Senior Site Reliability Engineer – Volcano

Kong Inc.

. Define and drive SLOs, error budgets, and incident response practices for all Volcano services .

Posted 9/24/2026full-timeRemote • United StatesSenior💰 $150,000 - $170,000 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in defining SLOs, incident response practices, and building multi-region Kubernetes infrastructure. Proficient in deployment automation and hardening of PostgreSQL clusters, with a strong focus on integrating reliability and compliance into architecture.

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Kubernetes ExpertiseSRE/Platform Engineering ExperienceDeployment Automation with ArgoCD and TerraformPostgreSQL Cluster Design and HardeningMonitoring with Datadog and Prometheus

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Hard Skills

SLO DefinitionIncident Response PracticesMulti-Region Kubernetes InfrastructureDeployment AutomationPostgreSQL ClustersRedis CachingCanary PipelinesService MeshAutoscalingSecurity Hardening

Soft Skills

CollaborationCommunication

Tools & Technologies

ArgoCDHelmTerraformDatadogPrometheusGrafana

Certifications & Qualifications

BS in Computer Science

Industry Keywords

SREPlatform EngineeringPaaSSaaSDeveloper-Facing Platforms

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

GrafanaKubernetesPostgresPrometheusRedisTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Define and drive SLOs, error budgets, and incident response practices for all Volcano services
Design and build multi-region Kubernetes infrastructure, networking, and data plane
Establish deployment automation, canary pipelines, and preview environment provisioning using ArgoCD, Helm, and Terraform/Terragrunt
Design, operate, and harden multi-tenant PostgreSQL clusters, Redis caching layers, and object storage
Instrument Volcano services with meaningful SLIs and build dashboards, alerts, and runbooks using Datadog, Prometheus, and Grafana
Collaborate with the OCTO team, product engineering, and security to integrate reliability and compliance into the architecture
Evaluate architectural options for edge runtimes, serverless compute, vector databases, and AI-native infrastructure components

Requirements

What you’ll need

BS in Computer Science or equivalent
Substantial experience at Staff or Principal IC level in SRE/Platform Engineering
Proven track record building SRE or platform engineering practices for developer-facing platforms or PaaS/SaaS products
Kubernetes expertise, including multi-tenant cluster design, networking (CNI, service mesh, ingress), autoscaling, and security hardening

Benefits

Comp & perks

Healthcare benefits
401(k) plan
Short- and long-term disability benefits
Basic life and AD&D insurance
Additional rewards for eligible roles, including sales incentives where applicable