Staff Site Reliability Engineer

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

📋 Description

• Guide the strategy for cloud architecture with an emphasis on scalability, maintainability, and cost-effectiveness.

• Lead capacity planning initiatives to proactively scale in anticipation of demand.

• Oversee the health and architecture of the Kubernetes (GKE) platform.

• Design and enhance network architecture, global routing, connectivity, and the Cloudflare edge strategy.

• Drive the implementation of Infrastructure as Code standards and develop reusable Terraform/Terragrunt modules.

• Establish and improve observability practices, including monitoring, alerting, and service level objectives (SLOs).

• Lead the planning for disaster recovery, backup design, failover strategies, and definition of recovery time objectives (RTO) and recovery point objectives (RPO).

• Architect systems that are highly available and fault-tolerant.

• Optimize cloud expenditures while balancing performance, resilience, and costs.

• Mentor senior engineers to enhance their technical decision-making skills.

• Develop tools that empower developers and establish self-service patterns.

• Represent infrastructure and reliability considerations during planning processes.

• Advocate for change management, peer reviews, staged rollouts, and go/no-go decision points.

• Lead responses to high-severity incidents and participate in an on-call rotation.

• Transform incidents into opportunities for lasting improvements in reliability.

⛳️ Requirements

• Possess expert-level knowledge of Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and extensive infrastructure experience.

• Demonstrate expertise in Infrastructure as Code, particularly with Terraform and Terragrunt.

• Have experience with GitLab or comparable tools and the design and operation of CI/CD pipelines.

• Exhibit expertise in Kubernetes and containerization, including Helm.

• Hold strong experience in network architecture, routing, and connectivity both within GCP and across various cloud providers.

• Have significant experience with edge security and traffic management using solutions such as Cloudflare.

• Possess deep familiarity with observability tools and monitoring strategies.

• Experience leading incident management and response initiatives is required.

• Have a proven track record at the staff-level L6, including mentoring senior engineers.

• Demonstrate experience in architecting systems that are highly available and fault-tolerant.

• Exhibit a basic ability to read, comprehend, and write code across various languages and runtimes, such as Ruby/Rails, Java, and Python.

• Current and ongoing permanent residency in the United States is mandatory.

• Experience in cloud cost allocation and control is preferred.

• Familiarity with capacity planning and infrastructure forecasting at scale is preferred.

• Knowledge of AWS and/or Azure is preferred, with a primary focus on GCP.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive benefits package.

• Opportunities for professional development.

• A collaborative workplace culture.

• Fully remote work arrangement.