Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Paxos • Canada, KY

27d

About The Position

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you’ll play a critical role in shaping and scaling the infrastructure that powers our platform. You'll work closely with engineering teams to ensure our systems are reliable, secure, and performant with a strong focus on Kubernetes, AWS services, and infrastructure as code. Your expertise will help drive automation, improve developer velocity, and support the continued growth and maintenance of our cloud-native environment.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field — or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or related infrastructure roles.
• Deep expertise in public cloud platforms, especially AWS, with hands-on experience in services like EC2, S3, Lambda, CloudWatch, and IAM.
• Strong proficiency with Kubernetes and container orchestration — you’ve run production workloads and understand cluster management, scaling, and troubleshooting.
• Extensive experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools such as Terraform, Pulumi, or Crossplane.
• Solid scripting or programming skills in languages like Python, Bash, or Go, with a strong focus on automation.
• Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills, with a systems-thinking mindset.
• Strong communicator who thrives in collaborative, remote-first teams.

Nice To Haves

• Working knowledge of managed database services like Amazon RDS, Aurora, or PostgreSQL is a plus — but infrastructure is your main game.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate scalable, highly available cloud infrastructure primarily on AWS.
• Manage and evolve our Kubernetes environments to support the deployment and operation of modern, containerized applications.
• Define and implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools like Terraform, CDK, or Crossplane.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration, maintenance, and monitoring to reduce manual effort and improve reliability.
• Apply best practices around security, observability, and cost optimization across infrastructure and services.
• Manage and optimize database technologies, with a focus on Amazon RDS and Aurora.
• Partner with development teams to
• Investigate and resolve incidents, perform root cause analysis, and implement long-term fixes.
• Participate in on-call rotations and provide support for critical production systems.
• Contribute to SRE best practices, internal tooling, and team knowledge sharing.

Benefits

• Paxos offers a competitive total compensation and benefits package, including equity and bonuses based on both your individual performance and company performance.
• Eligibility for bonuses is dependent on job level, and actual salary within the range depends on your skills, experience, and qualifications.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 101-250 employees