Lead Site Reliability Engineer
About The Position
Alloy is hiring a Lead Site Reliability Engineer for its Infrastructure Team, a six-engineer team responsible for a large and growing infrastructure footprint that includes more than 15 Kubernetes clusters, over 100 databases, dozens of services, and complex data organization. The team focuses on making infrastructure reliable, secure, and operable with less manual work by building automated, self-service platforms with strong safety guarantees. Reporting to the Engineering Manager of Infrastructure, this role will design and build systems that automate infrastructure management, reduce operational toil, enable safe self-service changes, and improve the reliability and resilience of infrastructure. The engineer will help evolve systems for deploying and running applications in Kubernetes, contribute to architecture decisions across infrastructure, reliability, and security, and write and review production-quality code. The role participates in on-call rotations, with an emphasis on preventing incidents through better systems. The position has a base salary range of $179,000 to $250,000 and is eligible for stock options and a competitive benefits package. It follows a hybrid work arrangement, with employees expected at the Union Square, Manhattan headquarters Tuesday through Thursday. Many employees work from home on Mondays and Fridays, while some use the office.
Requirements
- 10 or more years of experience in infrastructure, SRE, or software engineering roles.
- Strong software engineering skills and the ability to build systems, not just scripts.
- Experience managing production infrastructure at scale, including cloud and containerized systems.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code, such as Terraform.
- Experience running and troubleshooting distributed systems, including Docker and Kubernetes.
- Experience with observability and debugging tools such as Datadog, CloudWatch, and ELK/EFK.
- Proficiency in at least one programming language, such as Python, Go, or JavaScript.
- Experience participating in on-call rotations and improving systems based on incidents.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills.
Nice To Haves
- Experience running Kubernetes in production at scale.
- Deep familiarity with AWS.
- Experience building internal platforms or developer tooling.
- Background in distributed systems or large-scale data systems.
Responsibilities
- Design and build systems to automate infrastructure management at scale, including provisioning, upgrades, and migrations.
- Reduce operational toil by turning manual processes into reliable, repeatable workflows.
- Build internal tooling and platforms that enable safe self-service changes for other engineers.
- Improve the reliability and resilience of Kubernetes, databases, and services.
- Implement and evolve systems for deploying and running applications in Kubernetes.
- Contribute to architecture decisions across infrastructure, reliability, and security.
- Write and review production-quality code.
- Participate in on-call rotations and build systems that prevent incidents.
Benefits
- Unlimited PTO and flexible work policy.
- Employee stock options.
- Medical, dental, and vision plans with an HSA and monthly employer contribution, plus FSA options.
- 401(k) with 100% match up to 4% of annual employee compensation.
- Eligible new parents receive 16 weeks of paid parental leave.
- Home office stipend for new employees.
- Annual Learning & Development stipend.
- Well-being benefits include access to ClassPass, OneMedical, UrbanSitter, and Spring Health.
- Catered lunches from local restaurants and frequent employee-organized cultural events at the office.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
