Senior Site Reliability Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Design, develop, and sustain highly scalable infrastructure utilizing Infrastructure as Code (Terraform and Terragrunt) for the automated provisioning and orchestration of cloud resources.

• Take ownership of and enhance the AWS cloud environment to ensure cost efficiency, security, and high availability.

• Manage and optimize Kubernetes clusters using Helm, ArgoCD, Istio, and Kustomize.

• Administer and scale infrastructure for Confluent Cloud and Apache Kafka data streaming.

• Deploy, configure, and maintain Redis for caching and real-time data processing.

• Implement and uphold monitoring, alerting, and incident response frameworks utilizing Prometheus, Grafana, Alert Manager, Grafana Cloud, OpsGenie/PagerDuty.

• Facilitate controlled feature deployments and progressive rollouts through LaunchDarkly/PostHog.

• Collaborate with software development teams to integrate new services, applications, and features into the existing infrastructure.

• Diagnose and resolve intricate system-level issues while ensuring performance and maximizing uptime.

• Propel the continuous enhancement of automation tools, operational processes, and engineering methodologies.

• Stay updated on emerging SRE trends and assist the team in adopting relevant industry advancements and best practices.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of experience in a Senior Site Reliability Engineer position or a similar role, with a strong focus on cloud infrastructure management and automation.

• Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Terragrunt) for enterprise-scale deployments.

• In-depth knowledge of AWS, including the design, implementation, and maintenance of secure, scalable, and resilient cloud architectures.

• Extensive hands-on experience with distributed data streaming technologies (Confluent Cloud, Apache Kafka).

• Demonstrated experience with Redis for caching and Amazon RDS for relational database management.

• Experience with enterprise search and analytics platforms (OpenSearch, Elasticsearch, ChaosSearch).

• Proficient in designing and implementing monitoring and alerting infrastructures (Prometheus, Grafana, Alert Manager, Grafana Cloud, OpsGenie/PagerDuty).

• Practical experience with feature flag systems (LaunchDarkly/PostHog) for controlled release management.

• Vast experience in administering production-grade Kubernetes (Helm, ArgoCD, Istio) and a working knowledge of Kustomize.

• Strong problem-solving abilities, with the capability to troubleshoot complex systems in production environments.

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with experience in Agile work environments.

• Must be authorized to work in the United States without any restrictions.

• Must not require sponsorship to work within the United States.

• Nice to have: Familiarity with Terragrunt, Kafka, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, cloud security/compliance, serverless computing, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Node.js, Python, and/or Go.

🏝️ Benefits

• Health Insurance

• Vision Insurance

• Dental Insurance

• Life Insurance

• Robust 401k plan

• Discretionary Time Off

• Other minor perks

• Equity participation available to employees globally