Senior Site Reliability Engineer

🕒 September 18

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $152k - $205k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

⛑ DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

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📋 Description

• Own the reliability of core production systems end to end • Define and maintain SLIs and SLOs, dashboards, alerts, and error-budget practices • Improve alert quality and anomaly/correctness detection • Lead incident response, restore service, and write actionable postmortems • Build secure, resilient, and cost-efficient infrastructure with explicit failure-mode handling • Perform load testing, profiling, saturation analysis, and capacity planning • Improve change safety through progressive delivery, automated rollback, pre-production signals, and safe deployment practices • Manage infrastructure through code and configuration, primarily using Terraform • Design, write, and ship software and developer-facing tooling • Run game days and chaos exercises • Partner with product engineering teams on production readiness, capacity, failure modes, rollback plans, runbooks, and on-call handoff • Participate in and improve the on-call rotation • Apply a security lens to engineering work and peer reviews • Serve as the go-to person for difficult production problems and mentor engineers through code review, pairing, and design feedback

🎯 Requirements

• 6–10 years of experience in SRE, production engineering, infrastructure, or backend engineering within primarily cloud-based environments (AWS preferred) • Track record of owning a system end to end • Hands-on experience defining and operating against SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets • Experience leading or serving as a primary responder on high-severity, customer-facing incidents • Depth in distributed-systems failure modes in high-throughput, low-latency environments • Depth in cloud infrastructure fundamentals, including networking, load balancing, containerization (EKS/Kubernetes), and distributed systems • Strong hands-on experience managing infrastructure through code and configuration (Terraform or equivalent) • Solid programming skills in Go, Python, or a comparable language • Fluency with observability tooling such as Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, or OpenTelemetry • Hands-on experience operating Redis/ElastiCache in production, including cluster/shard management, failover behavior, memory eviction policies, and scaling strategies • Fluency with software engineering best practices, including source control, code review, comprehensive test coverage, and safe deployment • High level of personal ownership and autonomy, with experience working without clearly defined requirements • Pragmatism in balancing reliability and delivery • Strong written and verbal communication in English • AI-native use of AI tools for incident investigation, telemetry analysis, runbooks, and tooling • Must be authorized to work from the home location • Visa sponsorship is not provided

🏖️ Benefits

• 100% remote work • Ability to join the workforce from almost any country, subject to country restrictions • Visa sponsorship is not provided • Inclusive work environment • CCPA and GDPR notices for applicable residents

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