Minimal

Minimal is growing fast and we want to work with genuinely awesome folks. We'd love to hear about your experience and why you think you'd be a good fit for our team. Even if we don't have an opportunity now, we may soon. About Us We’re building a secure, reproducible foundation for software everywhere, that makes building, maintaining, and releasing software predictable and effortless for everyone. We’re looking to carefully grow our team with people that are excited about building a workflow that feels lightyears ahead of everything else. Our stack spans Rust (CLI tooling), TypeScript (Cloud frontend), and Go (backend services), all running on GCP. If you're energized by the idea of working across boundaries, owning problems end-to-end, and building something meaningful from the ground up, we want to chat. What we're looking for - Comfort with ambiguity, and able to take loosely defined problems and figure out what needs to happen - A dynamic team player and seek to make valuable contributions wherever it is most-needed at any given time - You follow through, communicate proactively, and care about the outcome - You share credit, ask for help when you need it, and make the people around you better - Experience at an early-stage startup What we offer - Competitive base compensation - Equity stake in the company - Health, dental, vision and life insurance plans - Retirement plans with employer matching - Remote-first work environment - Flexible PTO with a minimum suggested utilization of 3 weeks Candidate location We are open to candidates who are authorized to work in Canada or the USA. We do not offer Visa Sponsorship at this time. We have a strong preference for candidates who are in PST, and will consider candidates within +/-2 hours of PST who are strongly aligned to the role and our mission. Equal opportunity Minimal is an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

• Build polished, high performance interfaces that communicate core values • Work directly with founders and product team to ship a fast, elegant and secure UI • Own features end to end with minimal guidance / advisory • Collaborate with product designers from prototype to production

• Build and maintain features across our CLI, backend, and frontend • Take ownership of projects from idea through deployment and beyond • Collaborate closely with teammates including product management, sharing context, asking questions, and giving thoughtful feedback • Help establish engineering practices that scale as we grow • Contribute to a culture where people feel supported, heard, and excited about the work

This description is a summary of our understanding of the job description. Click on 'Apply' button to find out more. Role Description As our first SRE you will have a hands-on role: - Managing our cloud services on GCP and CloudFlare - Ensuring we meet our SLOs - Managing monitoring and logging systems - Maintaining a strong security posture - Managing our CI/CD systems - Managing incident response and on-call - Automating all-the-things - Helping manage our Google Workspace and other third-party SaaS systems What you'll do: - Develop and maintain automated pipelines for building, testing, and deploying code. - Provision, manage, and scale infrastructure on platforms like GCP and CloudFlare. - Third-party SaaS management - Implement observability tools to monitor system health, performance, and set up alerts. - Managing all incident responses. Troubleshoot, resolve, and conduct root cause analysis for production issues. Writing processes and documentation for incident response that will scale as we grow. - Craft and manage a robust on-call system that will scale as the company grows - Script and build tools to automate operational tasks - Implement security best practices across infrastructure and applications. - Create and maintain clear documentation for processes and systems. - Work closely with development teams to optimize designs, ensure smooth releases and reliable applications. Qualifications - 5+ years of experience in a similar role - Experience with GCP - Proficiency in Python, Bash, or Shell scripting. - Experience with CI/CD tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions. - Experience with Docker and Kubernetes. - You champion Infrastructure as Code and have experience with Terraform and Ansible. - Strong working knowledge of Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack. - Strong understanding of OSes (Linux), networking, and distributed systems. Nice to have - Experience at an early-stage startup - Background in security, developer tooling, open source and package management Benefits - Competitive base compensation - Equity stake in the company - Health, dental, vision and life insurance plans - Retirement plans with employer matching - Remote-first work environment - Flexible PTO with a minimum suggested utilization of 3 weeks Pay range See our approximate salary ranges below that represent the anticipated low and high end of the salary for this position. Actual salaries will vary and are based on a multitude of non-discriminatory factors including final role leveling decisions, a candidate’s relevant work experiences/skills, and geographic location. Salary is one component of our total compensation package. - US Range: $160,000 - $200,000 USD - Canadian Range: $150,000 - $190,000 CAD Candidate location We are open to candidates who are authorized to work in Canada or the USA for this role. We do not offer Visa Sponsorship at this time. We have a strong preference for candidates who are in PST, and will consider candidates within +/-2 hours of PST who are strongly aligned to the role and our mission. Equal opportunity Minimal is an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.