Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Role Overview

• Lead and participate in the design, implementation, and maintenance of highly available and scalable infrastructure.
• Monitor system health, performance metrics, and capacity planning to ensure optimal performance.
• Establish and track SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets to measure and improve system reliability.
• Design and implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions using tools like Terraform, Pulumi, or CloudFormation.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines to enable rapid, safe deployments.
• Automate operational tasks and eliminate toil through scripting and tooling.
• Lead incident response efforts, including on-call rotation, post-mortem analysis, and remediation.
• Debug and resolve complex production issues across the entire stack.
• Implement monitoring, alerting, and observability solutions to detect and prevent issues proactively.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineers on reliability and infrastructure best practices.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including Engineering and Product to ensure reliable product delivery.
• Lead the technical design of infrastructure solutions, ensuring alignment with architectural principles and business goals.
• Stay updated with emerging technologies and industry trends in SRE, DevOps, and cloud infrastructure.
• Propose and drive the adoption of best practices, tools, and processes to enhance system reliability and developer productivity.
• Conduct chaos engineering experiments and disaster recovery drills to validate system resilience.
• Implement and maintain security best practices across infrastructure and applications.
• Manage secrets, access controls, and security monitoring systems.
• Foster a collaborative environment within the engineering team and across departments.
• Clearly communicate technical concepts and system health to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Work closely with engineering teams to define reliability requirements and ensure operational excellence.

Requirements

• 5+ years (ideally 7+) of relevant work experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or Infrastructure roles
• 1+ years of hands-on experience with either Python, Go, or Bash scripting
• Experience with cloud platforms (ideally GCP) and container orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker)
• Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar)
• Strong understanding of Linux systems, networking, and distributed systems
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or similar)
• Excellent problem-solving and communication skills
• Able to work independently and as part of a team

Tech Stack

• Cloud
• Distributed Systems
• Docker
• Google Cloud Platform
• Grafana
• Kubernetes
• Linux
• Prometheus
• Python
• Terraform
• Go

Benefits

• Be part of a mission-driven, rapidly scaling company changing the future of eye care
• Work remotely from anywhere in the U.S.
• Collaborate with a passionate, fun, and supportive team
• Competitive salary
• $150,000
• $200,000
• Equity in a fast-growing startup
• Health, vision, and dental benefits
• Unlimited PTO
• Annual professional development stipend
• A high-impact role with plenty of room for growth, ownership, and creativity