Senior Site Reliability Engineer

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. Own the reliability of core production systems end to end .

Posted 9/18/2026full-timeRemote • United StatesSenior💰 $152,000 - $205,000 per yearWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) with a focus on managing production systems, defining SLIs and SLOs, and implementing effective incident response strategies. Proficient in cloud infrastructure management, particularly with AWS, and skilled in programming and observability tooling to enhance system reliability and performance.

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Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)Incident Response LeadershipCloud Infrastructure Management (AWS)Programming Skills (Go, Python)

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Hard Skills

SLIs and SLOs DefinitionError Budget PracticesLoad TestingCapacity PlanningDistributed SystemsContainerization (EKS/Kubernetes)Observability Tooling (Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana)Redis/ElastiCache ManagementSoftware Engineering Best PracticesAI Tools for Incident Investigation

Soft Skills

Strong Written CommunicationStrong Verbal CommunicationPersonal OwnershipPragmatism

Industry Keywords

Cloud-Based EnvironmentsProduction EngineeringHigh-Throughput SystemsLow-Latency EnvironmentsOn-Call Rotation

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudDistributed SystemsGrafanaKubernetesPrometheusPythonRedisTerraformGo

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own the reliability of core production systems end to end
Define and maintain SLIs and SLOs, dashboards, alerts, and error-budget practices
Improve alert quality and anomaly/correctness detection
Lead incident response, restore service, and write actionable postmortems
Build secure, resilient, and cost-efficient infrastructure with explicit failure-mode handling
Perform load testing, profiling, saturation analysis, and capacity planning
Improve change safety through progressive delivery, automated rollback, pre-production signals, and safe deployment practices
Manage infrastructure through code and configuration, primarily using Terraform
Design, write, and ship software and developer-facing tooling
Run game days and chaos exercises
Partner with product engineering teams on production readiness, capacity, failure modes, rollback plans, runbooks, and on-call handoff
Participate in and improve the on-call rotation
Apply a security lens to engineering work and peer reviews
Serve as the go-to person for difficult production problems and mentor engineers through code review, pairing, and design feedback

Requirements

What you’ll need

6–10 years of experience in SRE, production engineering, infrastructure, or backend engineering within primarily cloud-based environments (AWS preferred)
Track record of owning a system end to end
Hands-on experience defining and operating against SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets
Experience leading or serving as a primary responder on high-severity, customer-facing incidents
Depth in distributed-systems failure modes in high-throughput, low-latency environments
Depth in cloud infrastructure fundamentals, including networking, load balancing, containerization (EKS/Kubernetes), and distributed systems
Strong hands-on experience managing infrastructure through code and configuration (Terraform or equivalent)
Solid programming skills in Go, Python, or a comparable language
Fluency with observability tooling such as Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, or OpenTelemetry
Hands-on experience operating Redis/ElastiCache in production, including cluster/shard management, failover behavior, memory eviction policies, and scaling strategies
Fluency with software engineering best practices, including source control, code review, comprehensive test coverage, and safe deployment
High level of personal ownership and autonomy, with experience working without clearly defined requirements
Pragmatism in balancing reliability and delivery
Strong written and verbal communication in English
AI-native use of AI tools for incident investigation, telemetry analysis, runbooks, and tooling
Must be authorized to work from the home location
Visa sponsorship is not provided

Benefits

Comp & perks

100% remote work
Ability to join the workforce from almost any country, subject to country restrictions
Visa sponsorship is not provided
Inclusive work environment
CCPA and GDPR notices for applicable residents