Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Instrumental builds a manufacturing data platform that helps electronics companies improve production processes. The Senior Site Reliability Engineer will deploy and operate its cloud-based SaaS platform, focusing on performance, scalability, reliability, automation, and operational workflows.

Requirements:

• 5 or more years of DevOps or SRE experience deploying and operating commercial SaaS platforms on public cloud infrastructure, AWS preferred
• Expert knowledge with Linux, shell, containerization, Kubernetes, IaC (terraform preferred), monitoring, logging, and APM tools
• Proven ability to take initiative and drive impactful projects to completion efficiently and independently
• Comfort with ambiguity, pace, and frequent pivots inherent in a startup environment, with a track record of creating clarity for teams
• Experience introducing and integrating AI tools/processes into development and operation workflows
• Demonstrated skill in setting, iterating on, and measuring KPIs to ensure ongoing performance, reliability and efficiency
• Dead serious about performance, scalability, and reliability (PSR): You care deeply about how systems behave in the real world and sweat the details around latency, uptime, and scale
• Systems engineering & infrastructure expertise: You've spent real time building and running distributed systems and know your way around cloud infrastructure, networks, and operating systems
• Automation, automation, automation: If something is repetitive or error-prone, your first instinct is to automate it and make it disappear
• Operating in ambiguity & high-growth environments: You're comfortable making good calls without perfect information and adapting as the system and company grow fast
• Dependable, trustworthy: People trust you to own problems, show up when things are broken, and follow through
• U.S. citizens only
• Network/application security and compliance experience