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Ethos

Staff Site Reliability Engineer

Ethos

. Define and drive multi-quarter technical strategy for reliability, infrastructure, and platform tooling .

Posted 10/30/2026full-timeRemote • United StatesLead💰 $156,000 - $275,000 per yearWebsite

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Demonstrates extensive experience in leading complex infrastructure initiatives, implementing reliability best practices, and driving technical strategy across teams. Proficient in AWS, Kubernetes, and Terraform, with a strong focus on system reliability, observability, and cost optimization.

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10+ Years Software Engineering ExperienceStrong Coding Skills in Golang, Python, or TypeScriptDeep Experience with AWS, Kubernetes, and TerraformHands-On Experience Implementing SLIs/SLOsExcellent Written and Verbal Communication

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Hard Skills
Software EngineeringInfrastructure DesignReliability EngineeringDistributed SystemsCI/CD SystemsObservability ToolingIncident ResponseCapacity PlanningDisaster RecoveryError Budgets
Soft Skills
MentoringMotivating TeamsBuilding ConsensusJudgment in Balancing Reliability and CostCommunication
Tools & Technologies
AWSTerraformKubernetesGitOpsArgoCDAtlantisDataDogPostgreSQLCI/CD PipelinesMonitoring and Alerting Tools
Industry Keywords
SREPlatform EngineeringDevOpsProduction SystemsTechnical StrategyBlameless Post-MortemsSystemic Engineering ToilSecurity and Regulatory RequirementsModel RoutingCost Optimization

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
AWSCloudDistributed SystemsKubernetesPostgresPythonTerraformTypeScriptGo

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Define and drive multi-quarter technical strategy for reliability, infrastructure, and platform tooling
  • Lead design of complex, cross-cutting infrastructure systems and review technical specifications and architecture proposals
  • Motivate product engineering teams to adopt reliability best practices and advise on production readiness
  • Mentor SREs across US and Bangalore teams through design reviews, pairing, and code review
  • Establish frameworks for SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets and help teams instrument and monitor them
  • Serve as senior technical leader during high-severity incidents and drive blameless post-mortems
  • Lead capacity planning, disaster recovery, and failure-mode testing
  • Evolve monitoring and alerting strategy
  • Design, build, and operate AWS infrastructure using Terraform, Kubernetes, and GitOps workflows with ArgoCD and Atlantis
  • Architect governed AI gateways for model routing, access controls, audit trails, and secure data connectors
  • Ensure infrastructure meets security and regulatory requirements through automated scanning, PII guardrails, and scoped data access
  • Lead cloud cost optimization, LLM token metering and budgeting, and cost-aware model routing
  • Build internal tools, CI/CD pipelines, and self-service platforms
  • Identify and automate systemic sources of engineering toil

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • 10+ years of full-time software engineering experience in relevant roles (SRE, Infrastructure, Platform, DevOps, or Backend SWE), including significant time operating production systems at scale
  • Track record of leading complex, multi-team infrastructure or reliability initiatives from ambiguity to delivery and influencing technical direction beyond the immediate team
  • Strong coding skills in Golang, Python, or TypeScript
  • Commitment to engineering best practices, including design patterns, code reviews, and testing
  • Deep, hands-on experience with AWS, Kubernetes, and Terraform
  • Strong understanding of distributed systems, PostgreSQL, CI/CD systems, and observability tooling such as DataDog
  • Hands-on experience implementing SLIs/SLOs, leading incident response, and running effective post-mortems
  • Excellent written and verbal communication
  • Ability to write clear design documents, explain trade-offs to executives, and build consensus across teams
  • Strong desire to remove toil from systems and judgment to balance reliability, velocity, and cost

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • US benefits details available at https://www.ethoslife.com/careers/
  • Bonus, equity, and benefits are applicable but excluded from the listed base salary
  • Full-time employment
  • Remote work arrangement