Site Reliability Engineer
Build and operate self-service datastore infrastructure, embedding provisioning, observability, disaster recovery, compliance, and cost controls into a platform used by product engineering teams. Requires 3+ years in SRE or infrastructure-focused work, production software delivery, and AWS and Kubernetes experience.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Extend self-service datastore platform provisioning automation, guardrails, and paved paths for product engineering teams.
- Build observability, alerting, and backup/disaster recovery into datastore defaults without manual intervention.
- Turn recurring reliability, scaling, and schema-change support work into reusable platform features or AI tooling.
- Codify compliance, capacity management, and cost management into the platform.
- Support operational needs across the production database fleet alongside product engineering teams.
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience as a Site Reliability Engineer or in a similar infrastructure-focused role.
- Direct experience managing production infrastructure or building tooling to support it in AWS and Kubernetes.
- Experience building and delivering working software to production, including tooling, platforms, or product-facing services.
- Strong fluency with AI coding tools such as Claude.
- Legal eligibility to work in Canada; sponsorship is unavailable.
Nice-to-haves
- Experience with RDS, Redis, OpenSearch, or Kubernetes-hosted datastores.
- Experience with observability, alerting, backup, and disaster recovery.
- Experience automating compliance, capacity, and cost management.
Skills
AWS, Kubernetes, Rds, Redis, Opensearch, Datastores, Observability, Alerting, Disaster Recovery, Claude, Infrastructure Automation, Backup
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