Key skills
PythonShellAIClaudeAgenticKafkaApolloFastAPIGraphQLAWSTerraformKubernetesGitHub ActionsVaultEKSArgoCDS3RDSMySQLRedisElasticsearchDatadogSentryREST APIGitHubGitOpsMemcachedCI/CDMentoringCommunicationCollaboration
About this role
Discogs is a company focused on serving the music fan community, and they are seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to enhance their cloud infrastructure and developer experience. The role involves maintaining and automating services, mentoring teams, and leading incident response efforts.
Responsibilities:
- 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
Requirements:
- 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)
- Track record of collaboration and mentorship
- Excellent written communication and documentation skills
- Continuous learning
- Ownership and proactive approach to solving large problems
- A Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or similar area of focus, or equivalent relevant work experience
- 5+ years experience in Ops, DevOps, Site Reliability, Platform or other systems roles
- 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