Principal Site Reliability Engineer

Key Responsibilities:

• Shape SRE; Define how we think about reliability, observability, and operational excellence.
• Drive the adoption of SRE principles across the organization while building the systems and processes that make those principles measurable – think SLIs, SLOs and error budgets.
• Scale Through Automation; Champion architectural improvements that enhance both system reliability and deployment velocity.
• Provide consultation on system architecture, building reusable platforms and frameworks, planning capacity needs, and conducting production readiness reviews to ensure services launch and operate successfully.
• Drive Technical Excellence; Engage in and improve the lifecycle of microservices, from inception through deployment, operation, observability, and continuous refinement.
• Lead Through Influence; Partner with engineering and product leadership to embed reliability into our product development lifecycle.
• Conduct blameless postmortems and drive systemic improvements in incident management.
• Mentor engineers across the organisation on SRE practices, helping teams take ownership of their service reliability.

Skills and Experience:

• Essential Experience in designing, analysing, and troubleshooting distributed systems or micro-services architectures.
• Established expertise in observability and incident management.
• Proven experience in driving organizational Change.
• Excellent communication skills, with a systematic problem-solving approach.
• Desirable Experience working with production workloads in AWS.
• Experience working in financial services or similarly regulated environments.
• Interest in blockchain based technologies and/or ‘decentralised finance.
• Master’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering.

Why Copper?

• At Copper, we keep innovation, openness, and curiosity at the centre of everything we do.
• Here, bold ideas get the spotlight, learning is constant, and diversity shapes our team from the ground up.
• Jump into a fast-moving, dynamic team that loves a challenge and knows how to have fun along the way.
• Collaboration is just as important as results—you’ll be surrounded by smart, driven colleagues in London and across our APAC, Switzerland, UAE, and US offices.
• Hybrid working model – we believe in the value of bringing people together and at the same time we embrace the adaptability of flexibly working.
• Diversity and inclusion matter to us – they’re woven into Copper life.
• From employee-led groups like Women at Copper to a committee focused on community and wellbeing, you’ll have a network that supports you from day one.
• Everyone’s voice matters.
• If you’re looking to ramp up your career, or keen to do something new in your field, with us, you’ll keep moving forward.