Senior Platform & Reliability Engineer

3 months ago

H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$300k - $400k/yr

Responsibilities

Define and operationalize SLOs and SLIs across critical user journeys.
Participate in on-call rotation, improve incident response, lead blameless postmortems, and drive follow-up actions.
Build resilient systems around external dependencies using timeouts, retries, circuit breakers, and fallback strategies.
Develop end-to-end observability with logs, metrics, traces, and dashboards.
Improve deployment safety through CI/CD enhancements, automated rollbacks, canary releases, and feature flags.
Contribute to infrastructure architecture decisions involving serverless, containerized, and managed approaches.
Improve cost visibility and efficiency through request-level attribution, caching, and capacity planning.
Contribute production code, internal platform tooling, system design, and engineering practices.

5+ years building and operating production systems where reliability and scaling are important.
Strong software engineering skills and the ability to build and ship production code.
Experience with AWS or GCP, serverless or event-driven architectures, and at least one container-based approach such as ECS/Fargate, Cloud Run, or Kubernetes.
Understanding of observability, reliability practices, metrics, alerting, tracing, and incident response.
Experience designing resilient systems with external dependencies, including idempotency and circuit breakers.
Ability to communicate technical tradeoffs clearly across engineering domains.
Experience building internal platform abstractions, improving reliability metrics, reducing infrastructure costs, or working in startup and high-growth environments is preferred.

201-500 employees