Owning tasks and larger projects from planning to production rollout
Learning new technologies and building expertise with the goal of teaching and mentoring others; mentoring with the goal of force-multiplying through docs and tools
Maintaining organization cloud presence in AWS
Automating and deploying infrastructure configurations using Infrastructure as Code (IAC)
Mentoring engineering squads on Platform best practices for Kubernetes, MySQL, Kafka, and other software development lifecycle areas
Assisting engineering squads with capacity planning, on-call preparation, and production readiness
Writing documentation and runbooks that contribute to the engineering organization’s knowledge base
Implementing monitoring and alerting systems with Discogs observability tools
Working in a containerized, orchestrated environment
Participating in on-call rotation, responding to incidents, and troubleshooting data and other operations issues
Contributing to the reliability and design patterns of our Kafka CDC and event workflows
Contributing to agentic AI best practices and tooling, including skills, agents, and safety

5+ years experience in Ops, DevOps, Site Reliability, Platform or other systems roles.
A Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or similar area of focus, or equivalent relevant work experience.
Infrastructure-as-code (Terraform)
CI/CD (GitHub Actions)
Kubernetes (EKS, Kustomize, Karpenter, administration, application manifests)
AWS and cloud development (VPC, EKS, RDS, S3)
FinOps and cloud cost optimization
Observability (Datadog, Sentry)
Agentic AI (Claude Code)
Scripting (Shell, Python)
Proven track record of collaboration and mentorship
Excellent written communication and documentation skills
Continuous learning
Ownership and proactive approach to solving large problems
Preferred: Kafka: Cluster administration (Strimzi), Kafka Connect (Debezium, JDBC), Flink, Relational database administration and performance (MySQL, Percona Server, AWS RDS), Elasticsearch (ECK administration, scaling, performance), Python (SQLAlchemy, FastAPI), GraphQL (schema design, Apollo federation), REST API, GitOps (ArgoCD), Hashicorp Vault, Redis, Memcached.

Competitive compensation: salary, plus performance-related bonus program
401(k) with employer match
100% company-paid medical and dental insurance benefits for you and your dependents
4 weeks paid vacation, increasing based on tenure
18 weeks paid leave for birth moms
8 weeks paid parental leave, including for adoption
Monthly wellness allowance
Annual professional and personal development allowance
Work from home office set-up and expense allowances
Flexible work location opportunities
Employer matching toward charitable contributions

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

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