Staff Site Reliability Engineer
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JobgetherCloud-native enterprise software
This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Staff Site Reliability Engineer based in the United States.Full-TimeStaff
SalaryAnnual base salary ranging from CAD 140,000 to CAD 155,000.
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Job Details
- Experience
- At least 8 years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering, DevOps, or related cloud-native engineering roles.
- Required Skills
- AWSNode.jsKubernetesTypeScriptGitHub Actions
Requirements
- At least 8 years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering, DevOps, or related cloud-native engineering roles.
- Deep expertise in AWS services, including EKS, IAM, VPC, Lambda, CloudFront, and S3, plus cloud networking and security best practices.
- Advanced hands-on experience operating, managing, and scaling production Kubernetes environments.
- Strong experience with Istio service mesh, including traffic management, security, observability, and resilience.
- Expertise in Infrastructure as Code, preferably using AWS CDK.
- Experience designing, building, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions or similar platforms.
- Experience with monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting for cloud-native platforms, including AWS CloudWatch, OpenTelemetry, AWS X-Ray, and Kubernetes observability tools.
- Experience defining and operationalizing SLIs, SLOs, alerting strategies, runbooks, and reliability metrics.
- Strong proficiency in TypeScript and Node.js for platform engineering, automation, and operational tooling.
- Experience developing and maintaining scalable backend services, APIs, and event-driven systems.
- Understanding of Kubernetes architecture, controllers, Gateway API, ingress management, and service networking.
- Experience implementing zero-trust architectures, mutual TLS, and service-to-service security controls.
- Strong troubleshooting, performance optimization, incident management, and resilience engineering skills.
- Commitment to automated testing, code reviews, and observability-driven development.
- Excellent communication, collaboration, mentoring, and technical leadership skills.
Responsibilities
- Lead reliability engineering initiatives across mission-critical services running on AWS and Kubernetes.
- Design and improve deployment, release, and rollback strategies for distributed systems.
- Build and maintain secure CI/CD pipelines with automation, governance, and policy-driven controls.
- Improve observability with metrics, logging, distributed tracing, and actionable alerting.
- Define and mature SLIs, SLOs, alerting strategies, and reliability standards.
- Lead high-severity production incident response and post-incident reviews.
- Identify ways to reduce operational toil, improve performance, and strengthen resilience.
- Partner with engineering teams to establish platform standards and integrate reliability practices into software development.
- Architect and maintain scalable distributed systems and cloud infrastructure, focusing on AWS and Kubernetes.
- Mentor engineers and contribute to internal developer platforms and self-service engineering capabilities.
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