# Staff Site Reliability Engineer

**Company:** [Skydio](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/skydio)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Salary:** $240k – $300k/yr
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** Kubernetes, amazon eks, AWS, Terraform, CI/CD, argo cd, spinnaker, GitHub Actions, gitlab ci/cd, Jenkins, Linux, Python, Go, Helm, Datadog
**Posted:** 2026-08-13

> Owns and scales production cloud infrastructure across Kubernetes/EKS, AWS, Terraform, CI/CD, networking, and observability. The role requires 8+ years of infrastructure experience, strong Kubernetes operations expertise, and depth in reliability or scaling challenges.

## Job Description

## 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.

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