As the sole Site Reliability Engineer, you will own the infrastructure and observability for a platform experiencing exponential growth. You will manage a sophisticated AWS/Pulumi stack, optimizing database performance for billion-row datasets and ensuring high availability for real-time chat and streaming features. This is a high-impact role providing full platform autonomy.
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Site Reliability Engineer at Equals
Own the infrastructure behind the world's largest social music network! This high-growth platform connects over a million users through real-time chat and streaming, and they need a sole SRE to take full command of their AWS and Pulumi-based stack. With a £90k+ base and a massive £100k+ equity package, this is a rare opportunity to move into a high-leverage role where you manage everything from PostgreSQL 17 performance to global data pipelines. If you thrive on autonomy and want to scale a product seeing exponential monthly growth, this London-based role is your next big career move.
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Location
London, United Kingdom
Compensation
£90k + + £100k + Equity
Company
EQUALS
Role overview
Equals is the world's largest social music network with over a million users, growing exponentially month to month. We connect people through the music they love - fans discover new people, collect tracks, and connect in artist chatrooms. Our platform serves users across the world with real-time chat, music streaming, and a recommendation engine that matches people by musical taste.
What you will do
- Manage and evolve AWS infrastructure using Pulumi (TypeScript), overseeing ECS/Fargate, RDS PostgreSQL 17, and ElastiCache Redis clusters at scale.
- Optimize data pipelines and warehouse performance, handling massive music catalog ingestions of over 1 billion rows and managing Airbyte and RudderStack integrations.
- Lead incident response and observability, utilizing Datadog APM to tune alerting, reduce noise, and maintain 24/7 system health for a global user base.
Who this is a fit for
- Proven experience managing AWS environments (ECS, RDS, S3) using Infrastructure-as-Code tools like Pulumi, Terraform, or AWS CDK.
- Deep technical expertise in PostgreSQL performance tuning, indexing strategies, and Redis scaling for high-concurrency applications and message queues.
- Demonstrated ability to act as a sole infrastructure owner, comfortably managing CI/CD pipelines, production failovers, and complex cloud networking via Cloudflare.
Why this role is remarkable
- Take full ownership of the entire infrastructure stack for the world's largest social music network, moving beyond feature work to core platform engineering.
- Scale a high-traffic consumer product serving over a million users with real-time requirements, including chatrooms, music streaming, and complex recommendation engines.
- Enjoy significant financial upside with a generous £100k+ equity package and a competitive £90k+ base salary in a high-growth environment.
How Jack & Jill work together
I get to know what you’re great at, then find roles you’d never find yourself.Ok, I'll go first. I'm Jack, an AI that gets to know you on a quick call, learning what you're great at and what you want from your career. Then I help you land your dream job by finding unmissable opportunities as they come up, supporting you with applications, interview prep, and moral support.
I recruit from Jack’s network and make the intro when I spot a great match.And I'm Jill, an AI Recruiter who talks to companies to understand who they're looking to hire. Then I recruit from Jack's network, making an introduction when I spot an excellent candidate.
Jack gets to know what you're great at and what you want next, then searches 15 million jobs daily and helps you discover roles at companies like this.
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What happens next?
Jack’s an AI agent for job searching and career coaching. He works for you.
Jill is the AI recruiter working for the company. She recruits from Jack’s network.
If your profile’s a match and EQUALS wants to meet, Jill will make the intro. In the meantime, Jack will send you excellent alternatives.