Sr. Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Avenue Code • Mountain View, CA

78d • $160,000 - $166,000

About The Position

We're seeking an experienced, highly collaborative SRE to partner with product teams and tackle our most critical infrastructure challenges. You'll be hands-on in designing, building, and operating our cloud platform-and driving the reliability, performance, and security that empower our engineering organization.

Requirements

• Have 5+ years of experience running production critical systems.
• Deep proficiency with the AWS Cloud and Cloud-Native best practices.
• Experience with Kubernetes (EKS, GKE) and Container Orchestration at scale.
• Skilled in Terraform to declaratively provision and maintain infrastructure services.
• Working knowledge of managing and debugging databases like Redis and Postgres.
• Strong familiarity with VPC, VPN, Load Balancing, and cloud networking components.
• Proficiency with Git workflows, branching strategies, and CI/CD system integrations.
• Solid understanding of web and network protocols and standards (HTTP, REST, TLS, DNS, etc...).
• Professional proficiency in English (both written and spoken) is required for this role.

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor's degree, or equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Experience with ArgoCD, Github Actions, Jenkins, or other CI/CD pipeline solutions.
• Working knowledge of Python, Golang, and Helm templating languages.
• Node.js experience a plus, including running scalable, resilient Node microservices.
• Grasp of foundational security best practices for cloud infrastructure.
• Awareness of Terragrunt, managing Terraform state, and optimal project structure.
• Seasoned in production readiness fundamentals amidst a fast moving team.

Responsibilities

• Automate provisioning and deployments with Terraform and integrate best-practice pipelines (GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, etc.).
• Define SLIs/SLOs, manage error budgets, and build dashboards & alerts to proactively measure and improve system health.
• Enforce least-privilege IAM policies, automate vulnerability scans, and maintain audit logging for compliance.
• Instrument services with metrics, logs, and distributed tracing to enable rapid troubleshooting, aid teams in alerting, custom metrics, and dashboarding.
• Own on-call rotations, lead real-time incident response, conduct post-mortems, and drive continuous improvements.
• Implement tagging strategies, right-size resources, and leverage concrete data to decide on optimal methods to control cloud spend at scale.
• Author runbooks, standards, and best-practice guides-and coach dev teams on implementing modern DevOps, reliability, and security patterns.

Benefits

• Avenue Code discloses salary range information based on our commitment to fairness and transparency.
• A reasonable estimate of the current range for a Sr. SRE is from $160,000.00 to $166,000.00 yearly.

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Senior
• Industry: Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 101-250 employees