# Senior Site Reliability Engineer

**Company:** [Drata](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/drata)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Experience:** 6+ years
**Skills:** Terraform, Datadog, Aws Ecs Fargate, Kubernetes, Docker, Python, Bash, GitHub Actions, Linux, MySQL, SLOs, Slis, CI/CD, Observability, Git
**Posted:** 2026-04-27

> Senior SRE partners with a product team to architect reliable systems, define SLOs/SLIs, eliminate toil via automation, and build shared platform tooling on AWS. Requires 6+ years experience with Terraform, Datadog, container orchestration, Python/Bash, and AI familiarity.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities

### Reliability Architecture for Your Product Team
- Engage early in architecture reviews and design discussions to surface risks
- Lead Production Readiness Reviews (PRRs) before new services launch
- Partner with product engineering leads to define SLOs and SLIs for critical services
- Participate in team planning and architecture reviews
- Build reusable artifacts like SLO templates, observability checklists, alerting standards, reference dashboards

### Eliminating Toil Through Engineering
- Build and maintain Datadog monitors, dashboards, and alert routing using Terraform
- Handle infrastructure requests: ECS task management, secret rotations, Terraform changes, capacity adjustments
- Identify repeated manual work and convert to self-service tooling or runbooks
- Audit existing services for reliability anti-patterns

### Central SRE Platform Work
- Design and build shared platform infrastructure: reusable Terraform modules, standardized observability stacks, service templates
- Participate in on-call rotation, lead incident response, conduct post-incident reviews
- Design and manage CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions
- Contribute to evolving SRE standards, tooling, and practices

## Requirements
- 6+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Cloud Engineering, or building scalable services
- Robust knowledge of Terraform, Docker, Git, Linux
- Hands-on experience with Datadog for monitoring, alerting, dashboards, SLO tracking, distributed tracing
- Experience building software systems as a software engineer
- Experience developing tooling and automation in Python and/or Bash
- Experience with CI/CD pipeline automation, specifically GitHub Actions
- Experience with disaster recovery practices and incident management
- Strong understanding of observability concepts (monitoring, logging, distributed tracing, metrics)
- Experience with container orchestration: AWS ECS Fargate and/or Kubernetes
- Experience with relational databases (MySQL proficiency a plus)
- Ability to take ownership independently
- AI Experience (at least one): AI-assisted development tools (GitHub Copilot, etc.), AI/AIOps for reliability, operational characteristics of AI/ML services, or passion for AI in infrastructure

## Nice to Have
- Experience with AIOps (AI/ML for anomaly detection, predictive alerting, incident triage)
- Familiarity with reliability of AI/ML-backed services (LLM inference, non-determinism)
- Experience with JavaScript/Node.js ecosystem
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
- Familiarity with compliance frameworks (SOC 2, ISO 27001, NIST)

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