Senior Site Reliability Engineer
We are seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with substantial expertise in enhancing the reliability, availability, performance and scalability of production environments. The right candidate will bring a strong software engineering mindset paired with deep operational know-how, cloud expertise, automation capabilities and practical incident management experience.
This position centers on constructing dependable systems, cutting down operational toil, strengthening observability and supporting engineering teams in delivering services that meet established reliability targets.
Responsibilities
- Architect and deploy solutions that enhance system reliability, availability and performance
- Establish and track SLIs, SLOs and error budgets
- Develop automation that minimizes manual operational effort and repetitive activities
- Enhance monitoring, logging, tracing and alerting capabilities
- Take part in incident response, root cause analysis and postmortems
- Partner with development teams to strengthen service resilience and operability
- Maintain production systems and assist in resolving complex technical problems
- Contribute toward capacity planning, performance tuning and disaster recovery strategies
- Advocate for reliability engineering practices throughout teams
Requirements
- Substantial experience in SRE, DevOps, Platform Engineering or Production Engineering positions
- Practical experience maintaining production systems at scale
- Familiarity with cloud platforms including AWS, Azure or GCP
- Deep knowledge of observability tools used for monitoring, logging, tracing and alerting
- Background in incident management, postmortems and root cause analysis
- Solid scripting or programming abilities in Python, Go, Bash or similar languages
- Familiarity with Linux systems, networking and distributed systems fundamentals
- Working knowledge of containers and orchestration platforms like Docker and Kubernetes
- Sound understanding of CI/CD, automation and Infrastructure as Code
- Excellent problem-solving abilities and capacity to perform under pressure
Nice to have
- Background defining SLIs, SLOs and error budgets
- Familiarity with Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, New Relic, Splunk, ELK or comparable tools
- Hands-on use of Terraform or other IaC tools
- Exposure to chaos engineering or resilience testing
- Background with high-availability systems and disaster recovery planning
- Certifications in cloud technologies or Kubernetes
