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Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Linux Systems & Application Observability

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21 hours ago

Base Salary

$180k - $200k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Build self-healing, fault-tolerant infrastructure and internal tooling to automate operational work and reduce toil.
  • Analyze and improve observability coverage across telemetry, logging, and alerting systems.
  • Own scalability initiatives for the HashiCorp Nomad service fabric, including capacity planning, load testing, and bottleneck identification.
  • Extend Prometheus, Honeycomb, and OpenTelemetry instrumentation to expose critical failure modes.
  • Define SLOs, error budgets, and multi-window burn-rate alerting for critical brokerage workflows.
  • Mentor engineers and help establish a site reliability culture across teams.
  • Support Ruby, Java, and Elixir services and contribute to production on-call and incident-management practices.

Requirements

  • Hands-on experience designing and shipping fault-tolerant, self-healing distributed systems.
  • Deep understanding of distributed systems, Linux systems, cloud-native architectures, or containerization.
  • Experience identifying gaps in observability and telemetry systems and improving instrumentation and alerting.
  • Track record of scaling systems under production load through capacity planning and architectural analysis.
  • Hands-on experience with OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, and Grafana, including direct service instrumentation.
  • Strong Linux internals and networking knowledge, including TCP/IP, UDP/multicast, packet capture, and flow analysis.
  • Production on-call experience and comfort establishing blameless post-incident review processes.
  • Working knowledge of SLOs and error budgets; HashiCorp Nomad, Consul, or Vault experience is a plus.
  • Strong programming skills in Python, Ruby, Java, or a similar language.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work in Chicago with three days per week in the office.
  • Performance bonuses and stock purchase options.
  • Medical, vision, dental, 401(k), paid vacation, and paid sick leave.
  • Gym membership reimbursement, in-building gym, commuter benefits, pet insurance, and wellness and mental health programs.
  • Charitable donation matching and two paid volunteer days off.
  • Daily catered lunch, kitchen snacks and beverages, and shuttle service to and from Metra.

Tech Stack

ConsulElixirGrafanaJavaLinuxPrometheusPythonRubyVault

Categories

DevOpsSite Reliability
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