Staff Site Reliability Engineer

Key Responsibilities

• Own reliability, availability, and operational excellence for production systems, including observability, incident response, deployment, and rollback systems.
• Improve production readiness for services, migrations, and infrastructure changes.
• Develop software that pushes the state of the art in performance, automation, observability, and other areas.
• Scale systems running on dense, latest-generation, bare-metal servers in our own colocation facilities.
• Reduce toil through automation, tooling, and thoughtful engineering practices.
• Partner with engineers across all teams to help design services with strong operational characteristics.
• Lead incident reviews and turn contributing factors into concrete engineering improvements.
• Perform capacity planning and cost management across compute, storage, database, and networking workloads.
• Manage various vendor relationships to ensure high quality services at reasonable TCO.
• Mentor engineers on reliability, operability, debugging, and distributed systems practices.
• Help define a culture of operational excellence across the organization.

Requirements

• 10+ years experience operating high-scale production systems, including bare metal.
• Strong fundamentals in Linux, networking, storage, databases, and distributed systems.
• Experience building and operating high-scale systems where correctness, latency, throughput, and availability were critical.
• Ability to write production-quality software in Go.
• Comfortable debugging across application code, operating systems, databases, networks, and hardware.
• Experience with observability systems, alert design, incident response, capacity planning, Kubernetes, and production automation.
• Experience working on very small, fast-moving teams at a startup.
• Alignment with the AT Protocol mission.

Nice-to-Haves

• Interest in contributing to an open social network.

Compensation

• Anticipated base salary range: $200,000 - $270,000 USD, excluding equity.
• Equity will be considered in the total compensation package.
• Final base salary based on geographic location, experience level, skill set, training, licenses and certifications.
• Health, dental, and vision insurance offered.
• Fully remote with required overlap of working hours with PST and willingness to travel to team meetups once every 3-4 months.