most innovative work in a way that aligns with their interests, talents, and well-being. We also support professional development and advancement with training, coaching, and regular feedback.
• A connected team: Grammarly builds a product that helps people connect, and we apply this mindset to our own team. Our remote-first hybrid model enables a highly collaborative culture supported by our EAGER (ethical, adaptable, gritty, empathetic, and remarkable) values. We work to foster belonging among team members in a variety of ways. This includes our employee resource groups, Grammarly Circles, which promote connection among those with shared identities including BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ team members, women, and parents. We also celebrate our colleagues and accomplishments with global, local, and team-specific programs.
• Comprehensive benefits for candidates based in Germany: Grammarly offers all team members competitive pay along with a benefits package encompassing life care (including mental health care and risk benefits) and ample and defined time off. We also offer support to set up a home office, wellness and pet care stipends, learning and development opportunities, and more.