# Staff Site Reliability Engineer

**Company:** [DAT Freight & Analytics](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/dat-freight-analytics)
**Location:** Denver, CO
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Salary:** $148k – $193k/yr
**Experience:** 10+ years
**Skills:** site reliability engineering, AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Argo CD, GitHub Actions, Datadog, Python, Go, Java, Infrastructure As Code, Observability
**Posted:** 2026-07-16

> 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.

## Job Description

## 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

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