About the roleWe're looking for awith strong development skills and hands-on
Why should you join us?- Direct impact : Your work will affect reliability and developer experience across the entire company
- Modern tech stack : Work with AWS, EKS, and cutting-edge observability tools (Mimir, Grafana, Honeycomb, Loki, OTel)
- Collaborative culture : We believe in pair programming, knowledge sharing, and learning together
- Growth mindset : We support continuous learning and provide space for you to develop new skills
- Sustainable : We value long-term, scalable solutions rather than quick fixes
- Global team : Work with engineers across London, Israel, and North America
- Inclusive environment : We value diverse perspectives and encourage open feedback
What you'll be doing- Collaborate on designing, building, and maintaining Forter's kubernetes platform and our observability, monitoring, and alerting systems supporting 20+ engineering teams
- Complete our migration from EC2 VMs to kubernetes
- Complete our migration from ELK stack to our new scalable platform (Mimir, Grafana, Honeycomb, Loki, Quickwit)
- Work closely with engineering teams to improve their observability practices, SLOs, and kubernetes platform adoption
- Create intuitive developer tools that reduce MTTR and make troubleshooting easier
- Foster a culture of continuous learning through knowledge sharing and leading by example
- Collaborate through pairing and sharing sessions to ensure team alignment
- Balance short-term goals with long-term, sustainable infrastructure improvements
What you'll need- Extensive experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes)
- Hands-on experience with observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Honeycomb, Loki, or similar)
- Development background using modern languages (Python, Java or JavaScript etc.)
- Comfortable with collaborative practices (pair programming, code reviews)
- Self-driven with passion for building high-quality, sustainable software
- Excellent communication skills for both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Growth mindset that embraces challenges as learning opportunities
It'd be cool if you also- Have experience with SRE principles and Observability-Driven Development (ODD)
- Know how to design and scale monitoring infrastructure for distributed systems
- Are familiar with distributed tracing (OpenTelemetry)
- Have experience with cost optimisation for observability tools
- Understand microservices architectures and monitoring complex, interdependent services
- Have contributed to open-source observability or monitoring projects
Benefits include:- Competitive salary and bonus plan
- Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
- Private health insurance, including vision and dental coverage
- Generous PTO policy
- Half day Fridays, every Friday
Trust is backed by data – Forter is a recipient of over 10 workplace and innovation awards, including:
- Great Place to Work Certification (2021, 2022, 2023, )
- Fortune’s Best Workplaces in NYC (2022, 2023 and )
- Forbes Cloud 100 (2021, 2022, 2023 and )
- #3 on Fast Company’s list of “Most Innovative Finance Companies” ( )
- Anti-Fraud Solution of the Year at the Payments Awards ( )
- SAP Pinnacle Awards “New Partner Application Award” (2023)
- Fintech Breakthrough Awards – Best Fraud Prevention Platform (2023)