Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Job summary

The Senior Site Reliability Engineer owns reliability across a complex distributed platform, helping engineering teams design, measure, and improve production services. The role establishes SLOs and error budgets, designs observability across metrics, logs, and traces, improves incident and release practices, and automates operational work using Kubernetes on Google Cloud, GitOps, and ArgoCD.

Benefits

Qualifications

• Operate production workloads on Kubernetes in a major cloud, including networking, scaling, and capacity planning.
• Introduce SLOs and error budgets that engineering teams use to prioritize work.
• Build observability using metrics, logs, and traces with tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Tempo, Datadog, and OpenTelemetry.
• Write production-quality code in at least one programming language for internal tools and automation.
• Manage infrastructure as code with Terraform and deliver changes through GitOps workflows such as ArgoCD.
• Build or improve CI/CD and release pipelines, including release gates, rollbacks, and hotfix flows.
• Troubleshoot distributed-system performance issues and lead incidents through resolution.
• Explain reliability trade-offs and drive adoption of improvements across teams.

Responsibilities

• Define SLOs and error budgets with product engineering teams to guide priorities.
• Design observability across metrics, logs, and traces, including data pipelines, alerting, dashboards, and cost.
• Reduce alert noise and ensure pages prompt actionable responses.
• Co-own release processes, including go/no-go gates, coordination, and automated checks.
• Improve deployment safety using GitOps and ArgoCD on Kubernetes and Google Cloud.
• Build tools and automation to reduce repetitive operational work.
• Improve on-call readiness, incident severity decisions, blameless postmortems, and follow-up tracking.
• Find incident root causes and guide teams in designing resilient architectures.

Skills

Industry

Relocation