Systems Reliability Engineer

The role is for an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to ensure the availability, performance, and operational excellence of large-scale distributed systems in production, combining software engineering principles with infrastructure and operations.

Location: Remote (United States)

Salary: $100,000–$150,000 Annually

Responsibilities

• Define, instrument, and refine service-level objectives (SLOs), SLIs, and error budgets for critical services.
• Lead incident response and resolution for production issues, including post-incident reviews.
• Design and implement monitoring, logging, and tracing strategies using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, ELK/EFK, Datadog.
• Build and maintain on-call processes, runbooks, and escalation paths.
• Automate operational toil with production-grade tooling in Python, Go, Bash, or similar.
• Architect and operate large-scale Kubernetes clusters and container workloads.
• Design CI/CD pipelines with automated testing, canary deployments, feature flags, and progressive rollout strategies.
• Lead capacity planning and performance engineering activities.
• Partner with application development teams to embed reliability practices early in design.
• Strengthen platform resiliency through chaos engineering, fault injection, retries, timeouts, circuit breakers, and failover paths.
• Drive security improvements in collaboration with security teams.
• Contribute to the technical roadmap for reliability tooling and observability platforms.
• Mentor engineers on SRE practices and foster a culture of operational excellence.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• 5+ years of SRE, DevOps, or production engineering experience supporting large-scale distributed systems.
• Strong programming skills in Python, Go, or Java.
• Deep experience operating Linux at scale, including networking and troubleshooting.
• Production experience with Kubernetes and container workloads.
• Knowledge of observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, ELK/EFK.
• Experience designing and operating CI/CD pipelines.
• Understanding of distributed system design, consistency models, partitioning, and failure semantics.
• Experience leading incident response and post-incident reviews.
• Excellent communication and documentation skills.

Additional Information

• Sponsorship: U.S. Citizens, Green Card Holders, EAD Holders, and H-1B transfer candidates encouraged to apply. No sponsorship for new H-1B visas.