Staff Software Engineer - SRE (Remote)
About The Position
As a Staff Software Engineer for the Platform Engineering team at Rula, you will be at the heart of our engineering operations, ensuring our systems are robust, efficient, and scalable. In this role, you'll collaborate closely with application engineering teams on all things related to our platform infrastructure. One day you may work to enhance observability across our platforms and spearhead the adoption of SRE best practices, while another you build and maintain reliable CI/CD pipelines, tooling and infrastructure. Ideal candidates will thrive on the opportunity to influence both technology and culture, making a lasting impact by embedding reliability and efficiency into the DNA of our engineering practices and practices. You deeply understand the need for excellence and quality while being flexible, supportive, and open to iteration. You have strong convictions loosely held, you know what good patterns at scale look like and are excited to implement them.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience with Site Reliability Engineering and/or DevOps to work individually on projects and tasks.
- Experience collaborating across engineering and product teams, to drive change
- Strong Site Reliability / DevOps Experience – knowledge of how to work with and properly apply SRE fundamentals in a mission-critical environment.
- Experience with on-call rotations in mission-critical environments to ensure Service Level Objectives are met for internal and external customers.
- 5+ years of Kubernetes (or equivalent tool) experience
- 5+ years of AWS experience
- Experience with all aspects of Site Reliability, including monitoring, alerting, metrics, logging, and application performance monitoring, which make up the core job responsibilities
Nice To Haves
- Well-seasoned and proficient in handling complex incidents properly according to best practices.
- Collaborative working style and thrives in a remote environment.
- High personal awareness, growth mindset; “know what they don’t know” during incidents, and while participating in complex problems.
- Previous experience in mission-critical systems and enterprises. SRE requires a commitment to excellence, with a deep ingrained culture of performing at a high level in stressful situations.
Benefits
- 100% remote work environment: Working hours to support a healthy work-life balance, ensuring you can meet both professional and personal commitments (must be based in United States, currently not hiring in Hawaii)
- Attractive pay and benefits: Full transparency of pay ranges regardless of where you live in the United States
- Comprehensive health benefits: Medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and FSA/HSA
- 401(k) plan access: Start saving for your future
- Generous time-off policies: Including 2 company-wide shutdown weeks each year for self-care (for most employees)
- Paid parental leave: Available for all parents, including birthing, non-birthing, adopting, and fostering
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP): Support for your mental and physical health
- New hire home office stipend: Set up your workspace for success
- Quarterly department stipend: Fund team-building activities or in-person gatherings
- Wellness events and lunch & learns: Explore a variety of engaging topics
- Community and employee resource groups: Participate in groups that celebrate employee identity and lived experiences, fostering a sense of community and belonging for all
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
