# Staff Site Reliability Engineer

**Company:** [Tabs](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/tabs)
**Location:** New York, NY
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Salary:** $200k – $250k/yr
**Experience:** 10+ years
**Skills:** AWS, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions, CI/CD, Slo, Sli, Observability, Distributed Systems, Incident Response, Terraform
**Posted:** 2026-02-24

> 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.

## Job Description

## 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

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