Rootly

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

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over 3 years ago
Toronto, CanadaSenior

Responsibilities

  • Embed with product teams to improve service observability, reliability, performance, and scalability.
  • Own CI/CD pipelines, observability tooling, monitoring systems, and incident response processes.
  • Build production-grade software, tools, and automation to reduce manual toil and improve developer experience and system reliability.
  • Architect and scale infrastructure while driving capacity planning and operational excellence.
  • Define and manage SLOs and error budgets with engineering teams responsible for production services.
  • Identify and address cross-cutting reliability, performance, and scaling concerns at the code and systems level.

Requirements

  • Require 5+ years of experience in an SRE, platform, or infrastructure engineering role.
  • Require 5+ years of experience writing software in a production environment.
  • Strong knowledge of cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, reliability practices, observability, performance tuning, and scaling strategies.
  • Deep familiarity with incident response, monitoring, and CI/CD systems.
  • Hands-on experience supporting web or RPC services at meaningful scale.
  • Ability to write production-grade software to solve infrastructure problems rather than relying on shell scripts alone.
  • Preferred: experience embedding with product teams and influencing design and architecture decisions.
  • Preferred: experience with Ruby and Go, a systems-level mindset, and ownership of complex problems.

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation and early equity at a venture-backed company.
  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage.
  • Three weeks of vacation, unlimited sick and mental health days, and a company-wide end-of-year shutdown.
  • Home office setup stipend.
  • Unlimited token usage and access to AI tools.
  • High-impact, fast-moving environment with significant ownership and leadership influence.

Tech Stack

GoRuby

Categories

Site Reliability
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About Rootly

51-200 employees
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