Staff Site Reliability Engineer

Responsibilities

• Build, operate, and troubleshoot production Kubernetes/EKS clusters.
• Perform Kubernetes upgrades, node rollouts, and cluster maintenance.
• Build and manage AWS infrastructure, including VPCs, networking, subnets, load balancers, IAM, EKS, databases, and storage.
• Define and maintain infrastructure using Terraform.
• Build and operate CI/CD and deployment infrastructure.
• Troubleshoot production issues across Kubernetes, AWS, Linux, networking, and databases.
• Build monitoring, alerting, and observability for critical infrastructure.
• Participate in on-call rotations and respond to production incidents.
• Identify and solve infrastructure scaling and reliability problems.
• Automate operational work using Python, Go, or similar languages.
• Help expand infrastructure across new regions and deployment environments.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience as a Site Reliability Engineer, Platform Engineer, DevOps, Production Engineer, or equivalent infrastructure professional.
• Strong hands-on experience operating Kubernetes, including production cluster management rather than only deploying applications to existing clusters.
• Experience managing Kubernetes/EKS upgrades and production clusters.
• Strong AWS fundamentals, including VPCs, public/private subnets, networking, load balancers, EKS, IAM, and databases.
• Production experience with Terraform or similar infrastructure-as-code tooling.
• Experience owning or maintaining CI/CD and deployment systems such as Argo CD, Spinnaker, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, or Jenkins.
• Experience diagnosing production infrastructure and networking problems.
• Experience solving meaningful scaling or reliability challenges.
• U.S. person status and the ability to access controlled or restricted information as required for the position.

Nice-to-haves

• Helm and GitOps experience.
• Datadog or similar observability tooling.
• PostgreSQL/database operations experience.
• Multi-region infrastructure experience.
• On-premises or disconnected deployment experience.
• Streaming or high-throughput distributed systems experience.

Compensation and Benefits

• Annual base salary: $240,000-$300,000.
• Equity in the form of stock options.
• Comprehensive benefits package, including group health insurance plans.
• Paid vacation time, sick leave, holiday pay, and a 401(k) savings plan.
• Relocation assistance may be available for eligible roles.