Site Reliability Engineer II

DAT•Denver, CO

29d•$95,000 - $134,000•Hybrid

About The Position

DAT is looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to join our SRE platform team. This position will work hybrid in Denver, CO. DAT is actively seeking a highly skilled and experienced Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to play a pivotal role in the expansion and maturation of our SRE practices. In this critical position, the successful candidate will be instrumental in driving key technical initiatives, fostering a culture of continuous improvement, and significantly enhancing their own professional expertise. This role necessitates close collaboration with various stakeholders, including our dedicated development teams and platform architects. The primary objective of these partnerships is to collectively achieve ambitious reliability goals and strategically scale our platform to meet evolving growth of the company. The SRE will be responsible for ensuring the stability, performance, and scalability of our systems, implementing robust monitoring solutions, automating operational tasks, and proactively identifying and resolving potential issues. This will involve a deep understanding of distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and a commitment to best practices in site reliability engineering.

Requirements

Strong collaboration and problem-solving abilities, especially within SRE or Platform Engineering/Infrastructure teams.
Total of 2 to 4+ years industry experience
At least 1 year of software engineering experience (JavaScript, Python, Go, Java/Kotlin, C++, etc)
Experience with modern observability tools (Datadog preferred).
Experience with cloud platforms (preferably AWS).
Demonstrated success in contributing to large technical initiatives and acting as a driving force to complete those initiatives.
Proven experience assisting in modernizing legacy code and infrastructure.
Ability to work closely with peer teams, platform/software architects and management to drive key reliability improvements.
Willingness to share your expertise among team members and others within the engineering organization.
Understanding of cloud infrastructure, automation, and best practices for reliability.

Nice To Haves

Experience with our tools (Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Terraform, Github Actions) a plus.

Responsibilities

Contribute to the design, implementation, and maintenance of scalable and reliable systems.
Collaborate with engineering teams to ensure reliability targets are met.
Identify and troubleshoot complex issues across distributed systems, ensuring minimal downtime and optimal performance.
Advocate for and implement SRE best practices, including automation, monitoring, and incident response, to enhance system resilience.
Participate in capacity planning and performance tuning to proactively address potential bottlenecks and support future growth.
Leverage new AI tools to assist with coding and observability tasks.
Assist and respond to critical engineering incidents.
Improve your engineering skills within the SRE team.
Provide technical guidance and best practices for use of cloud infrastructure and tooling.
Contribute to Infrastructure-as-Code within the platform.
Contribute to reliability-focused initiatives and projects.
Help optimize our work to be customer-focused. Continually seek feedback from our customers on how we can improve.
Assist in migrating legacy systems to modern, scalable cloud environments.
Help develop and drive a culture of continuous improvement with the Platform Engineering and Software Engineering groups.
Participate in an on-call rotation.