Site Reliability Engineer
Forward Networks2 months ago
Base Salary
$230k - $250k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define and drive SRE practices, including SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, and engineering frameworks.
- Drive reliability and operational excellence for Forward’s SaaS platform.
- Build and maintain observability infrastructure for logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting.
- Lead incident response through on-call rotations, runbooks, post-mortems, and corrective follow-through.
- Partner with engineering teams on capacity planning, load testing, chaos engineering, and production readiness reviews.
- Help define and build the SRE team as the company scales.
Requirements
- 6+ years of experience in site reliability engineering, DevOps, or infrastructure engineering in a SaaS or cloud environment.
- Proven experience building or significantly maturing an SRE function.
- Strong networking fundamentals, including TCP/IP, DNS, routing, switching, firewalls, and load balancing.
- Hands-on production experience with Kubernetes and container orchestration.
- Deep proficiency with observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or Splunk.
- Strong scripting and automation skills in Python, Bash, or similar technologies.
- Experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure and infrastructure as code using Terraform, Ansible, or equivalent.
- Experience owning and improving incident-response processes, including blameless post-mortems and SLO-driven reliability improvements.
- Clear communication skills with engineering teams, non-technical stakeholders, customer-facing teams, and executives.
- Experience supporting enterprise or federal government customers with high-availability requirements is preferred.
- Experience as a foundational or early SRE hire at a growth-stage company is preferred.
Benefits
- Base pay range of $230,000–$250,000 per year.
Tech Stack
Categories
DevOpsSite Reliability
About Forward Networks
The future of network operations is network modeling. Forward's flagship platform, Forward Enterprise, gives users a mathematically accurate network digital twin. Forward enables perfect network visibility, full path analysis, and security policy verification, freeing up time and saving you money. Get a demo today: www.forwardnetworks.com