# Senior Software Engineer - SRE

**Company:** [Socure](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/socure)
**Location:** Carson City, NV, San Francisco, CA, Seattle, WA, New York, NY
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Salary:** $160k – $180k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, Amazon Eks, Go, Python, CI/CD, GitHub Actions, Argo CD, Datadog
**Posted:** 2026-06-03

> As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you will own the end-to-end reliability and scalability of AWS infrastructure and Kubernetes platforms. This role involves designing, operating, and continuously improving production systems with a strong focus on automation and observability.

## Job Description

## What You’ll Own
* End-to-end ownership of highly available, scalable AWS infrastructure
* Design, operation, and continuous improvement of Kubernetes (EKS) platforms
* Reliability of production systems through strong observability, automation, and SLOs
* CI/CD systems that enable safe, fast, and repeatable deployments
* Infrastructure defined and enforced through Terraform and GitOps
* Incident response, root cause analysis, and long-term remediation
* Raising operational standards through automation, documentation, and best practices

## Technical Requirements:
We’re looking for engineers who have actually built, run, and scaled real production systems in the following areas:

### Cloud & Infrastructure
* Deep AWS expertise - networking, compute, IAM, scaling, security
* Strong experience managing infrastructure using Terraform at scale

### Kubernetes & Platform Engineering
* Very strong Kubernetes fundamentals (internals, scheduling, networking, storage)
* Hands-on experience operating Amazon EKS in production environments
* Experience troubleshooting complex, multi-layer Kubernetes issues

### Coding & Automation
* Ability to write clean, maintainable, production-quality code in: Go/ Python
* Strong automation mindset — eliminating toil through code

### CI/CD & GitOps
* Proven experience building and operating CI/CD pipelines
* Hands-on experience with:
    * GitHub (Actions or integrations)
    * ArgoCD and GitOps-based deployment workflows

### Observability & Reliability
* Strong understanding of observability principles: metrics, logs, traces, and alerting
* Hands-on experience with Datadog or similar tool for:
    * Infrastructure and Kubernetes monitoring
    * Application performance monitoring (APM)
    * Alerting, dashboards, and incident detection
* Experience defining and using SLIs/SLOs to drive reliability decisions
* Ability to turn observability data into actionable operational improvements

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