Senior Site Reliability Engineer

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

📋 Description

• Take ownership of the company’s AWS infrastructure from start to finish, enhancing reliability, scalability, security, performance, and cost-effectiveness.

• Design, construct, and oversee Terraform infrastructure as code.

• Manage Kubernetes environments and containerized applications.

• Advance CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and developer workflows.

• Enhance observability, alerting, and incident response mechanisms.

• Lead investigations into production issues and implement measures to prevent their recurrence.

• Strategize for capacity, failure, and recovery while minimizing operational toil.

• Operate and upgrade PostgreSQL on RDS, Redis, and Elasticsearch systems, encompassing backups, replication, migrations, and performance optimization.

• Provide transparency into AWS and engineering tooling expenditures, collaborating on budgeting, forecasting, and infrastructure investment.

• Champion infrastructure security priorities alongside a senior external security advisor.

• Work collaboratively with backend engineers on architecture and contribute to backend services as needed.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 7 years of experience in site reliability engineering, DevOps, or infrastructure engineering, with direct ownership of production cloud environments.

• Extensive hands-on experience with AWS, Kubernetes, and Terraform.

• Solid understanding of Linux, networking, and distributed systems.

• Proven experience in building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, observability tools, and incident response frameworks.

• Familiarity with capacity planning, designing for failure and recovery, and ensuring production readiness.

• Experience in managing PostgreSQL, Redis, and Elasticsearch infrastructure.

• Proficient programming skills in Python, Go, or a similar language.

• Practical experience with cloud security, IAM, vulnerability management, and conducting security reviews.

• Experience in managing cloud infrastructure costs, balancing cost, performance, and reliability.

• Exceptional communication skills to engage effectively with engineers and business stakeholders.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive vacation and personal days.

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits, fully covered by the company.

• Employer matching contributions to RRSP.

• Profit-sharing bonuses.

• Access to enterprise-level AI tools.

• Flexible working hours.

• Support for diversity and inclusion initiatives.

• Accommodations available during the hiring process.