Our SRE teams are dealing with a range of different challenges, from managing our services that keep Bolt backend services running to optimizing our cloud infrastructure.

The SRE Database Reliability team plays a foundational role across all Bolt’s business verticals, directly impacting the quality, resilience, and performance of all services and product lines at scale. Working with a cutting-edge distributed database stack, the team operates in a high-load, high–data-volume environment where each member can make a significant, company-wide impact.

With over 200 million customers in 50+ countries, Bolt is one of the fastest-growing tech companies in Europe and Africa. And it's all thanks to our people.

We believe in creating an inclusive environment where everyone is welcome, regardless of race, colour, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, or disability.

Our ultimate goal is to make cities for people, not cars, and we need your help to achieve this mission!

As a Senior Site Reliabiity Engineer at Bolt you will lead the design, implementation, and maintenance of highly reliable and scalable systems infrastructure, collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure system reliability, performance optimization, and continuous improvement.

• Leading the design, implementation, automation and maintenance of highly reliable and scalable Database Systems infrastructure. Planning for future database growth and scalability, ensuring the architecture supports business needs.
• Participating in on-call activities for the most critical parts of the infrastructure, helping to solve incidents in a no-blaming culture.
• Performing Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and leading incident response by compiling thorough postmortems and implementing preventive measures. Identifying performance bottlenecks and inefficiencies in the system and implementing solutions to optimize database configurations and performance, including SQL queries and indexes optimization.
• Ensuring all core services are properly measured, monitored, and covered by alerting systems.
• Work closely with engineering teams to design efficient schemas, perform query reviews, and provide guidance on database best practices.
• Enforcing security best practices, managing access controls, and ensuring compliance with data governance policies and industry standards.

• You have proven track record in systems engineering.
• Solid experience with Relational Database Management Systems (e.g. MySQL). Knowledge of NewSQL and NoSQL Databases is beneficial.
• Strong Linux troubleshooting expertise (including networking, file systems, security and the kernel), as well as a solid understanding of large-scale distributed systems.
• Proficient coding skills (preferably Python, Go, Rust or Bash), along with experience in cloud platforms (e.g., AWS) and infrastructure automation tools such as Terraform and Ansible. 
• Good understanding of DevOps practices and Agile (e.g., Scrum) way of working.
• You are a team player with a high level of empathy and good communication skills, who works well with others in the group and the rest of organization.

Experience is great, but we really look for drive, intelligence, and integrity. So even if you don’t tick every box, please consider applying if you feel you’re the kind of person described above!

• Accelerate your professional growth with unique career opportunities.
• Enjoy a rewarding salary and stock options, knowing that as Bolt succeeds, so do you.
• Take care of your physical and mental health with our wellness perks.
• Celebrate 5 years at Bolt with a 1-month paid sabbatical to recharge.
• Connect with colleagues at annual company events and smaller team gatherings.
• Balance flexibility and in-person collaboration with our hybrid model, including at least 12 monthly in-office days.

*Some perks may differ depending on your location and role.

Bolt engineering teams are working on unique product challenges – complex algorithms for demand prediction, optimal real-time pricing, routing, fraud detection, distributed systems, and much more. Volumes are constantly growing.

Our SRE teams are dealing with a range of different challenges, from managing our services that keep Bolt backend services running to optimizing our cloud infrastructure.

The SRE Platform team is responsible for ensuring the reliability, availability, and scalability of Bolt's backend services.

With over 200 million customers in 50+ countries, Bolt is one of the fastest-growing tech companies in Europe and Africa. And it's all thanks to our people.

We believe in creating an inclusive environment where everyone is welcome, regardless of race, colour, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, or disability.

Our ultimate goal is to make cities for people, not cars, and we need your help to achieve this mission!

Our Site Reliability Engineers in the Platform team are working towards making sure we build up an ever more resilient and scalable platform for engineering teams to build on top of.

• Developing automation and implementing internal systems.
• Participating in architectural discussions to select the best long-term solution and collaborating with other SRE Engineers and Software Engineers.
• Implementation of new systems and tuning of existing ones to enable better reliability, availability, scalability, or reduce costs.
• Troubleshooting production system issues.
• Making sure all main services are measured, monitored, and covered by alerting systems.
• Participating in on-call activities for the most critical parts of the infrastructure, helping to solve incidents in a no-blaming culture.

• You have in-depth knowledge of Linux troubleshooting, including networking, filesystems, security, and the kernel.
• You have a solid understanding of large-scale distributed systems.
• You are experienced with AWS services, such as EC2 and EKS.
• You have experience with infrastructure automation tools, such as Terraform and Ansible.
• You are a team player, with good communication skills, that works well with others in the group and the rest of the organization.

Experience is great, but we really look for drive, intelligence, and integrity. So even if you don’t tick every box, please consider applying if you feel you’re the kind of person described above!

• Accelerate your professional growth with unique career opportunities.
• Enjoy a rewarding salary and stock options, knowing that as Bolt succeeds, so do you.
• Take care of your physical and mental health with our wellness perks.
• Celebrate 5 years at Bolt with a 1-month paid sabbatical to recharge.
• Connect with colleagues at annual company events and smaller team gatherings.
• Balance flexibility and in-person collaboration with our hybrid model, including at least 12 monthly in-office days.

