Senior Software Engineer II - SRE

About Careem

Careem is building the Everything App for the greater Middle East, making it easier than ever to move around, order food and groceries, manage payments, and more. Careem is led by a powerful purpose to simplify and improve the lives of people and build an awesome organization that inspires. Since 2012, Careem has created earnings for over 2.5 million Captains, simplified the lives of over 70 million customers, and built a platform for the region’s best talent to thrive and for entrepreneurs to scale their businesses. Careem operates in over 70 cities across 10 countries, from Morocco to Pakistan.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and operate large scale infrastructure including container platforms, release pipelines and internal tooling.
• Implement and improve our infrastructure and observability capabilities that result in improving our service reliability and operational insights.
• Create automation and tooling to streamline infrastructure operations and developer workflows.
• Partner with engineering and product teams to ensure our systems meet standards for availability, security and observability.
• Write and review high quality, performant and reliable code.
• Lead and mentor team members through code reviews, design discussions, while championing a culture of continuous improvement.
• Continuously improve team processes through agile practices and engineering excellence.

Requirements

• 6+ years of professional software development experience, with at least 3 years in systems or platform engineering roles.
• Expertise in one or more modern programming languages such as Golang or Python.
• Solid understanding of software engineering best practices, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
• Proven experience designing and operating distributed systems and infrastructure in cloud environments.
• Strong understanding of production operations, including metrics, safe deployments and incident response.
• Experience in operating Linux-based systems, with proven understanding of its internals.
• Solid grasp of Linux systems and container orchestration at scale.
• A passion for enabling engineering teams through scalable and reliable infrastructure.
• Strong communication skills and a track record of cross-functional collaboration.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or other related technical field.
• Experience with Golang and AWS.
• Experience working in a high-paced start-up environment.

Benefits

• Opportunity to work with inspiring colleagues and drive impact in the region.
• Work four days a week in office and one remotely, with the possibility of working remotely from any country for 30 days a year.
• Access to healthcare benefits and fitness reimbursements for health activities.

About the Company

Careem is a leading technology company offering various services across multiple domains, focusing on improving lives, driving economic development, and enabling regional entrepreneurship.