Staff Site Reliability Engineer

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

📋 Description

• Construct, manage, and troubleshoot production Kubernetes/EKS clusters.

• Execute Kubernetes upgrades, node rollouts, and perform cluster maintenance.

• Develop and oversee AWS infrastructure, including VPCs, networking, subnets, load balancers, IAM, EKS, databases, and storage solutions.

• Define and maintain infrastructure using Terraform.

• Create and manage CI/CD and deployment infrastructure.

• Diagnose production issues across Kubernetes, AWS, Linux, networking, and databases.

• Establish monitoring, alerting, and observability for critical infrastructure.

• Engage in on-call rotations and respond to production incidents.

• Identify and address infrastructure scaling and reliability challenges.

• Automate operational tasks using Python, Go, or similar programming languages.

• Assist in expanding infrastructure across new regions and deployment environments.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 8 years of experience as a Site Reliability Engineer, Platform Engineer, DevOps, Production Engineer, or in a comparable infrastructure role.

• Strong practical experience in operating Kubernetes.

• Experience in managing Kubernetes/EKS upgrades and production clusters.

• Solid understanding of AWS fundamentals, including VPCs, public/private subnets, networking, load balancers, EKS, IAM, and databases.

• Production experience with Terraform or similar infrastructure-as-code tools.

• Proven experience in owning or maintaining CI/CD and deployment systems like Argo CD, Spinnaker, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, or Jenkins.

• Background in diagnosing production infrastructure and networking issues.

• Experience in resolving significant scaling or reliability challenges.

• Verification of U.S. person status and ability to access controlled or restricted information as necessary.

• Bonus: Experience with Helm and GitOps.

• Bonus: Familiarity with Datadog or similar observability tools.

• Bonus: Experience in PostgreSQL/database operations.

• Bonus: Experience in multi-region infrastructure.

• Bonus: Experience with on-premises or disconnected deployments.

• Bonus: Experience with streaming or high-throughput distributed systems.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive base salary.

• Equity in the form of stock options.

• Comprehensive benefits package.

• Relocation assistance may be offered for eligible positions.

• Company-sponsored group health insurance plans.

• Paid vacation time.

• Sick leave.

• Holiday pay.

• 401K savings plan.