Staff Site Reliability Engineer

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

📋 Description

• Define and implement a multi-quarter technical strategy focused on reliability, infrastructure, and platform tooling.

• Oversee the design of complex, cross-functional infrastructure systems and assess technical specifications and architecture proposals.

• Inspire product engineering teams to embrace reliability best practices and provide guidance on production readiness.

• Mentor SREs across teams in the US and Bangalore through design reviews, collaboration, and code assessments.

• Create frameworks for SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets while assisting teams in instrumentation and monitoring.

• Act as a senior technical leader during high-severity incidents and facilitate blameless post-mortems.

• Direct capacity planning, disaster recovery, and failure-mode testing initiatives.

• Advance the monitoring and alerting strategy.

• Design, construct, and manage AWS infrastructure utilizing Terraform, Kubernetes, and GitOps workflows with ArgoCD and Atlantis.

• Architect controlled AI gateways for model routing, access controls, audit trails, and secure data connectors.

• Ensure infrastructure complies with security and regulatory standards through automated scanning, PII guardrails, and scoped data access.

• Lead efforts in cloud cost optimization, LLM token metering and budgeting, and cost-aware model routing.

• Develop internal tools, CI/CD pipelines, and self-service platforms.

• Identify and automate systemic sources of engineering toil.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 10 years of full-time software engineering experience in relevant roles (SRE, Infrastructure, Platform, DevOps, or Backend SWE), including substantial experience operating production systems at scale.

• Proven ability to lead complex, multi-team infrastructure or reliability projects from inception to delivery while influencing technical direction beyond the immediate team.

• Proficiency in coding with Golang, Python, or TypeScript.

• Strong commitment to engineering best practices, encompassing design patterns, code reviews, and testing methodologies.

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

• Comprehensive understanding of distributed systems, PostgreSQL, CI/CD systems, and observability tools like DataDog.

• Practical experience in implementing SLIs/SLOs, leading incident response efforts, and conducting productive post-mortems.

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.

• Ability to produce clear design documents, articulate trade-offs to executives, and foster consensus across teams.

• Strong motivation to eliminate toil from systems while exercising sound judgment to balance reliability, speed, and cost.

🏝️ Benefits

• Details about US benefits are available at https://www.ethoslife.com/careers/.

• Bonus, equity, and other benefits are applicable but not included in the listed base salary.

• Full-time employment opportunity.

• Remote work arrangement available.