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Staff Site Reliability Engineer (Remote)
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Role overview Guide reliability and resilience work for large-scale, distributed services running in AWS. You’ll identify systemic risks, shape infrastructure and operational plans, and help teams make complex systems safer and easier to understand. The position includes cross-functional coordination and may involve leading substantial technical projects.
Responsibilities - Analyze production incidents and plan changes that reduce the likelihood of recurrence. - Design globally distributed systems and operational processes. - Find and correct weaknesses in applications and infrastructure. - Develop solutions to difficult technical problems and explain them clearly to teammates. - Translate organizational goals into operational plans and coordinate work across teams. - Lead larger subprojects or small projects where needed, and contribute technical ideas through engineering work or professional publications.
Requirements - At least eight years of relevant experience, supported by a degree or equivalent background. - Ability to code in multiple or unfamiliar languages; examples include Python, Ruby and JavaScript. - Experience designing high-scale AWS architectures and repeatable CI/CD workflows; GitLab experience is preferred. - Ability to quickly understand, debug and explain distributed systems. - Strong communication, documentation and time-management skills, including managing competing work. - AWS Associate-level certification.
Nice to have - AWS Professional-level certification, or experience with GCP or Azure. - Secure coding training, experience at a publicly traded company, open-source contributions or technical writing.
Benefits and work setup Remote work is available to applicants in the United States. Listed benefits include company bonuses, adoption assistance, tuition reimbursement, and certification reimbursement and completion bonuses.