Senior SRE

Alpaca

. Operate production systems day-to-day, including on-call, incident response, postmortems, and follow-up actions .

Posted 10/21/2026full-timeRemote • JapanSeniorWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in operating production systems, including incident response and observability, while mentoring engineers on reliability and database fundamentals. Proficient in managing PostgreSQL and Kubernetes within a GitOps workflow, ensuring high availability and performance.

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Production Operations OwnershipKubernetes ExperiencePostgreSQL ExpertiseGitOps WorkflowIncident Response

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Hard Skills

SREDevOpsPlatform EngineeringInfrastructure EngineeringPostgreSQLKubernetesGoPythonLinuxCloud Networking

Soft Skills

Strong Communication

Tools & Technologies

GitOpsObservability StackVPCsDNSTLS

Industry Keywords

SLIsSLOsError BudgetsHA/DRCDC Pipelines

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudDNSKubernetesLinuxPostgresPythonGo

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Operate production systems day-to-day, including on-call, incident response, postmortems, and follow-up actions
Define and refine SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets, and help product teams operate within them
Strengthen observability across metrics, logs, traces, and alerting
Ship cloud resources and Kubernetes workloads through code in a GitOps workflow
Maintain PostgreSQL through performance tuning, schema and migration review, online migrations on large tables, HA/DR, and CDC pipelines
Mentor engineers on reliability and database fundamentals through code review, design review, and pairing

Requirements

What you’ll need

4+ years in SRE, DevOps, Platform/Infrastructure, or backend engineering with significant production operations ownership
Hands-on experience operating production services on Kubernetes
Experience shipping infrastructure as code in a GitOps workflow
Solid working knowledge of PostgreSQL in production, including query plans, pg_stat_*, indexing, schema trade-offs, and safe online migrations on non-trivial tables
Cloud networking fundamentals, including VPCs, routing, L4/L7 load balancing, DNS, and TLS
Comfort debugging cross-service connectivity
Comfortable with a modern observability stack
Proficient with Linux at the operator level
Experience with incident response, structured debugging, and postmortems
At least working proficiency in Go or Python
Strong written and verbal communication
Genuine interest in databases and growing PostgreSQL/DBA expertise

Benefits

Comp & perks

Competitive Salary & Stock Options
Health Benefits
New Hire Home-Office Setup: One-time USD $500
Monthly Stipend: USD $150 per month via a Brex Card