Senior Site Reliability Engineer

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

📋 Description

• Design, construct, and expand production environments utilizing AWS and Terraform.

• Influence architectural choices that enhance long-term maintainability and dependability.

• Lead initiatives to bolster platform resilience through failure-based testing, automated recovery methods, and proactive capacity management.

• Oversee the design and delivery of reusable platform components and self-service tools.

• Enhance the developer experience and minimize cross-team operational challenges.

• Define and advance observability standards, encompassing system metrics, distributed tracing, and SLO frameworks.

• Manage projects from inception to completion, including scoping, estimation, planning, execution, and rollout.

• Mentor engineers, maintain infrastructure quality, and influence organizational best practices and standards.

• Participate in technical design discussions, providing insights and constructive feedback.

• Join a low-volume on-call rotation.

⛳️ Requirements

• 6+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, Cloud Engineering, or Software Development roles.

• Practical experience operating production environments in AWS.

• Proficiency in Go or Python, with a background in developing production-grade automation, tooling, or libraries.

• Extensive experience with Terraform.

• Familiarity with container orchestration platforms such as ECS or Kubernetes.

• Knowledge of CI/CD tools like GitHub Actions.

• Experience in designing and implementing reusable platform components based on team needs.

• Strong understanding of observability practices, including system metrics, distributed tracing, and SLOs.

• Familiarity with failure-based testing methodologies and automated recovery strategies.

• Excellent leadership and communication skills, both written and oral.

• Experience promoting reliability best practices.

• Knowledge of microservices architectures.

• Exposure to Kafka or similar event streaming technologies.

• Experience in building internal developer platforms or self-service infrastructure.

• Understanding of systems security, compliance requirements, or hardening practices.

🏝️ Benefits

• 100% coverage for medical, dental, and vision insurance.

• Flexible paid time off (PTO).

• Annual stipend for home office expenses and access to WeWork.

• Wellness programs for mental and physical health, including Headspace, Lumino, and more!

• Competitive salary with opportunities for advancement.