Site Reliability Engineer

Uplers is recruiting for an unnamed startup specializing in enterprise Kubernetes management. The Site Reliability Engineer will operate and improve production systems, strengthening reliability, observability, incident response, automation, disaster recovery, and performance in a Kubernetes-native platform.

Responsibilities:

• Define, instrument and improve SLIs, SLOs and error budgets with service owners
• Participate in on-call, incident mitigation, blameless RCAs and long-term remediation
• Strengthen stability, scalability and disaster recovery practices
• Build and operate the observability stack: Prometheus/Grafana, ELK/Loki and distributed tracing
• Create dashboards, alerts and runbooks; reduce alert noise and improve signal quality
• Lead performance tuning, capacity planning and load testing
• Implement canary, rolling, blue/green and feature-flag deployment strategies
• Build fast, automated rollback and recovery to minimize MTTR
• Automate repetitive operational work through tooling and self-service
• Improve resilient Go microservices and REST APIs
• Improve CI/CD production readiness with GitHub Actions
• Automate infrastructure with Terraform and Ansible
• Troubleshoot and optimize MongoDB performance, indexing and high availability
• Use generative AI tools responsibly for RCA summaries, runbook generation and incident pattern analysis, with strong human validation

Requirements:

• 4+ years in SRE, Production Engineering, DevOps, Platform Engineering or high-scale distributed systems
• Strong hands-on experience operating, scaling and troubleshooting Kubernetes in production
• Proficiency in Python, Go, Java or similar, with a focus on automation
• Hands-on experience with observability (metrics, logs, traces, alerting) and on-call/incident response
• Strong Infrastructure-as-Code experience with Terraform and/or Ansible
• Experience with AWS, Azure or GCP
• Working knowledge of MongoDB operations, query/index performance and high availability
• Go microservices and REST API experience
• Enterprise SaaS, regulated or federal environment experience
• Disaster recovery, capacity planning or load testing programs
• AI-assisted operations workflows with strong validation controls