Site Reliability Engineer (Production Engineering Team)
LearnPlatform
Software Engineering
Budapest, Hungary
Posted on Aug 4, 2025
At Instructure, we believe in the power of people to grow and succeed throughout their lives. Our goal is to amplify that power by creating intuitive products that simplify learning and personal development, facilitate meaningful relationships, and inspire people to go further in their education and careers. We do this by giving smart, creative, passionate people opportunities to create awesome.
And that's where you come in:
By focusing on our values — ownership, openness, simplicity, equality, relationships, and learning — and using a modern stack that includes AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Vault, Terraform, Ruby, and Go, we are pushing the boundaries of managing services at scale.
What you will be doing:
- Partnering with engineering teams to automate & optimize service availability, scalability, performance, monitoring, and alerting.
- Educating & empowering software engineers to think operationally when designing services and operate what they build.
- Writing code to simplify DevOps tasks and allow engineers to deploy and debug their own code in production.
- Building and maintaining continuous integration pipelines and helping application teams deploy high quality products with increasing frequency.
- Creating and maintaining methodologies of iteratively deploying Instructure’s cloud-based architecture and platforms.
- Building resilient and self-scaling systems so that you and the team can sleep through the night.
What we look for:
- A desire for ownership and love for problem-solving.
- Experience managing a 24/7 SaaS with amazing uptime.
- Experience with Continuous Integration (CI) pipelines and systems (Jenkins and GitHub Actions).
- Experience with at least one cloud platform (Amazon Web Service preferred).
- Programming experience in at least one modern programming language (Ruby, Python, Java, or Go).
- Experience with containers (Docker) or container orchestration (Kubernetes).
- Exposure to configuration management, automation, and infrastructure-as-code tools (Ansible and Terraform).
- Open, team-oriented, and with a broad range of skills and interests.
- Strong communication skills both in English and Hungarian.
Get in on all the awesome at Instructure!
- We offer competitive, meaningful benefits in every country where we operate. While they vary by location, here's a general idea of what you can expect:
- Competitive compensation, plus all full-time employees participate in our ownership program - because everyone should have a stake in our success.
- Flexible schedules and a remote-friendly culture, with hybrid or onsite work options available in some regions for specific roles
- Generous time off, including local holidays and our annual company-wide “Dim the Lights” week in late December, when we encourage everyone to step back and recharge
- Comprehensive wellness programs and mental health support
- Annual learning and development stipends to support your growth
- The technology and tools you need to do your best work
- Motivosity employee recognition program
- A culture rooted in inclusivity, support, and meaningful connection
We believe in hiring great people and treating them right. The more diverse we are, the better our ideas and outcomes.
Instructure is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We comply with applicable employment and anti-discrimination laws in every country where we operate.
All employees must pass a background check as part of the hiring process. To help protect our teams and systems, we’ve implemented identity verification measures. Candidates may be asked to verify their legal name, current physical location, and provide a valid contact number and residential address, in accordance with local data privacy laws.
Any attempt to misrepresent personal or professional information will result in disqualification.