Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Senior Site Reliability Engineer responsible for operating and improving large-scale distributed systems, infrastructure, reliability, and incident response. Requires 5+ years of SRE or DevOps experience plus programming and container orchestration expertise.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with internal teams to identify instability in distributed systems and drive operational excellence.
- Support core infrastructure by understanding, diagnosing, and debugging production systems.
- Provide system design consulting, develop software platforms and frameworks, and conduct launch reviews and root cause analyses.
- Maintain and document sustainable postmortem and incident response practices.
- Implement changes that improve reliability, scalability, and engineering velocity.
- Reduce toil through iterative development of tooling and automation.
- Collaborate with engineering teams to release new features and build expertise in supported services.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in site reliability engineering or DevOps for a product with millions of users.
- Experience identifying and resolving issues in large-scale distributed systems.
- Experience with Java, Kotlin, Python, or Go.
- Understanding of containerization and container orchestration technologies, such as Docker, Mesos, Kubernetes, or Nomad.
Nice-to-haves
- Experience improving automation and tooling to reduce service-maintenance toil.
- Experience driving improvements to incident response processes.
- Experience assessing reliability and troubleshooting Dynamo, MySQL, and/or PostgreSQL databases.
Compensation
- Base salary range: $182,800–$247,300 USD.
- Equity compensation supplements the base salary.
Skills
Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, Distributed Systems, Java, Kotlin, Python, Go, Docker, Kubernetes, Mesos, Nomad, Dynamo, MySQL, Postgres
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