Senior Site Reliability Engineer

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. Ensure the reliability, scalability, and performance of critical platforms and services .

Posted 9/30/2026full-timeUnited StatesSenior💰 $95,300 - $158,800 per yearWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates advanced expertise in Terraform and AWS environments, with a strong focus on reliability, scalability, and performance of critical platforms. Proficient in incident response, observability, and automation to enhance service availability and streamline operations.

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Advanced Terraform ExpertiseAWS Environment ManagementIncident Response SkillsBash/Python ScriptingDocker Knowledge

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Hard Skills

TerraformAWSECSRDSALBVPCIAMCloudWatchGitLinux

Soft Skills

CollaborationProblem-SolvingDocumentation

Tools & Technologies

GitHub ActionsAI ServicesOperational RunbooksMonitoring QueriesDeployment Workflows

Industry Keywords

Reliability EngineeringObservabilityService-Level BaselinesDisaster RecoveryCloud Security Best Practices

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudDistributed SystemsDockerDynamoDBLinuxPythonTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Ensure the reliability, scalability, and performance of critical platforms and services
Lead complex reliability initiatives and drive automation to reduce operational toil
Use observability, incident response, and distributed systems expertise to identify and resolve reliability challenges
Design and implement solutions that improve service availability, streamline operations, and enhance system recovery capabilities
Hold a high bar on code quality and flag risks and blockers early
Collaborate with host-function stakeholders to ensure solutions fit real workflows
Support handover and capability-building so solutions remain owned and operable
Create monitoring queries and establish service-level baselines
Support senior engineers during incidents
Contribute to post-mortems and root-cause analyses
Participate in disaster recovery tests
Implement automation and execute code in production environments
Contribute to SRE knowledge documentation
Support deployment, monitoring, and reliability of services integrating AI tools
Support infrastructure topology drawings and deployment workflows
Test availability, reliability, and recoverability in non-production environments

Requirements

What you’ll need

Advanced Terraform expertise, including modules, providers, state management, lifecycle controls, drift detection, safe refactoring, remote state, locking, and cross-stack dependencies
Hands-on experience managing production, multi-account, multi-region AWS environments
Experience with ECS, RDS, ALB, VPC, IAM, Route53, ECR, S3, Lambda, DynamoDB, SQS, Secrets Manager, KMS, and CloudWatch
Experience building and troubleshooting reusable GitHub Actions workflows, OIDC authentication, approval gates, runners, Terraform deployments, application deployments, and migration pipelines
Knowledge of Docker, ECR, ECS task definitions and services, IAM roles, health checks, autoscaling, ALB integration, and deployment rollbacks
Proficiency in AWS networking and security, including VPCs, ALBs, Route53, ACM/TLS, IAM, OIDC, Secrets Manager, KMS, and cloud security best practices
Incident response and observability skills using logs, metrics, alarms, deployment history, root cause analysis, rollback decisions, and operational runbooks
Strong Linux and Git fundamentals
Bash/Python scripting for AWS CLI automation, CI/CD, and operational tooling
Hands-on experience integrating and operating AI services and APIs in production, including monitoring, reliability, and security practices
Ability to support multiple engineering teams, troubleshoot across infrastructure and application layers, document solutions, and enable secure self-service practices

Benefits

Comp & perks

Annual incentive bonus
Country specific benefits
Reasonable accommodation and adjustment support during hiring