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Site Reliability Engineer

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24 hours ago
Remote, United StatesMid Level / Senior

Base Salary

$87k - $123k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Own operational excellence for assigned systems and services and support cross-team projects.
  • Participate in on-call rotations, respond to incidents, troubleshoot system and deployment issues, and drive resolution.
  • Lead postmortems, perform root cause analysis, and implement preventive measures.
  • Establish service level indicators, monitoring, alerting, and observability for Kubernetes environments, including EKS.
  • Build, maintain, and optimize infrastructure as code across multiple AWS environments.
  • Manage and optimize production EKS clusters for availability, resilience, and scalability.
  • Support releases and implement scalable services using GitOps and progressive delivery practices.
  • Maintain and improve CI/CD pipelines and automation tools to reduce operational toil.
  • Lead capacity planning and right-sizing efforts.
  • Document systems, runbooks, architecture decisions, and system behaviors, and mentor entry-level SREs.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 2–4 years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or Systems Engineering.
  • Experience maintaining high availability and resiliency across AWS services including EKS, EC2, RDS, S3, and VPC.
  • Production experience with Kubernetes and Docker, including deployment, troubleshooting, and optimization.
  • Proficiency with Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar infrastructure-as-code frameworks.
  • Experience with observability platforms and systems and networks supporting incident detection and response.
  • Experience with GitLab CI, Jenkins, or equivalent CI/CD tools.
  • Knowledge of networking fundamentals, troubleshooting, and high-availability architecture patterns.
  • Familiarity with GitOps workflows, incident management, and on-call practices.
  • Experience in financial services or regulated industries is preferred.
  • Familiarity with SOC 2 or PCI DSS is preferred.
  • Experience with Datadog, AppDynamics, New Relic, or similar observability and APM platforms is preferred.
  • Strong programming skills in shell, Go, Python, or similar languages are preferred.
  • Experience supporting Java Spring Boot applications is preferred.
  • Experience with Istio or Linkerd, AWS or Kubernetes certifications, disaster recovery, business continuity planning, and SLO/SLI methodologies is preferred.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance.
  • 401(k) retirement savings plan with company matching contributions up to 6%, financial advisory services, and investment options.
  • Tuition reimbursement up to $5,250 per year.
  • Business-casual environment with an option to wear jeans.
  • Paid time off upon hire, including paid company holidays and floating holidays.
  • 16 hours of paid volunteer time per calendar year.
  • Paid parental leave, paid short- and long-term disability, and Family and Medical Leave programs.
  • Business Resource Groups supporting inclusion and collaboration.
  • Flexible work environment; remote or hybrid employees must provide reliable wired high-speed internet and a suitable home workspace, and may be required to work in the office if requirements are not met.

Tech Stack

AWSDatadogDockerGitLab CI/CDGoIstioJavaJenkinsKubernetesPythonSpring BootTerraform

Categories

Site Reliability
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