Site Reliability Engineer

AbbVie

. Collaborate with key stakeholders across the business to solve critical technical problems for Allergan Aesthetics .

Posted 10/14/2026full-timeRemote • Washington • United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $141,500 - $268,500 per yearWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in driving reliability and operational excellence for large-scale public-facing software, with a strong focus on SLO/SLI frameworks, observability strategies, and incident management. Proficient in automation and performance tuning using Terraform and Kubernetes, while providing technical mentorship and fostering continuous learning.

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SLO/Error Budget ManagementIncident ManagementTerraform ConfigurationKubernetes on AWSObservability Platforms

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Hard Skills

ScriptingProgrammingAutomationPerformance TuningCapacity PlanningLoad TestingResilience TestingFault FindingRoot-Cause AnalysisError Budget Decision Making

Soft Skills

CollaborationTechnical MentorshipKnowledge SharingContinuous LearningLeadership

Tools & Technologies

DatadogAWSAgentic AI ToolsClaude CodeMCP-based Integrations

Industry Keywords

Operational ExcellenceProduction ReadinessSelf-Healing SystemsBlameless PostmortemsService Compliance

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSKubernetesPythonTerraformGo

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Collaborate with key stakeholders across the business to solve critical technical problems for Allergan Aesthetics
Drive reliability, availability, and operational excellence for large-scale public-facing software
Own how production reliability is measured, protected, and improved
Define and champion SLO/SLI frameworks and error budget-based decision making
Own observability strategy across services, including metrics, logs, traces, and alerting
Lead capacity planning, load testing, and resilience/chaos testing
Establish production readiness reviews and improve testing and release procedures
Eliminate toil through automation, self-healing systems, and improved observability
Gather and analyze operating-system and application metrics for performance tuning and fault finding
Improve platform reliability through Terraform and Kubernetes configuration
Own and evolve incident response, including severity definitions, escalation paths, and postmortems
Participate in on-call rotations and provide hands-on incident support
Troubleshoot infrastructure and application issues and drive blameless root-cause analysis
Champion reliability, scalability, and security standards across services and the product platform
Inform architecture decisions and identify reliability risks before launch
Define reliability standards and track service compliance
Provide technical mentorship and thought leadership to DevOps and Software Engineers
Foster operational excellence, knowledge sharing, and continuous learning

Requirements

What you’ll need

Proven track record running SLO/error budget programs and incident management for large-scale production systems
Deep experience with observability platforms (e.g., Datadog) and alert design
Working proficiency with Terraform and Kubernetes on AWS
Comfortable reading, reviewing, and contributing infrastructure code
Strong scripting/programming skills (e.g., Python, Go) for automation and tooling
Preferred: Hands-on experience using or building agentic AI tools (e.g., Claude Code, MCP-based integrations) to automate engineering or operational workflows, with appropriate guardrails and human oversight

Benefits

Comp & perks

Paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick)
Medical, dental, and vision insurance
401(k)
Eligibility to participate in long-term incentive programs
5% travel compensation context stated for the role