Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Description
Responsibilities
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Observability & Alerting: Design and improve monitoring, logging, tracing, dashboards, and SLI/SLOs for production visibility.
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Automation & CI/CD: Build internal tools and delivery pipelines to boost efficiency, eliminate toil, and ensure reliable deployments.
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Reliability & System Quality: Drive continuous improvements in system performance, scalability, and security to mitigate customer impact.
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Incident Management: Lead production incident response from triage to resolution, turning lessons into durable runbooks and preventatives.
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Technical Leadership: Guide major technical initiatives, align cross-team engineering efforts, and manage technical risks.
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Mentorship: Elevate SRE team capability through design reviews, paired problem-solving, and incident post-mortems.
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Operations & On-Call: Join the on-call rotation while leading capacity planning and disaster recovery readiness.
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AI/ML Operationalization: Leverage operational AI/ML tools to forecast capacity risks, detect patterns, and automate system health.
Qualifications
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Experience: 8+ years in software/platform engineering or DevOps, including 5+ years dedicated to Site Reliability Engineering.
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Infrastructure & Observability: Expertise in cloud platforms (AWS), Kubernetes, IaC, and full-stack observability (tracing, logging, SLI/SLOs). Grafana, Datadog, NewRelic
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Automation & Scripting: Proficient in Python, Go, or Bash for building CI/CD pipelines, production tools, and toil-reducing automation.
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Incident Leadership: Proven track record in root cause analysis, high-severity incident response, and long-term reliability engineering.
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Leadership & Mentorship: Strong communication skills with a history of mentoring engineers, leading cross-functional projects, and setting technical strategy.
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Operational AI/ML: Hands-on experience using AI/ML on telemetry data to predict capacity risks, spot anomalies, and optimize system workflows.
Skills
As published by lever · 7 questions · 3 written answers
Basics
Resume/CV, Full name, Email, Phone, Current location, Current company, LinkedIn URL, GitHub URL, Portfolio URL, Other website, What is your age range?, I identify my ethnicity as, Gender, Veteran Status
Pick from a list (4)
- Are you legally authorized to work in the United States?
- Will you now or in the future require sponsorship for employment (H1B, Visa, OPT, etc)?
- Have you personally owned production reliability, including SLIs/SLOs, incident response, and eliminating recurring reliability issues?
- Have you defined and driven reliability or observability standards across multiple engineering teams, rather than primarily implementing standards created by others?
Written answers (3)
- What are your base salary expectations for your next role? Please note that we utilize geographic pay structures based on local market rates, and our final offers factor in total compensation including equity, bonus structures, and benefits.
- What does it mean to reduce toil? Share a specific example and the impact it had
- In context of SRE, what would you define at "5 9's"?
