Senior Site Reliability Engineer

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

📋 Description

• Develop and manage infrastructure, tools, and pathways that empower developers to produce scalable, secure, and dependable software.

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

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

• Enhance platform resilience through failure-driven testing, automated recovery methods, and proactive capacity planning.

• Create and deliver reusable platform components and self-service tools.

• Establish and refine observability standards, encompassing system metrics, distributed tracing, and SLO frameworks.

• Take ownership of projects from the initial scoping and effort estimation to planning, execution, and deployment.

• Guide and mentor engineers while shaping infrastructure best practices and organizational standards.

• Engage in technical design discussions, offering insights and feedback.

• Be a part of a low-volume on-call rotation.

• Work alongside software engineering and security teams to advance IaC, CI/CD pipelines, and the internal developer platform.

⛳️ Requirements

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

• Practical experience in managing production environments on AWS.

• Proficient in Go or Python, with a background in creating production-grade automation, tools, or libraries.

• Extensive experience with Terraform.

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

• Understanding of CI/CD tools like GitHub Actions.

• Experience in designing and implementing reusable platform components tailored to team needs.

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

• Knowledge of failure-driven testing techniques and automated recovery strategies.

• Excellent leadership and communication abilities, both written and verbal.

• Experience promoting reliability best practices.

• Bonus: Familiarity with microservices architectures.

• Bonus: Experience with Kafka or other event streaming systems.

• Bonus: Background in developing internal developer platforms or self-service infrastructure.

• Bonus: Knowledge of systems security, compliance requirements, or hardening practices.

🏝️ Benefits

• Full coverage for medical, dental, and vision expenses.

• 401(k) retirement plan with a competitive employer matching contribution.

• Flexible paid time off (PTO).

• Up to 14 weeks of paid leave for birthing parents and 8 weeks of paid parental leave for non-birthing parents.

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

• Wellness programs for mental and physical health, including One Medical, Headspace, Wellhub, and more!

• Competitive salary with opportunities for career advancement.

• Remote-first work environment with a highly inclusive culture.