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Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Infra Ops

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Base Salary

$153k - $205k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, secure, troubleshoot, and operate highly available Kubernetes platforms across hybrid and public-cloud environments.
  • Create reusable Terraform modules and automated, reviewable infrastructure delivery workflows.
  • Develop maintainable backend services, internal tools, and operational automation in Go, Python, or JavaScript/TypeScript.
  • Partner with platform, product, application engineering, and Security teams to design reliable, performant, secure, and cost-effective solutions.
  • Improve CI/CD, deployment automation, progressive delivery, and operational ownership across the production lifecycle.
  • Define observability practices covering metrics, logs, traces, alerting, and dashboards.
  • Participate in on-call, lead incident response, perform root-cause analysis, and drive blameless postmortems and corrective actions.
  • Establish and operate SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, capacity plans, disaster-recovery tests, and resilience improvements.
  • Apply AI-assisted and data-driven operational techniques to improve detection, reduce alert noise, and accelerate troubleshooting.
  • Contribute through code reviews, documentation, knowledge sharing, mentoring, and team development.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, Infrastructure Engineering, or a closely related software engineering role supporting production systems.
  • Deep hands-on experience designing, operating, securing, and troubleshooting Kubernetes clusters and containerized workloads at scale.
  • Strong Terraform experience, including reusable modules, state and environment management, and automated infrastructure delivery.
  • Production software-development experience in Go, Python, or JavaScript/TypeScript for backend services, tooling, and automation.
  • Demonstrated success improving the reliability, performance, scalability, or cost efficiency of distributed production systems.
  • Experience with cloud infrastructure, networking, IAM, DNS, load balancing, routing, service networking, and secure connectivity.
  • Strong observability and troubleshooting skills involving metrics, logs, traces, alerting, and incident data.
  • Experience with SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, incident management, postmortems, and disaster-recovery practices.
  • Familiarity with CI/CD, GitOps or deployment automation, and canary or blue-green deployment strategies.
  • Security-minded approach and experience partnering with Security and engineering teams in regulated or high-availability environments.
  • Clear written and verbal communication, strong ownership, and sound judgment balancing speed, risk, and operational excellence.
  • Experience applying AI-assisted tooling to engineering or operations workflows is a plus.

Benefits

  • Remote work arrangement, indicated by the #LI-Remote designation.
  • Base compensation range of $152,500-$205,000, with starting pay determined by experience, skills, qualifications, and organizational factors.
  • Inclusive equal-opportunity workplace with interview accommodations available for candidates with disabilities.

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