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Ridgeline

Senior Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering

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about 2 hours ago
New York, NY, USASenior / Mid Level
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Base Salary

$153k - $210k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Improve the reliability, availability, and performance of Ridgeline's production SaaS platform.
  • Build automation to increase engineering velocity and reduce operational toil.
  • Own and enhance production observability through metrics and alerting.
  • Design and improve CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
  • Define and improve Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and Service Level Objectives (SLOs).
  • Identify capacity constraints and reliability risks proactively.
  • Participate in on-call rotation and coordinate incident response.
  • Lead blameless postmortems to strengthen platform resilience.
  • Collaborate with software engineers on infrastructure design.
  • Develop Infrastructure as Code solutions using Terraform.
  • Foster a culture of ownership and continuous improvement across the engineering organization.

Requirements

  • 3–6 years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or related fields.
  • At least 2 years supporting mission-critical production SaaS workloads on AWS.
  • Experience operating production systems where uptime and reliability are critical.
  • Hands-on experience with AWS services like EC2, ECS, RDS, and CloudWatch.
  • Strong understanding of observability practices including monitoring and alerting.
  • Experience designing CI/CD pipelines using tools like GitHub Actions or CircleCI.
  • Familiarity with deployment strategies such as blue/green or canary.
  • Proficiency in Python, Go, Bash, or similar scripting languages.
  • Experience implementing Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.
  • Comfortable participating in on-call rotations and leading incident responses.
  • Excellent communication skills for explaining technical concepts to diverse stakeholders.
  • Demonstrated ability to improve platform reliability and operational efficiency.
  • Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills with a passion for solving technical challenges.
  • Collaborative mindset with a desire to learn and mentor others.

Benefits

  • Unlimited vacation policy.
  • Educational and wellness reimbursements.
  • $0 cost employee insurance plans.
  • Participation in the Company Stock Plan.

Tech Stack

AWSBashBuildkiteCircleCIGitHub ActionsGoHelmKubernetesNode.jsPythonTerraformTypeScript

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