# Senior Software Engineer, Site Reliability

**Company:** [Parabola](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/parabola)
**Location:** New York, NY, San Francisco, CA
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Salary:** $180k – $200k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Temporal, Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, Amazon Eks, Linux, CI/CD, Helm, SLOs, Slas
**Posted:** 2025-10-28

> 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.

## Job Description

## 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).

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