Senior SRE, Site Experience

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $190.8k - $267.1k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

⛑ DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

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📋 Description

• Lead reliability engineering initiatives for critical user-facing systems at internet scale • Drive projects improving reliability, scalability, and performance across API, content delivery, feed generation, search, and real-time experiences • Own execution from design through launch • Partner with product and infrastructure engineering teams to improve availability and performance under massive global load • Lead initiatives involving redundancy, graceful degradation, traffic management, and capacity planning • Identify systemic risks and reliability bottlenecks across services, dependencies, deployments, and infrastructure • Build proactive mitigation strategies and engineering improvements to reduce incidents and improve service health • Automate repetitive operational work through tooling and systems • Improve deployment safety, incident response, remediation workflows, and reliability guardrails • Define and champion best practices for reliability engineering, SLIs/SLOs, capacity management, release engineering, and operational maturity • Provide technical leadership and mentorship to SRE and software engineering teams • Help shape reliability culture and raise operational excellence across the organization

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, or related roles operating large-scale distributed systems • Strong experience supporting high traffic, user-facing production environments • Deep understanding of one or more: distributed systems, networking, Linux systems, cloud native architectures • Strong programming skills in languages such as Go, Python, or similar • Strong understanding of observability systems including metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting • Experience improving reliability through SLOs, automation, incident management, and performance optimization • Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot complex issues across applications, infrastructure, networking, and services • Strong collaboration and communication skills with the ability to influence technical direction across teams • Experience designing highly-available systems with strong operational and reliability practices • Experience with Kubernetes, containers, cloud infrastructure, and modern deployment platforms • Familiarity with Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Envoy, Kafka, ClickHouse, Cassandra, Redis, or similar distributed infrastructure technologies • Experience with CDN optimization, edge reliability, traffic engineering, or global infrastructure • Contributions to open source software or participation in technical communities • Experience leading large scale incident response and operational transformation initiatives

🏖️ Benefits

• Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs • 401k with Employer Match • Global Benefit programs that fit your lifestyle, from workspace to professional development to caregiving support • Family Planning Support • Gender-Affirming Care • Mental Health & Coaching Benefits • Flexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer Time Off • Generous Paid Parental Leave • Equity in the form of restricted stock units • Medical, dental, and vision insurance • Generous time off for vacation and parental leave • Flexible first workforce / fully remote work

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