Staff Site Reliability Engineer

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🔥 2 minutes ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $210k - $250k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

⛑ DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Where this job comes from

Posted on Bluesky Social's careers page, not through a job board

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Bluesky Social

11 - 50 employees

Founded 2021

🔌 API

👥 B2C

💰 $100M Later Stage VC (Series B) on 2025-01

API • B2C

Bluesky is an open, decentralized social network built on the AT Protocol that aims to give users control over their timelines, moderation, and identity across the social internet. It positions itself as social media made for communities and creators, emphasizing open source infrastructure, public APIs, and a developer ecosystem for building custom feeds, clients, bots, and moderation tools. Bluesky is organized as a Public Benefit Corporation and focuses on interoperability, user choice, and preventing centralized ownership of social networks.

📋 Description

• Design, implement, and operate infrastructure powering Bluesky and the AT Protocol • Work across bare-metal systems, cloud services, data infrastructure, observability, incident response, capacity planning, and reliability engineering for systems serving millions of users • Own reliability, availability, and operational excellence for production systems, including observability, incident response, deployment, and rollback systems • Improve production readiness for services, migrations, and infrastructure changes • Develop software for performance, automation, observability, and related areas • Scale systems running on dense, latest-generation bare-metal servers in company colocation facilities • Reduce toil through automation, tooling, and thoughtful engineering practices • Partner with engineers across teams to design services with strong operational characteristics • Lead incident reviews and turn contributing factors into engineering improvements • Perform capacity planning and cost management across compute, storage, database, and networking workloads • Manage vendor relationships to provide high-quality services at reasonable total cost of ownership • Mentor engineers on reliability, operability, debugging, and distributed systems practices • Help define a culture of operational excellence across the organization

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years experience operating high-scale production systems, including bare metal • Strong fundamentals in Linux, networking, storage, databases, and distributed systems • Experience building and operating high-scale systems where correctness, latency, throughput, and availability were critical • Ability to write production-quality software in Go • Comfortable debugging across application code, operating systems, databases, networks, and hardware • Experience with observability systems, alert design, incident response, capacity planning, Kubernetes, and production automation • Interest in working on very small, fast-moving teams at a startup • Read the AT Protocol docs, feel aligned with the mission, and want to contribute • Overlap of working hours with PST is required • Willingness to travel to team meetups once every 3-4 months • There may be an on-site component to the interviews

🏖️ Benefits

• Equity will be considered in the total compensation package • Health, dental, and vision insurance • Fully remote team • Willingness to travel to team meetups once every 3-4 months

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