Site Reliability Engineer
Build and operate a self-service datastore platform, embedding provisioning, observability, reliability, disaster recovery, compliance, and cost controls into production infrastructure. The role requires at least three years of SRE or infrastructure experience with AWS, Kubernetes, production software delivery, and AI coding tools.
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 every datastore by default.
- 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 the operational needs of a growing database fleet alongside product engineering teams.
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience as a Site Reliability Engineer or in a similar infrastructure-focused role.
- Experience directly managing or building tooling for production infrastructure in AWS and Kubernetes.
- Experience building and delivering software to production, including tooling, platforms, or product-facing services.
- Strong fluency with AI coding tools such as Claude.
- Experience with or interest in databases and datastores such as RDS, Redis, OpenSearch, or Kubernetes-hosted datastores.
Compensation
- National pay range: $87,700–$127,100 CAD annually.
- Some roles may also be eligible for stock options, bonuses, merit increases, or sales commissions.
Skills
AWS, Kubernetes, Amazon Rds, Redis, Opensearch, Datastores, Observability, Alerting, Disaster Recovery, Infrastructure Automation, Claude, Ai Coding Tools
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