Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Remote from Washington)
About The Position
The Senior Site Reliability Engineer will play a critical role in enhancing the reliability, scalability, and performance of large-scale distributed systems. This role blends infrastructure expertise with software development, focusing on automation, observability, and proactive risk mitigation. You will collaborate closely with engineering teams to optimize platforms, improve operational efficiency, and ensure high availability for millions of users. The ideal candidate thrives in high-traffic environments, contributes to open-source projects, and enjoys solving complex technical challenges while mentoring peers and improving team practices. This position offers the opportunity to make a tangible impact on highly visible systems and services.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in Software Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, or a development-focused DevOps role.
- Proficiency in one or more programming languages, preferably Go and Python.
- Experience with Kubernetes, cloud systems, and distributed systems development.
- Familiarity with observability and monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Thanos, Grafana, Vector, Clickhouse, Otel, and Loki.
- Strong skills in debugging, optimizing code, and troubleshooting across applications, networking (TCP/IP), and systems.
- Solid working knowledge of Linux and containerization technologies.
- Excellent collaboration, communication, and problem-solving abilities.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with engineering teams to design, build, and maintain resilient, high-performance systems.
- Enhance infrastructure and platform services to support deployment, observability, and operational excellence.
- Develop automation tools to reduce manual tasks, mitigate risks, and improve engineering efficiency.
- Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize network, system, and service-level performance.
- Participate in sustainable incident response, conducting blameless postmortems and implementing improvements.
- Contribute upstream to open-source projects and implement best practices for scalability and reliability.
- Share on-call responsibilities to ensure continuous system availability and performance.
Benefits
- Comprehensive healthcare coverage including medical, dental, and vision.
- 401(k) program with employer matching.
- Home office setup support and remote workspace benefits.
- Personal and professional development funds.
- Flexible vacation policies and global wellness days.
- Paid parental leave and family planning support.
- Paid volunteer time off.
- Equity opportunities in the form of restricted stock units.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
Number of Employees
11-50 employees
