Staff Site Reliability Engineer

Prove is a company focused on enhancing digital identity solutions through phone-centric identity tokenization. They are seeking a Staff Site Reliability Engineer to lead efforts in improving reliability, collaborating with engineering teams, and enforcing standards in observability and automation.

Responsibilities:

• Guide infrastructure system design and application architecture within Platform Engineering and across engineering teams
• Develop and implement infrastructure-as-code standards using tools like Terraform and/or OpenTofu
• Act as a strong technical partner with our engineering teams
• Champion observability with product owners and engineering teams
• Improve new and existing systems by increasing reliability, performance, and scalability
• Automate routine operational tasks to reduce toil and improve efficiency
• Ensure infrastructure security compliance and implement least-privilege access controls
• Enhance existing CI/CD pipelines and feedback loops for maximum reliability
• Enable auto-scaling infrastructure based on custom metrics for applications and critical observability infrastructure
• Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation
• Conduct thorough post-incident reviews and implement preventative measures
• Use observability data to perform root cause analysis and identify system improvements

Requirements:

• 8+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering, or equivalent experience
• 4+ years of experience in technical project leadership
• Deep understanding of cloud platforms, preferably AWS
• Expert knowledge of observability platforms and practices (OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger, ELK stack)
• Strong experience with Kubernetes and container orchestration
• Deep familiarity with service mesh technologies
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, Spacelift, OpenTofu)
• Skilled proficiency in at least one programming language (Java, Go, Python)
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
• Experience with distributed systems and microservice architectures
• Experience working in a high compliance environment
• Hand-on experience instrumenting code with OpenTelemetry
• Application development experience