Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Role Overview

• Own the reliability of systems they don't write
• Prevent fires rather than fighting them
• Remain in the on-call rotation and are effective incident responders
• Raise the reliability floor for everyone
• Focused on resilience and reliability outcomes
• Build the internal capability that lets SREs and dev teams ship with confidence
• Measure success by planned, high-leverage work

Requirements

• 3--7+ years of experience in Operations, Sys Admin, DevOps, or Software engineering
• Bachelor’s Degree in CS, Computer Engineering, or related technical field
• US Citizenship & Must have or be able to obtain a Top Secret Clearence
• Systems thinking – understanding how systems fail together, blast radius, and more
• Observability Fundamentals – not just the 3 signals, but knowing why and how to use telemetry to optimize services and engineering quality of life
• Software engineering – building automation & non-trivial APIs, git workflows, leading code reviews
• Linux/networking fundamentals
• Strong Communication, Collaboration, and Organizational Skills
• Specialty Skills: (2 or more) Platform & Infrastructure
• Kubernetes, ArgoCD/GitOps, DR, capacity planning
• Observability
• OTel standards, Grafana/Perses, Tempo, Clickhouse, VictoriaMetrics
• Automation & Toil Reduction
• scripting, CI/CD, runbook automation, “DevOps”
• Developer Enablement
• instrumentation SDKs, SRE practice onboarding
• Data & Alerting
• dashboard quality, alert design, anomaly detection

Tech Stack

• Grafana
• Kubernetes
• Linux

Benefits

• Employee-ownership benefits
• Health insurance
• Retirement plans
• Paid time off
• Flexible work arrangements