Site Reliability Engineer III

onX is a high-growth technology company building products that help people confidently explore the outdoors. The Site Reliability Engineer III will build and maintain infrastructure, deployment automation, and observability systems, while improving reliability, performance, and the developer path to production. The role also includes incident response, infrastructure automation, monitoring integrations, and architectural collaboration.

Responsibilities:

• Deploy, monitor and maintain highly available systems using technologies such as Terraform, CockroachDB and GCP services to include GKE(Kubernetes), Cloud SQL, Bigtable, Google Composer (Airflow), Google Cloud Storage, BigQuery, Pub/Sub, Cloud Run, etc
• Maintain and extend a large, mature Terraform codebase
• Analyze systems and make recommendations to increase performance, availability and minimize cost
• Automate manual systems to minimize toil wherever possible
• Develop and maintain integrations with 3rd party monitoring and alerting systems, such as Google Cloud Monitoring, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Checkly, and Rootly
• Drive incident response best practices for on-call engineering teams across onX. Participate in the SRE team's on-call rotation for core infrastructure
• Collaborate in architectural decisions and direction involving our services and initiatives

Requirements:

• You have a B.S. or M.S. in computer science or a related field or relevant experience
• You have at least 5+ years of experience where 3+ are supporting production systems
• You have a strong interest and experience with Kubernetes, networking, and infrastructure-as-code
• You have experience with Terraform/OpenTofu
• You have exposure to at least one major cloud platform
• You evaluate technologies and solutions based on merit, stability, performance and the ability to debug
• You have practical experience with different types of datastores (SQL, NoSQL, object storage) and can explain when to use each based on data access patterns and scalability needs
• You have a strong computer science foundation
• You believe that your profession is a craft and you're driven to improve every day
• You take strong ownership of your work and platform responsibilities
• Candidates who live elsewhere in the U.S. may still be considered, provided they reside in a state where onX is currently able to employ team members
• At this time, we are unable to employ individuals whose primary work location is in: Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Dakota, West Virginia, or Wyoming
• Familiarity with Google Cloud Platform
• Strong ability to troubleshoot and break down issues
• Experience working with high throughput, low latency services
• Experience working with a distributed team
• Experience working with IAM, auditing & security management within a cloud environment
• Experience working with GIS Mapping systems and tiles
• Experience working with Claude Code
• Experience working with Airflow or equivalent ETL systems
• We have a strong preference for hiring candidates who live near one of our offices or within a Basecamp, and we prioritize candidates in these locations first