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Site Reliability Engineer, Sr. Site Reliability Engineer
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Role overview Help keep production services available, secure, and responsive by improving cloud infrastructure, automation, and operational visibility. The opening covers mid- and senior-level site reliability engineering, with work alongside application teams on scalable systems, incident response, and ongoing reliability improvements.
Responsibilities - Build and operate cloud infrastructure, primarily on AWS, using infrastructure-as-code and container deployment practices. - Improve metrics, logs, traces, and alerts so teams can detect and diagnose service issues quickly. - Automate recurring operational work and apply access controls and security requirements to infrastructure. - Use observability data to investigate incidents, identify root causes, and implement preventive changes. - Improve service reliability, performance, and scalability in collaboration with application engineering teams. - Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation; the stated availability objective is 99.999%.
Requirements - For the senior level, at least five years in site reliability, platform engineering, or a related production-focused software engineering role. - Strong observability knowledge, such as OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger, ELK, or Splunk. - Experience with Kubernetes, container orchestration, and infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform, Spacelift, or Pulumi. - Proficiency in Go or Python and a deep understanding of cloud platforms, preferably AWS. - Degree in computer science or engineering, or equivalent practical experience. - Experience with distributed systems and microservices, high-compliance environments, and OpenTelemetry instrumentation.
Nice to have Service mesh familiarity, open-source contributions, application development experience, or work in identity verification or financial technology.
Benefits and work setup U.S.-remote. Listed benefits include salary and eligible bonus or equity plans, retirement contributions, flexible hours and vacation, health coverage, and wellness resources. Compensation varies by level and location: the listed ranges are $120,000–$150,000 for the site reliability engineer level and $153,000–$185,000 for the senior level, depending on metro area.