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Site Reliability Engineer, Reuters
Tho*** · New York, NY, United States
New York, NY, United StatesExp: 7+ yrs110,000-204,200 USD/yearlyRemote
Remuneration
$110,000–$204,200 USD base compensation; may also be eligible for an annual bonus
Location
New York, NY, United States
Visa sponsorship
Sponsors visa
Job summary
Own the web delivery layer for a global news content platform, keeping it available, performant, and configurable through origin and CDN infrastructure. Define reliability targets, maintain infrastructure as code, resolve production delivery issues, and automate launch and incident-response work using AI-assisted operational tools. Coordinate site launches and upgrades with engineering teams and external clients.
Benefits
Flexible vacationMental health daysHeadspace app accessRetirement savingsTuition reimbursementEmployee incentive programsHealth, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance401(k) plan with company matchParental leaveSabbatical leavePaid volunteer daysEmployee Stock Purchase Plan
Qualifications
- At least 7 years configuring highly scalable, customer-facing applications
- Experience with HTTP, caching, and CDNs for large-scale public sites
- Ability to analyze application and cloud performance using logs, metrics, and alerts
- Experience with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
- Experience with at least one server-side language: Python or Node.js
- Experience with infrastructure as code, such as Terraform or CloudFormation
- Preferred experience building and deploying cloud-based web applications, with AWS preferred
- Familiarity with Akamai or comparable CDN providers
- Preferred experience owning the full service lifecycle in a DevOps team
- Comfort working across a global, multi-timezone team
Responsibilities
- Provision and maintain origin and CDN infrastructure, including domains, SSL enforcement, redirects, static and root files, and authentication headers
- Define and track SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets for the delivery layer
- Lead or contribute to blameless postmortems and drive follow-up actions to completion
- Maintain auditable, repeatable infrastructure as code and plan capacity for traffic growth
- Diagnose and resolve availability and performance issues using logs, metrics, and alerts
- Automate repetitive delivery tasks and use AI-assisted tools for triage, anomaly detection, and runbook generation
- Manage launch tickets and coordinate site upgrades, timelines, and delivery with internal teams and external clients
- Build tools that reduce launch time and configuration errors
Skills
AkamaiAWSCloudFormationJavaScriptMakeNode.jsPythonTerraform
Languages
PythonNode.js
Work schedule
Global, multi-timezone on-call rotation
Industry
NewsJournalismMedia
Relocation
No