Senior Site Reliability Engineer

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

📋 Description

• Ensure the reliability, availability, and scalability of Lumin Digital’s applications.

• Design, build, test, and document software solutions to address site reliability challenges.

• Develop, implement, and manage CI/CD pipelines.

• Monitor and resolve issues across all environments while achieving SLO and uptime objectives.

• Collaborate with Software Engineers on SRE concerns during feature design and deployment.

• Construct, maintain, and support local development environments on macOS and Windows.

• Engage in capacity planning and demand forecasting.

• Execute change management to uphold system stability and minimize disruptions.

• Create uptime and SLO reports for internal review and leadership visibility.

• Take part in SRE scrum team activities and agile development processes.

• Ensure adherence to security best practices, data integrity, and system resilience.

• Enhance monitoring, alerting, infrastructure automation, incident response, and SLO reporting.

• Deliver quantifiable improvements in reliability, scaling capabilities, and automation.

• Assume a leadership role in SRE best practices and mentor junior team members.

⛳️ Requirements

• A Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field is required.

• A minimum of 5 years of experience as a software engineer.

• Proficiency in TypeScript and Go, or experience in other programming languages.

• Exceptional full-stack troubleshooting skills, particularly focused on system-level issues.

• Expertise in configuration management systems and Infrastructure-as-Code principles.

• Strong understanding of HTTP, DNS, TCP/IP, and load balancing.

• Experience with cloud hosting platforms; AWS is preferred, while Google Cloud and Azure are also valued.

• Practical experience with Terraform, Kubernetes, and Docker/containerization technologies.

• Solid understanding of CI/CD workflows and the ability to design robust pipelines.

• Familiarity with monitoring and alerting strategies, including self-healing and escalation processes.

• Strong problem-solving abilities focused on automation and operational efficiency.

• A security mindset aimed at protecting data integrity and resilience.

• Capability to support local development environments with Docker Desktop on macOS and Windows.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Proven ability to function effectively within an agile scrum team.

• Willingness to participate in a 24x7 on-call rotation.

• AWS certifications such as SysOps or Solutions Architect are preferred but not mandatory.

• Experience with Amazon RDS, EKS, and CloudWatch.

• Must be authorized to work in the United States.

• The role must be performed from within the continental U.S., excluding Montana, Alaska, and Hawaii.

• At least 5 years of professional experience in designing and building software in a production environment.

• Experience in designing, building, and documenting software to address reliability, automation, or operational issues in production.

• Hands-on production experience with Terraform or another Infrastructure-as-Code tool and Kubernetes.

• Experience working in a SaaS environment.

🏝️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.

• 401(k) with company matching.

• Flexible PTO.

• 12 paid holidays.

• Paid sick leave.

• Paid parental and family leave.

• Lifestyle spending account.

• Tuition reimbursement.

• Cell phone stipend.

• Minimal travel, generally 12 days or less per year.

• Approximately 2 team gatherings per year.