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DAT Freight & AnalyticsDAT Freight & AnalyticsDenver, CO

Staff Site Reliability Engineer

Lead major reliability initiatives, mentor SRE engineers, and drive Infrastructure-as-Code and cloud modernization as a Staff Site Reliability Engineer on the SRE platform team. Requires 10+ years industry experience including software engineering, strong leadership, AWS, observability tools, and on-call participation.

148k – 193k/yr
Hybrid10+ YOEDevOps / SRE

About the role

What You’ll Do

  • Collaborate with platform architects and management to ensure reliability targets are met.
  • Advise engineering teams on best practices for measuring reliability and uptime.
  • Assist and respond to critical engineering incidents.
  • Lead and mentor SRE engineers to improve their engineering skills.
  • Provide technical guidance and best practices for use of cloud infrastructure and tooling. Be a driver for Infrastructure-as-Code within the platform.
  • Spearhead major reliability-focused initiatives and projects.
  • Help optimize our work to be customer-focused. Continually seek feedback from our customers on how we can improve.
  • Migrate legacy systems to modern, scalable cloud environments.
  • Help develop and drive a culture of continuous improvement with the Platform Engineering and Software Engineering groups.
  • Participate in an on-call rotation and occasionally act as Incident Commander.

The Skills and Experience You’ll Bring

  • Strong leadership and mentoring abilities, especially with SRE or Platform Engineering/Infrastructure teams.
  • Total of 10+ years industry experience.
  • 3+ years of software engineering experience (JavaScript, Python, Go, Java/Kotlin, C++, etc).
  • Extensive experience with modern observability tools (Datadog preferred).
  • Extensive experience with cloud platforms (preferably AWS).
  • Demonstrated success in leading large technical initiatives, including design, project management and gaining executive buy-in.
  • Proven experience modernizing legacy code and infrastructure.
  • Ability to work closely with peer teams, platform/software architects and management to drive key reliability improvements.
  • Deep understanding of cloud infrastructure, automation, and best practices for reliability.
  • Experience with our tools (Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Terraform, Github Actions) a plus.

Why DAT?

  • Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, and AD&D insurance
  • Parental Leave
  • Up to 20 days of paid time off starting in year one
  • An additional 10 holidays of paid time off per calendar year
  • 401k matching (immediately vested)
  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan
  • Short- and Long-term disability sick leave
  • Flexible Spending Accounts
  • Health Savings Accounts
  • Tuition Reimbursement Program
  • Employee Assistance Program
  • Additional programs - Employee Referral, Internal Recognition, and Wellness
  • Free TriMet transit pass (Beaverton Office)
  • Competitive salary and benefits package
  • Work on impactful projects in a cutting-edge environment
  • Collaborative and supportive team culture
  • Opportunity to make a real difference in the trucking industry
  • Employee Resource Groups

Skills

site reliability engineeringAWSKubernetesTerraformArgo CDGitHub ActionsDatadogPythonGoJavaInfrastructure As CodeObservability

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