Senior Software Engineer, Site Reliability
Senior SRE measures software performance, defines SLOs/SLAs, optimizes infrastructure with Temporal/Kubernetes/AWS, handles on-call, and improves developer experience/scalability for growing B2B workflows. Requires 5+ years SRE/DevOps experience.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Monitor core business-logic software via on-call and non-urgent situations, define SLOs/SLAs.
- Extend and monitor infrastructure stack for business-critical B2B usage.
- Maintain mental and reified models of systems for risk estimation, project planning, and debugging.
- Collaborate with engineering team and leadership on site reliability expertise.
- Work on core orchestration logic using Temporal to run thousands of workflows.
- Advise on major backend projects from planning to release.
- Optimize services for scalability, stability, and observability.
- Improve developer experience, engineering processes, especially with LLM coding agents.
Requirements
- 5+ years of SRE, DevOps, or Platform engineering experience.
- Proven record building efficient, performant, extensible systems.
- Experience with quantitative metrics, SLOs/SLAs, navigating tradeoffs.
- Familiarity with containerization/orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes), Linux, backend services.
- Experience implementing/managing AWS infrastructure.
- Strong communicator, team player.
Nice to Haves
- Experience with Temporal.
- Building AI platforms/tooling.
- Kubernetes/Helm (Amazon EKS).
- IaaS tools for production cloud.
- Managing CI/CD pipelines, developer experience.
- Cloud storage/data modeling products.
- Early stage startups.
Compensation
Salary Range: $180,000 - $200,000 (SF/NY base, plus equity, health benefits).
Skills
Temporal, Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, Amazon Eks, Linux, CI/CD, Helm, SLOs, Slas
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