Site Reliability Engineer

Shopify

We are not here to play zero-sum games. Shopify Engineering is focused on building the best product for our Merchants. You will enable entrepreneurship and create new value for the world.

We’re looking for experienced and curious SREs and software engineers to help build the future of commerce.

• Our engineering culture is deeply collaborative, truth-seeking, candid, and merchant obsessed
• Our success hinges on our ability to build and scale the platform that powers commerce for millions of merchants. And do it in a robust and performant way.
• We believe that a great engineer can apply and hone their craft across multiple domains. We give them opportunities to learn new technologies and tools, and provide support and mentorship along the way.
• Shopify engineers contribute to the entire commerce “stack.” Think: delivering merchant and buyer-facing applications, creating complex financial solutions, improving open source communities, building internal tools to improve developer experience, and more.
• If you care deeply about what you do, and you’re committed to the relentless pursuit of developing and mastering your craft, Shopify Engineering might be for you.

The Site Reliability Team

• Help Shopify run its planet scale systems by enabling our engineering teams to create resilient systems.
• Build and improve tools to keep our platform resilient and performant.
• Ensure we never fail for the same reason twice.
• Go on-call and respond to automated alerts and execute playbooks.
• Directly impact production systems underpinning commerce for millions of merchants, who generate revenue for their livelihood, their families, and their employees, through the businesses they’ve built on our platform.
• Identify gaps in our processes and build or improve tools to support incident management.
• Develop production tooling and services to improve our platform’s resilience.
• Clean up the noise in our signals, ensuring we can get an understanding of our platform and more efficiently debug problems.

Craft has always been the heart of Shopify. We’re a company, founded by crafters, focused on a mission to make commerce better for everyone. This is why we want careers at Shopify to reflect the incredible journey of getting better at your craft and applying it to push our mission forward.

Still interested? Great! To match you with the SRE role, we’ll take the time to get to know you and the skills you bring to the table. If you’re applying to a specific role, we’ll respond within 10 business days. If we don’t have an immediate opening, don’t worry! We’ll give you an update and keep you in mind for future roles. Just do us a favour and try not to submit more than one or two applications. Only submit additional applications if you really match the criteria for multiple roles.

At Shopify, we pride ourselves on moving quickly—not just in shipping, but in our hiring process as well. If you're ready to apply, please be prepared to interview with us within the week. Our goal is to complete the entire interview loop within 30 days. You will be expected to complete a live pair programming session, come prepared with your own IDE.

This role requires on-call work

Shopify: https://www.shopify.com

About the discipline Engineering. It’s our DNA.

Engineering isn't a department at Shopify. It's our DNA. The engineers who thrive here care about the code, the system, and the merchants relying on both. They want hard problems and uncomfortable growth. They find solutions without waiting for permission. They ship weekly. They want commerce to work better for everyone. So does our founder, Tobi, who still codes and still shapes where this thing is going.

They're open source nerds. They pair program because two brains write better code than one. New tools, new models, new approaches. They experiment constantly. Most of what's standard here started as someone hacking on something.

They use AI like a keyboard, reflexively and everywhere, to clear the mundane and make room for thinking. And they work in the open. The fastest way to learn here is to watch someone better than you do the work. If that sounds like you, come build with us.

Infrastructure engineering

Infrastructure Engineers at Shopify build and maintain the systems that handle millions of requests per second and billions of dollars in transactions. At that scale, performance gains matter and weak assumptions surface quickly. Your systems power the experience for millions of entrepreneurs and buyers every minute of every day, including peak events like Black Friday.

Engineers at Shopify spend the majority of their time actually writing code to build and improve infrastructure. You’ll solve problems that don’t exist anywhere else, with challenges that push what’s possible. If that lights you up, come build with us.

Growth and rewards Mastery-matched compensation. Explore rewards

Mastery

At Shopify, getting better at your craft and increasing your impact is how you grow. Twice a year, we assess both in our Mastery cycle, Shopify’s performance review. Achieving higher Mastery is a promotion, and when you earn a promotion your total rewards grow with it. Crafter and manager are equal paths, so you can pursue excellence in the craft you’re best at.

Total Rewards

With Flex Comp, your Rewards Wallet gives you agency over your compensation mix. Adjust your mix of cash, restricted share units, and stock options (including programs like Long-Term Equity) to where it makes sense for you, and mix it up anytime as life and priorities change. Buying a house? Want more skin in the game? Just experimenting? It’s your call.

• Flex Comp program offerings vary based on location, role, and employment type. Full details are set out in our Terms & Conditions and related plan documents.

Built for real life Room for the rest of your life.

Flexible work, remote by design

A flexible vacation policy means most Shopifolk can take the vacation days they feel they need to recharge.

If a change of everyday scenery is more your jam, Destination 90 means you can work from (almost) anywhere in the world for 90 days of the year.

Your setup

Your battlestation is your home base. Request the desk, chair, and AV gear you need to get shit done.

Benefits

• You need ‘em, we’ve got ‘em. Our health and welfare benefits may include health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance depending on your country. If you’re in a country without a package, you'll receive a monthly allowance. We also offer mental health support for you and your dependents, including immediate and confidential services like counseling and coaching sessions.

• Family support

• We offer fertility benefits globally, along with paid parental leave to welcome a new family member.

• Pssst. Extraordinary technical work speaks for itself.

• Skip the resume. Show us what you’ve built instead.

• Take the alt path