Staff Site Reliability Engineer
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Based in United StatesFull-TimeStaff
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Job Details
- Required Skills
- AWSGCPMicrosoft AzureRuby on RailsTypeScriptTerraformDistributed Systems
Requirements
- Significant experience as a Site Reliability Engineer, Production Engineer, Platform Engineer, or Software Engineer with a strong focus on reliability and large-scale systems.
- Strong knowledge of cloud infrastructure across AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform.
- Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.
- Solid software engineering skills with experience contributing to production-quality applications, including TypeScript and Ruby on Rails environments.
- Deep understanding of observability, monitoring, incident response, distributed systems, and production operations.
- Experience defining and implementing SLI, SLO, and error budget frameworks.
- Proven ability to lead technical initiatives across multiple teams without direct management responsibilities.
- Strong analytical and systems-thinking skills with the ability to identify operational risks and drive long-term improvements.
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with technical teams, business stakeholders, customers, and external partners.
- Experience mentoring engineers and promoting operational excellence across engineering organizations.
Responsibilities
- Partner with engineering teams from the earliest stages of product development to ensure reliability, scalability, and operational readiness are built into every project.
- Define and evolve production readiness standards, including architecture reviews, launch criteria, operational checklists, and engineering best practices.
- Establish and maintain Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs), and error budgets to support data-driven operational decision-making.
- Design and improve infrastructure frameworks, automation, and reusable deployment patterns across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud using Terraform.
- Lead reliability initiatives across multiple engineering teams by influencing technical direction, resolving operational challenges, and mentoring engineers.
- Drive continuous improvement of incident management processes, postmortems, monitoring strategies, and operational resilience.
- Participate in the team's on-call rotation while helping reduce operational burden through automation, proactive improvements, and system optimization.
- Collaborate with cloud providers, internal stakeholders, and technical partners to improve infrastructure capabilities and support long-term platform growth.
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