QUALITY AND RELIABILITY ENGINEER (QRE)

About the position

Quality & Reliability Engineer (QRE)
Hybrid / Remote Industry:

• Purpose of the Role:
  The Quality & Reliability Engineer (QRE) ensures the companies delivers stable, secure, and high-quality [Email Address Removed] a bridge between development, QA, and operations, the QRE owns our CI/CD pipelines, enforces quality gates, monitors reliability, and safeguards the platform against regressions, downtime, and technical debt.
  Key Responsibilities
• CI/CD & Deployment
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  Maintain and improve continuous integration and delivery pipelines (GitHub Actions / Heroku).
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  Automate test, linting, type-checking, and coverage enforcement gates.
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  Deploy approved changes to staging and production environments.
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  Own rollback procedures and ensure safe release practices (e.g. feature flags, canary rollouts).
• Observability & Incident Response
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  Monitor production health (Sentry, logs, performance dashboards).
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  Track SLIs/SLOs (e.g., error rates, MTTR, CFR) and report reliability metrics monthly.
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  Prepare runbooks for common incidents; support the incident commander rotation.
• Test Infrastructure & Quality Gates
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  Maintain and evolve automated test suites (unit, integration, acceptance).
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  Own flaky test backlog and test fixture/data generation tooling.
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  Collaborate with developers to ensure code is testable, isolated, and regression-safe.
• Security & Platform Hardening
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  Integrate security scans, dependency checks (e.g., Dependabot), and audit trail features into CI/CD.
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  Partner with the Security Champion to ensure releases meet internal standards and SOC 2 requirements.
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  Contribute to infrastructure security posture (e.g., IAM scoping, key management, release audit logs).
• Developer Experience & Release Tooling
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  Improve developer productivity through tooling, sandbox environments, and local parity.
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  Reduce cycle time from PR to production by identifying bottlenecks in the build or test stages.

Requirements:
? Strong experience with CI/CD tooling (e.g., GitHub Actions, CircleCI, GitLab CI).
? Familiarity with cloud platform pipelines (e.g., Heroku Pipelines).
? Proficient in Python and shell scripting (bonus: Django familiarity).
? Experience maintaining test automation frameworks.
? Comfort with observability tools (e.g., Sentry, etc).
? Track record of delivering reliable, secure systems in a SaaS or FinTech environment. Knowledge/Experience in the following areas will be beneficial, but not required:
? Experience with feature flag systems (e.g., Unleash, LaunchDarkly).
? Understanding of SOC 2 / ISO 27001 controls in CI/CD.
? Exposure to data privacy and multi-tenant architectures.
? Experience running post-mortems and tracking incident action items. Metrics you will own:
? CI duration and reliability.
? Change failure rate (CFR) and mean time to recovery (MTTR).
? Defect escape rate and flaky test volume.
? Sentry alert volume and resolution latency.
? Release cadence and deployment success rate. Traits we value:
? Relentlessly pragmatic: You optimise for stability over perfection.
? Systems thinker: You see failure modes before they happen.
? Quality advocate: You know tests are not overhead, they're leverage.
? Security conscious: You think in terms of blast radius and defence-in-depth.
? Quietly powerful: You make every engineer faster without becoming a bottleneck.

Desired Skills:

• GitHub Actions / Heroku).
• github
• heroku
• ci
• cd
• continuous integration
• compact disc
• itHub Actions
• CircleCI
• GitLab C
• ci tooling
• cd tooling
• sentry

Desired Work Experience:

• 2 to 5 years

Desired Qualification Level:

• Degree