Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Jobgether; Remote; CAD 177,000 - 191,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading tech company is hiring a Senior Site Reliability Engineer in Canada to ensure system reliability and performance. This role involves managing cloud infrastructure and databases while collaborating closely with product and engineering teams. Ideal candidates have 3+ years of experience, strong AWS and Kubernetes skills, and an ownership-driven mindset. The position offers competitive compensation, fully remote work, and generous benefits including 35 days of vacation and a development budget.

Benefits

Competitive salary: $130,000 – $140,000

Fully remote work

Generous paid time off: 35 days

Comprehensive medical coverage

Home office setup stipend

Learning and development budget

Annual bonus potential

Company retreats

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering or similar roles.
• Proficient in AWS and Kubernetes for production use.
• Experience managing incidents and outages effectively.
• Hands-on involvement with database performance tuning.

Responsibilities

• Act as a primary responder for system incidents and outages.
• Continuously improve monitoring, alerting, and log management.
• Manage, optimize, and scale database infrastructure.
• Collaborate with engineering teams for resilient systems.

Skills

Site Reliability Engineering

AWS

Kubernetes

Incident management

Database operations

Observability best practices

Performance tuning

Collaboration

Tools

MySQL

PostgreSQL

ClickHouse

Redis

Job description

This position is posted by Jobgether on behalf of a partner company. We are currently looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer in Canada.

We are looking for an experienced Senior Site Reliability Engineer to help scale and secure a high-traffic, rapidly growing platform. In this role, you will be responsible for ensuring system reliability, performance, and availability as infrastructure demands continue to grow. You will work hands-on with cloud infrastructure, databases, and observability tooling while partnering closely with product and engineering teams. The role offers significant ownership over core infrastructure systems and the opportunity to build long-term, resilient foundations. This is an ideal position for someone who thrives in fast-moving environments and enjoys solving complex reliability challenges at scale.

Accountabilities

• Act as a primary responder for system incidents and outages, ensuring high availability and fast recovery.
• Own and continuously improve monitoring, alerting, and log management systems.
• Manage, optimize, and scale database infrastructure including MySQL, PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, and Redis.
• Maintain and enhance server infrastructure, deployment pipelines, and release processes.
• Collaborate closely with engineering teams to design and operate scalable, resilient systems.
• Build and maintain internal SRE tooling and automation to improve reliability and efficiency.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or Infrastructure Engineering roles.
• Deep expertise with AWS and Kubernetes in production environments.
• Proven experience managing incident response and production outages.
• Hands-on experience with database operations, performance tuning, and optimization.
• Strong understanding of observability, monitoring, and logging best practices.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, high-growth environment with evolving priorities.
• Strong alignment with company values and a collaborative, ownership-driven mindset.
• Proficient in English, spoken and written, at CEFR Level C2 / ILR Level 5.
• Based in North or South America for timezone alignment.
• Bonus: experience with SOC 2 compliance, scaling platforms to 1M+ MAU, or working with ClickHouse.

Benefits

• Competitive salary: $130,000 – $140,000 USD per year, plus equity and annual compensation reviews.
• Fully remote work from anywhere.
• High autonomy and trust, with a strong focus on outcomes.
• Generous paid time off: 35 days annually, plus a paid sabbatical after 5 years.
• Comprehensive medical coverage for you and your family, or reimbursement options where applicable.
• Parental leave and family support benefits.
• Home office setup stipend.
• Learning and development budget for continuous growth.
• Annual bonus potential for eligible roles.
• Twice-yearly fully paid company retreats in international locations.

Why Apply Through Jobgether?

We use an AI-powered matching process to ensure your application is reviewed quickly, objectively, and fairly against the role's core requirements. Our system identifies the top-fitting candidates, and this shortlist is then shared directly with the hiring company. The final decision and next steps (interviews, assessments) are managed by their internal team.

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