Senior Site Reliability Engineer II

Role overview Own reliability and operational improvements for large-scale applications, combining software development with hands-on systems work. You’ll automate recurring tasks, help teams meet service-level objectives, and partner with engineers to build resilient services and improve deployment and incident practices.

Responsibilities - Design, build, test, and document software and automation that address reliability challenges. - Create and maintain CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, alerting, and incident response practices. - Investigate issues across environments and help meet availability and service-level targets. - Work with software engineers on reliability during feature design and deployment; support local development environments on macOS and Windows. - Contribute to capacity planning, demand forecasting, change management, and uptime reporting. - Promote secure operations and participate in an agile SRE team, including an on-call rotation.

Requirements - At least five years of software engineering experience; TypeScript and Go are relevant, though experience in other languages is accepted. - Bachelor’s degree or higher in computer science or engineering, or equivalent experience. - Strong troubleshooting skills and familiarity with infrastructure as code, configuration management, networking, and cloud hosting. - Hands-on experience with Terraform, Kubernetes, and containers such as Docker; ability to build robust CI/CD workflows. - Understanding of monitoring, alerting, escalation, self-healing systems, and security practices. - Clear communication, agile team experience, and availability for a 24/7 on-call rotation.

Nice to have - Experience with AWS (including RDS, EKS, and CloudWatch); Google Cloud or Azure experience is also relevant. AWS SysOps or Solutions Architect certification is preferred.

Benefits and work setup - Minimal travel, generally no more than 12 days per year, with approximately two team gatherings annually. - Benefits include medical, dental, and vision coverage; 401(k) matching; flexible paid time off and 12 holidays; sick, parental, and family leave; a lifestyle spending account; tuition support; and a phone stipend.