11 months ago
San Francisco, CA, USA or New York, NY, USASenior
Base Salary
$180k - $200k/yr
Responsibilities
- Monitor core business-logic software through on-call and non-urgent operational work, documenting behavior and defining SLOs and SLAs.
- Extend and monitor the infrastructure stack supporting business-critical customer usage.
- Maintain system models to estimate risk, plan projects, and debug efficiently.
- Collaborate with engineering teams and company leadership as the site reliability specialist.
- Work on the Temporal-based orchestration logic that runs tens of thousands of workflows concurrently.
- Advise major backend engineering projects during planning and release, joining implementation work as needed.
- Optimize services for scalability, stability, and observability as the customer base and product grow.
- Improve developer experience, engineering processes, and practices, including in the context of LLM coding agents.
- Participate in on-call and improve the company’s technical operations.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or Platform engineering.
- Proven experience building efficient, performant, and extensible systems.
- Experience maintaining quantitative site reliability metrics and exercising judgment around SLO and SLA strictness.
- Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, backend services, and Linux.
- Experience implementing and managing AWS infrastructure.
- Nice to have experience with Temporal.
- Nice to have familiarity with Kubernetes, Helm, and Amazon EKS.
- Nice to have experience implementing and deploying infrastructure-as-a-service tools for production cloud environments.
- Nice to have experience managing CI/CD pipelines for multiple environments and improving developer experience.
- Nice to have experience building AI platforms or tooling and systems behind AI products.
- Nice to have experience building cloud storage or data modeling products and working at early-stage startups.
- Strong communication, collaboration, willingness to ask for help, and willingness to provide support and thoughtful critique.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement with approximately 3 days per week in the NYC or SF office
- Equity and premium health and wellness benefits
About Parabola
Parabola builds an AI-driven workflow builder and agent platform for operations and finance teams to automate recurring, data-heavy processes across spreadsheets, emails, and PDFs. Delivered as a SaaS platform with expert implementation support, it lets non-engineers model, run, and audit tasks like reconciliations, invoice audits, and inventory checks. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco, it is privately held and used by companies such as Flexport, On Running, and Brooklinen.