Site Reliability Engineer
About the job
- Familiarity with container technologies such as Docker or Kubernetes, including practical Kubernetes operations involving deployment, scheduling, and resource management.
- Familiarity with AWS services such as ECS, EKS, S3, CloudFront, IAM, and VPC, and practical experience maintaining AWS or GCP.
- Familiarity with at least one continuous integration and continuous delivery tool, such as GitHub Actions or GitLab CI.
- Proficiency in MySQL daily management and performance analysis.
- Familiarity with service log analysis and monitoring tools such as CloudWatch, ELK/EFK, and Grafana, with practical experience using Prometheus and Grafana.
- Experience maintaining Elasticsearch clusters.
- Familiarity with Git and basic Git flow operations.
- High degree of self-management, proactive and responsible work attitude, meticulousness, and strong communication and teamwork skills.
- Enjoy solving real-world problems, investigating proactively, and acting quickly.
- Value stability and data accuracy, and demonstrate a strong sense of responsibility.
- Passion for learning new tools and sharing improvement methods.
- Maintain clear communication and good documentation habits in team collaboration.
- Design robust architectures to improve system availability, scalability, and service quality.
- Ensure stable service operation, monitor core service status, and troubleshoot issues quickly.
- Analyze system performance bottlenecks and propose and implement improvement solutions.
- Maintain and optimize Kubernetes clusters, including EKS and GKE, and handle resource pressure, node anomalies, and related issues.
- Maintain and improve continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines and automated deployment systems, including GitHub Actions and ArgoCD, to improve engineering team development efficiency.
- Establish and continuously optimize system monitoring and alerting mechanisms using Prometheus, Grafana, and Alertmanager.
- Assist with incident response and problem investigation.
- Participate regularly in system inspections and audits, and proactively propose and implement improvements.
- Assist in maintaining and implementing fundamental security settings, including IAM, resource permissions, and encrypted storage.
- Share experience to enhance the team's engineering culture.
- Exposure to or familiarity with the Golang ecosystem.
- Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools such as CDK and Terraform.
- Experience with IPO advisory or ISO audit.
- Security awareness.
About the company
FunNow is an on-demand lifestyle booking platform offering instant reservations for dining, bars, beauty and wellness, hotels, and nightlife through a mobile app. The app uses geolocation and a patented algorithm to show real-time availability and lets users discover, book, and pay in about 30 seconds, often for experiences within 15 minutes. Merchants manage their own availability and pricing, while FunNow applies AI-driven dynamic pricing to adjust costs based on demand and time to help monetize off-peak hours. It earns commissions on bookings and aims to connect urban consumers and travelers with readily available experiences across Asia, expanding through strategic acquisitions and partnerships.
Company Size
51-200
Company Stage
Late Stage VC
Total Funding
$31.8M
Headquarters
Taipei, Taiwan
Founded
2015
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Hotai Motor invested $10 million on September 22, 2026, validating IPO readiness.
- Taishin Securities began listing advisory in July 2026, pushing Taiwan public-market preparation.
- FunNow's new partnership with chicTrip targets Japan travelers and AI itinerary booking.
What critics are saying
- Booking apps face brutal price transparency; KKday, Eatigo, and local OTAs compress margins.
- Taiwan listing review runs one to three years, and market windows close fast.
- A failed IPO leaves FunNow dependent on merchant commissions and repeated capital injections.
What makes FUNNOW Group unique
- FunNow spans seven Asian markets, linking restaurants, hotels, spas, and nightlife.
- Its last-minute booking flow wins spontaneous users within fifteen minutes.
- Eatigo and TABLEAPP give FunNow dense restaurant inventory and discounting expertise.
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Benefits
Flexible Work Hours
Growth & Insights and Company News
6 month growth
10%1 year growth
10%2 year growth
10%Hotai Motor has invested $10 million in FunNow, acquiring approximately 10% in preferred shares at $1.10 per share. The investment comes as FunNow, Taiwan's urban leisure booking platform, undergoes listing preparation procedures. FunNow operates across seven Asian markets including Taiwan, Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, and the Philippines. The platform has accumulated over 10 million users and partners with more than 16,000 merchants, with overseas revenue exceeding 50% of total revenue. The company signed a listing advisory contract with Taishin Securities in August 2026, beginning formal preparations for Taiwan's capital market. The listing process typically requires one to three years of guidance and review. For Hotai Motor, Taiwan's largest car dealer and distributor of Toyota, Lexus, and HINO, the investment extends beyond automotive services into urban consumer platforms. The stake provides both potential financial returns and strategic alignment with Hotai's expansion into consumer services, complementing initiatives like their OpenHub car wash platform.
FunNow, the Taiwan-based app that lets users book activities on-demand in five Asian countries, is growing its reach in Southeast Asia through a merger with restaurant booking app Eatigo. Terms of the deal were undisclosed, but FunNow CEO TK Chen says it is the largest post-COVID O2O MA deal in Southeast Asia.As part of the deal, Eatigo is now a key shareholder in FunNow Group. Eatigo CEO Michael Cluzel will join FunNow’s board, while Chen will continue serving as president and CEO of the group.Founded in 2015, FunNow has 2.5 million users and utilizes a dynamic pricing strategy that lets businesses on its platform chose to offer different prices to customers based on supply and demand. Since its launching Taiwan, FunNow has expanded to Japan, Hong Kong, Malaysia and Thailand. It has grown through a series of acquisitions, concluding Malaysia restaurant booking platform and SaaS provider TABLEAPP and Taiwanese family activity booking platform Niceday. Since its inception, FunNow has raised $22.5 million from investors including the corporate venture arms of PChome, KKday and Wistron.FunNow and Eatigo’s foundersEatigo was founded in Bangkok in 2013 and uses yield management techniques to help 4,000 restaurants book customers during off-peak hours at discounts up to 50% off