*Some perks may differ depending on your location and role.

By bringing together next-gen technology and the finest live data available, Genius Sports is enabling a new era of sports for fans worldwide, delivering experiences that are more immersive, interactive and personalised than ever before. Learn more at geniussports.com.

THE ROLE

This role sits at the core of the employee experience, supporting the full employee lifecycle from onboarding through to offboarding. Based on-site in our Tallinn office, you will ensure that People processes run smoothly, data is accurate, and employees receive timely support across a range of HR topics.

Working closely with the wider People team, you will help maintain efficient operations, support payroll and benefits processes, and contribute to ongoing improvements in how we support our teams. Your work directly impacts how employees experience Genius Sports day to day, ensuring consistency, reliability, and a high standard of support across the business.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Support onboarding, employee changes, and offboarding, ensuring a smooth and compliant experience. Deliver onboarding sessions for new starters
• Act as a first point of contact for employee queries, managing requests through the ticketing system and resolving or escalating when needed
• Maintain accurate employee data in HR systems and manage employment documentation with strong attention to detail
• Assist with benefits administration and payroll processes, ensuring data is accurate and submitted on time
• Support ongoing People team initiatives and projects
• Identify opportunities to improve processes, data quality, and overall employee experience

WHAT YOU'LL BRING

• Relevant education and/or previous experience in HR
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with a supportive and employee-focused approach
• Proactive, organized, and able to take initiative in day-to-day work
• Open and adaptable to change, with a willingness to learn and grow
• Comfortable with technology, including HR systems (e.g. Workday) and learning new tools
• Good knowledge of Estonian labor law
• Proficiency in written and spoken English and Estonian

We enjoy an ‘office-first’ culture and maximize opportunities to collaborate, connect and learn together. Our hybrid working models differ depending on your role and location.

As well as a competitive salary and range of benefits, we’re committed to supporting employee wellbeing and helping you grow your skills, experience and career. Learn more about how rewarding life at Genius can be at Reward | Genius Sports. 

One team, being brave, driving change  

We strive to create an inclusive working environment, where everyone feels a sense of belonging and the ability to make a difference. Learn more about our values and culture at Culture | Genius.

Let us know when you apply if you need any assistance during the recruiting process due to a disability.

What is this role about?

As Site Reliability Engineer, you’re tasked with making sure that our infrastructure stays a couple of steps ahead of our ambitious growth plans. You’ll solve complex infrastructure problems and make those solutions available to engineering teams so that they can deploy with peace of mind and focus on customer problems.

It’s a rare chance to be part of a product-driven culture where you make your own decisions, emphasis is on quality of solutions rather than outputs, and everyone strives to improve across practices, tools, technologies. You’ll enjoy a high degree of ownership, diverse set of problems (cloud, developer experience, databases, provisioning etc.) and an environment that values problem-solving and collaboration.

This hybrid role is located in our Tallinn or Tartu office. 

Your main responsibilites will be: 

• Build a reliable platform for our products, making sure that up-time, monitoring and recovery meet up to the modern standard.
• Standardized and automate infrastructure tasks so that engineers are able to self-serve and benefit from best practices
• Build a developer experience that allows to ship without friction, confidently and daily, making best practices available to teams through tooling and automation.
• Manage and optimize cloud infrastructure, including databases.
• Respond to and solve production incidents.

What you'll bring:

• 5+ years of experience with cloud infrastructure, Azure preferred.
• Ability to write code and script to automate tasks.
• Infrastructure as code and automated provisioning.
• Understanding of networking and security fundamentals
• Strong understanding of monitoring, incident management and recovery practices.
• You are ready for on-call shifts. 
• Bonus: 
  • Experience in a regulate space, preferably in Finance
  • Specialized knowledge in networking, security, Kubernetes, databases or developer experience

What can you expect at Bondora? 

• Contribute to Bondora’s ambitious goal of reaching 1BN in revenue. Your skills and efforts will directly impact our growth trajectory and shape the future of our company.
• Our employees deserve the best. We recognize our people with a competitive salary and a generous benefits package (5 weeks of vacation, private healthcare compensation, hobby grant, mental healthcare support, share options and much more!)
• We provide an environment that encourages your personal and professional growth. As we constantly evolve and innovate, you’ll have endless opportunities (and budget) to expand your skills and skyrocket your career.

The next steps

If you have the guts, ideas, and a team vision, apply now! 

Our hiring process: 

• First off, meet Karl who will talk a bit more about Bondora, the role and will have few questions up his sleeve! 
• Meet ťhe hiring manager: our 2nd call will give you the chance to hear more about us and share your experiences and aspirations. 
• Assessments: Complete personality and logic assessments to showcase your strengths. 
• Meet the team for technical interview: Get to know the people you’ll be working closest with. 
• Last discussion with our VP of Engineering as the final cherry on top. 
• The celebration begins: If the stars align, receive an offer to join the Bondora team!