Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Idexx • Westbrook, ID

3d • $100,000 - $125,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

We are looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join our Site Reliability Engineering Team, working closely with a dedicated product team to modernize infrastructure, strengthen system resilience, and scale our global platform, leveraging AI tools and agents to accelerate delivery and improve system quality. Are you passionate about building modern, scalable cloud platforms that power real-world impact? At IDEXX, we are transforming how laboratory systems operate globally, helping veterinarians deliver better outcomes and enabling pets to live fuller lives. Our software supports Reference Laboratories, a critical area of IDEXX’s business, enabling high-volume diagnostic workflows, operational efficiency, and clinical insight at scale. You will be a core member of a cross-functional platform development team that scales globally across the entire Reference Lab operations ecosystem. This is a high-impact individual contributor role with end-to-end ownership of deployment and release systems, including CI/CD architecture and infrastructure modernization. You will work closely with developers, QA, and product partners to ensure reliable, secure, and scalable delivery of services, with an expectation to leverage AI tools and agents where appropriate to enhance productivity, automate workflows, and improve system quality. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys shaping engineering practices, improving systems, and driving operational excellence without direct reports.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, Platform Engineering, or similar roles focused on CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, and system reliability
• Strong experience with: AWS Serverless architectures, Terraform and CloudFormation, CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions preferred), Azure Entra ID, OAuth2, OpenID Connect, Maven build tooling, Git-based version control workflows (GitHub preferred)
• Proven ability to Design and optimize deployment pipelines
• Troubleshoot complex distributed systems
• Make data-driven decisions
• Translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions
• Strong communication, collaboration, and organizational skills
• Understanding of system design patterns for reliability and scalability

Nice To Haves

• Experience with Kotlin or Java development
• Experience with NoSQL databases (for example DynamoDB) and relational databases (for example PostgreSQL)
• Experience working in Agile or Scrum environments
• Familiarity with artifact management tools such as JFrog Artifactory
• Experience defining and managing SLAs, SLOs, and SLIs
• Experience with distributed tracing tools such as AWS X-Ray or OpenTelemetry
• Experience using AI tools or AI agents to improve development, automation, or operational Workflows

Responsibilities

• Own the design and evolution of CI/CD pipeline architecture, governance, and standards
• Modernize and automate deployment pipelines for Kotlin-based AWS Lambda services using GitHub Actions
• Standardize infrastructure and deployment processes across services
• Reduce manual deployment effort through automation
• Leverage AI tools where appropriate to improve productivity and system quality
• Design, build, and evolve scalable, resilient AWS cloud infrastructure
• Lead implementation of disaster recovery, high availability, and fault-tolerant designs
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and lifecycle management to reduce manual work
• Build and maintain end-to-end observability (metrics, logging, tracing, alerting)
• Establish effective alerting that reduces noise and ensures high-signal incident detection
• Proactively identify and address system risks before they impact customers
• Lead incident response in shared on-call rotation (triage, mitigation, communication)
• Drive root cause analysis and blameless postmortems to prevent recurrence
• Own and govern the release process, including deployment gates and approvals
• Review and approve deployment plans to ensure quality and stability
• Optimize the build and release lifecycle for speed, consistency, and reliability
• Manage cross-repo dependencies and versioning strategies
• Lead remediation of security vulnerabilities, collaborating with the Security team as needed
• Establish processes to proactively prevent new security risks
• Embed secure development and deployment practices into pipelines
• Guide the development team toward reliability and security best practices
• Proactively identify issues, drive visibility, and ensure timely resolution with engineers
• Stay up to date with industry trends and emerging technologies to drive innovation
• Communicate technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders

Benefits

• Base annual salary target: $100000 - $125000 (yes, we do have flexibility if needed)
• Opportunity for annual cash bonus
• Health / Dental / Vision Benefits Day-One
• 5% matching 401k
• Additional benefits including but not limited to financial support, pet insurance, mental health resources, volunteer paid days off, employee stock program, foundation donation matching, and much more!

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed