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TabsTabsNew York, NY

Staff Site Reliability Engineer

Leads infrastructure evolution, CI/CD, observability, and reliability for scaling platform. Requires 10+ years SRE/infra experience, AWS expertise, and systems thinking. Onsite in NYC.

200k – 250k/yr
On-site10+ YOEDevOps / SRE

About the role

What You’ll Own

  • AWS infrastructure direction and platform evolution, including migration from ECS/Fargate toward modern, scalable runtime
  • CI/CD systems emphasizing developer experience, safety, and automation (GitHub Actions; maturing CD)
  • Ephemeral environments and preview deploys
  • Observability standards (metrics, logs, tracing, alert hygiene, dashboards, SLO development)
  • Incident response, postmortems, and reliability culture

What You’ll Do

  • Define and evolve reliability standards, SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets
  • Improve observability, alerting, and incident processes
  • Lead high-severity incidents and drive follow-ups
  • Partner with teams to design resilient, scalable systems
  • Build automation to reduce toil and risk
  • Mentor engineers and influence best practices

Who You Are

  • Run production systems on AWS and lead platform change
  • Think in systems: risk, rollback, blast radius, feedback loops
  • Treat CI/CD and environments as self-serve products
  • Influence through trust and clarity
  • Balance pragmatism with system health
  • Value learning from failure
  • Communicate clearly across teams

Experience

  • 10+ years in SRE, infrastructure, or backend engineering
  • Strong software engineering in modern languages
  • Expertise in distributed systems at scale
  • Deep AWS, observability tooling, CI/CD experience
  • Comfortable with ambiguity

Perks and Benefits

  • Competitive compensation and equity
  • Unlimited PTO
  • Up to 100% employer-covered healthcare
  • Meals provided
  • Parental leave, commuter benefits, 401k

Skills

AWSKubernetesGitHub ActionsCI/CDSloSliObservabilityDistributed SystemsIncident ResponseTerraform

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