Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Key Responsibilities

• Mentor and evangelize on observability best practices, SLIs/SLOs, and reliability culture across engineering teams.
• Help architect our systems for growth and scale.
• Implement internal tools to automate common developer tasks.
• Perform incident response and debug production issues across the entire stack.
• Design, build, and maintain the core infrastructure used by all of Tulip’s engineering teams.
• Work to automate detection and resolution of recurring issues.

Skills Required

• 5+ years of experience working with open source Observability tools (e.g. LGTM stack)
• Hands-on experience instrumenting distributed systems using OpenTelemetry and managing metrics pipelines with Prometheus at scale.
• Experience working with time-series data, ideally using promQL
• Ability to pick up new languages/frameworks with ease. Currently run Go and Typescript services on Kubernetes.

About You

• Experience building and maintaining stable infrastructure at scale.
• Can reason about systems — their edge cases, failure modes, and life cycles.
• Excited about setting the technical agenda and coming up with novel, broad ideas.
• Can debug complex issues across the entire stack.
• Opinionated about the tools and frameworks that work best.
• Enjoys building for other engineers equally, if not more, than building for a customer.
• Knows what a good SLA looks like, and can teach others how to spot one.
• Can communicate as well as you can code. Understands the value of discussion and work best in a team that champions clear and frequent communication.