Senior Software Engineer – Site Reliability

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. Design, write, review, test, and ship software improving service availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency .

Posted 11/2/2026full-timeRemote • CanadaSenior💰 CA$180,000 - CA$220,000 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in software development, automation, and distributed systems, with a strong focus on improving service availability and operational efficiency. Proficient in monitoring, debugging, and implementing solutions in complex environments.

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Software DevelopmentAutomation ImplementationDistributed Systems TroubleshootingLinux FundamentalsObservability Tools

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Hard Skills

Software EngineeringAutomationDistributed SystemsDebuggingCapacity PlanningSLO DefinitionCode ReviewTestingInfrastructure as CodeObservability

Soft Skills

LeadershipCollaborationProblem-Solving

Tools & Technologies

GitTerraformAnsiblePrometheusGrafanaGoPythonRustC/C++Linux

Certifications & Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree in Software EngineeringBachelor's Degree in Computer Science

Industry Keywords

Service AvailabilityScalabilityLatencyEfficiencyOn-Call RotationCritical Incident ResponseAnycast NetworksVPN Protocols

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AnsibleDistributed SystemsDNSGrafanaLinuxPrometheusPythonRustTerraformC++Go

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Design, write, review, test, and ship software improving service availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency
Automate repeated operational tasks, checklists, and validations
Define SLOs with stakeholders and build monitoring and alerting to enforce them
Debug production issues across application code, Linux, and networks
Lead blameless postmortems and root cause analyses
Implement fixes that eliminate entire classes of problems
Plan capacity and costs using data
Document systems and software for operational use
Participate in the critical incident response team through an established on-call rotation
Learn and operate infrastructure involving globally scaled DNS, anycast networks, and VPN protocols

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering or Computer Science or similar
5+ years of professional software development in one or more general-purpose languages
Experience personally building automation that eliminated real operational work
Experience designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting distributed systems in production
Git, testing, code review, and CI as a normal workflow
Comfortable working in a large codebase you did not write
Solid Linux fundamentals, containers, and infrastructure as code (Terraform, Ansible, or equivalents)
Experience building observability into code using Prometheus, Grafana, or equivalents
Go preferred; Python, Rust, and C/C++ are also applicable
Participation in an established on-call rotation is required
Not primarily systems administration, NOC, or infrastructure operations experience
Not primarily advisory observability and reliability experience without software built to act on signals

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