Site Reliability Engineer

Ziff Davis

. Maintain a distributed, global ecosystem of thousands of cloud instances, containerized workflows, serverless applications, Linux servers, and associated infrastructure supporting billions of requests daily .

Posted 9/23/2026full-timeRemote • United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $90,000 - $100,000 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in maintaining and supporting distributed cloud ecosystems, with a strong focus on security best practices and operational excellence. Proficient in infrastructure as code, containerization, and database management to ensure high availability and performance.

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Cloud Infrastructure ManagementInfrastructure As CodeContainerization With Docker And KubernetesDatabase Management With MySQL And PostgreSQLSecurity Best Practices

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Hard Skills

MySQLPostgreSQLAWSTerraformCloudFormationDockerKubernetesTypeScriptPythonSQL

Soft Skills

Strong Verbal CommunicationStrong Written CommunicationTime ManagementSelf-Driven Work Ethic

Tools & Technologies

GitGitHubChefAnsibleKinesisKafkaSpark

Industry Keywords

Distributed SystemsCloud InstancesNoSQLData EngineeringBig Data ToolchainsVulnerability RemediationPatch Management

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AnsibleAWSChefCloudDistributed SystemsDockerDynamoDBJavaKafkaKubernetesLinuxMongoDBMySQLNoSQLPHPPostgresPythonRubySparkSQLTerraformTypeScriptGo

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Maintain a distributed, global ecosystem of thousands of cloud instances, containerized workflows, serverless applications, Linux servers, and associated infrastructure supporting billions of requests daily
Maintain transactional database infrastructure using MySQL, PostgreSQL, RDS, and Aurora
Support NoSQL data storage engines such as DynamoDB and MongoDB
Build and support data stream processing with Kinesis or Kafka
Support data engineering and big data toolchains such as Spark
Support production systems in a 24x7x365 environment, including on-call responsibilities
Provide architectural and operational support to software engineers
Support software and data engineering teams and guide operational best practices
Implement and oversee security programs including vulnerability remediation, patch management, IDS/IPS, penetration testing, and coordination with the corporate InfoSec team
Support development-to-production code deployment pipelines for production applications
Provide tooling and guidance for monitoring and observability best practices
Assist development teams with troubleshooting

Requirements

What you’ll need

4+ years of systems/platform engineering experience
Experience building globally-distributed systems
Strong understanding of security best practices
Infrastructure as Code experience with Terraform and CloudFormation
Branching and merge-based source code configuration management with Git and GitHub
Configuration management experience with Chef or Ansible
Experience with container-based architectures including Docker and Kubernetes
Proficiency in one or more high-level programming languages such as TypeScript, Go, Python, PHP, Ruby, or Java
Experience with AWS and other cloud infrastructure platforms
Comfortable writing SQL queries and analyzing query performance
Comfortable learning and working with new technologies in an ever-changing environment
Strong verbal and written communication skills
Strong time management skills and a self-driven work ethic

Benefits

Comp & perks

Flexible work environment
Individuality, fun, and talent valued equally