Staff Site Reliability Engineer

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

📋 Description

• Take ownership of SRE projects from initial scoping and design to implementation, rollout, and documentation.

• Act as a technical guide for the SRE team through design evaluations, intricate debugging, and mentoring.

• Design and manage infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and on-premises environments.

• Develop and maintain infrastructure as code using Terraform and reusable modules.

• Lead operations and solutions that encompass both cloud and on-premises environments, focusing on upgrades, capacity planning, networking, and scaling.

• Create repeatable runbooks and automate processes.

• Enhance CI/CD pipelines to minimize manual interventions and bolster rollback safety.

• Propel observability enhancements through insightful dashboards, SLOs, and low-noise alerting mechanisms.

• Identify and implement FinOps initiatives across various cloud platforms.

• Contribute to the reliability of MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MSSQL databases, including aspects like backups, performance, replication, and failover testing.

• Fortify security by implementing least-privilege access, secrets management, monitoring, and ensuring audit readiness.

• Diagnose complex production issues across networking, cloud, compute, on-premises, Kubernetes, and databases.

• Draft architecture decision records, runbooks, and post-incident action items.

• Collaborate with SRE leadership and engineering teams on incident evaluations, migration strategies, and platform direction.

• Engage in on-call duties and lead comprehensive post-incident analyses.

⛳️ Requirements

• Minimum of 6 years in SRE, DevOps, or Cloud Engineering roles.

• Demonstrated progression from executing tasks to independently owning projects.

• Hands-on experience with AWS, Azure, and on-premises infrastructure.

• Capability to design resilient hybrid solutions and articulate tradeoffs.

• Proficient in Terraform, including multi-environment state management and reviewing others’ Infrastructure as Code.

• Experience in CI/CD design and ownership, with a proven history of enhancing deployment reliability.

• Familiarity with observability practices, including strategies for minimizing alert noise.

• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal.

• An automation-first mindset with a history of reducing operational toil.

• Experience in incident management, including conducting post-incident reviews that lead to system improvements.

• Ability to work autonomously.

• FinOps experience across multiple cloud providers is a plus.

• Knowledge of Kubernetes is a nice-to-have.

• Ability to mentor others is a desirable quality.

• Experience with secrets management, such as Vault, is advantageous.

• Familiarity with event-driven architecture is a plus.

• Exposure to AI-enabled tools and workflow automation is an added benefit.

• Experience with data warehousing solutions like Snowflake is advantageous.

• Relevant certifications in AWS, Azure, CNCF, or HashiCorp are a plus.

• Experience in organizations that have expanded through acquisitions and consolidated varied infrastructure environments is a plus.

• Must be eligible to work in the United States.

• Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive compensation aligned with market standards.

• Remote-first work policy.

• Flexible Leave Policy.

• Comprehensive accident policy and life insurance coverage.

• Medical Insurance.

• Flexible Benefit Plan.

• Annual performance review cycle.

• Equity component (bonus if applicable).

• Supportive engineering culture that emphasizes diversity, empathy, teamwork, trust, and efficiency.

• Reasonable accommodations available for individuals with disabilities.