Senior Site Reliability Engineer

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

📋 Description

• Manage AWS services, accounts, access, PostgreSQL, and various data stores.

• Take ownership of the backup strategy across databases, S3 buckets, and queues.

• Confirm data restorations and uphold a verified disaster recovery strategy.

• Oversee production monitoring using CloudWatch dashboards, metric alerts, log-based metrics, and Slack notifications.

• Spearhead production troubleshooting and incident management.

• Create and sustain runbooks while engaging in the on-call rotation.

• Address queue and dead-letter-queue issues through retries, redrives, and recovery procedures.

• Enhance infrastructure for improved deployability and scalability.

• Maintain infrastructure as code, decommission unused resources, and ensure cost transparency and justification.

• Disseminate production operations knowledge among the team.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree and 4–6 years of relevant experience or equivalent professional background.

• Over 5 years of experience in DevOps, site reliability, or platform operations, with a significant focus on production systems.

• More than 3 years of practical experience with AWS, particularly in serverless services such as Lambda, SQS, EventBridge, CloudWatch, and S3.

• Strong expertise in PostgreSQL database administration, including backup and recovery, and query performance optimization.

• Familiarity with managing other data stores.

• Proficient in TypeScript, Python, and bash scripting.

• Solid understanding of Linux, DNS, TLS, Docker, GitHub Actions, and infrastructure as code utilizing SST, Pulumi, or Terraform.

• Experience in production monitoring and alerting, incident response, and on-call responsibilities.

• Must possess legal authorization to work in the United States; the application will inquire about future sponsorship needs.

• Must successfully complete comprehensive background, credit, and drug screenings as part of the hiring process.

🏝️ Benefits

• Comprehensive insurance coverage (medical, dental, vision, life, and disability).

• Flexible paid time off.

• Paid holidays.

• 401(k) plan with company match.

• Opportunity for remote work.