Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Scale & Resilience Leader

Kidentify; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Kidentify seeks a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to own and improve the reliability of our platform. You will manage infrastructure on AWS and Kubernetes, build strong observability, and lead incident response for a globally scaled service.

You will collaborate with engineering to bake reliability into design, automate toil away, and optimize deployment safety with robust CI/CD and environment controls. This is a hands-on role requiring coding and systems thinking.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of production ownership in infrastructure, platforms, SRE, or software with ownership responsibilities.
• Strong experience running production systems on AWS.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and container workloads.
• Experience with infrastructure as code, preferably Terraform.
• Experience designing observability stacks with Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, or equivalents.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, failure modes, and production debugging.
• Experience building or improving CI/CD systems and release workflows.
• Ability to write code and automation in Go, Python, or TypeScript.
• Good judgment during incidents with a practical mindset on tradeoffs and recovery.

Responsibilities

• Own the reliability, availability, and performance of the systems behind k-ID's platform and public APIs.
• Design and improve scalable infrastructure on AWS and Kubernetes to support growth and global workloads.
• Build and maintain observability across logs, metrics, tracing, alerting, and service health.
• Improve deployment safety through CI/CD workflows, release controls, and environment consistency.
• Lead incident response and production readiness practices, including runbooks, on-call hygiene, and postmortems.
• Reduce operational toil by automating repetitive tasks and improving internal tooling.
• Partner with engineering teams to embed reliability and operability from the start of service design.
• Strengthen platform security and hygiene across access controls, secrets handling, and hardening.
• Continuously improve system performance and cost awareness without sacrificing reliability.

Skills

AWS

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Go

Python

TypeScript

Observability

Distributed systems

Incident response

Tools

Terraform

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Job description

Kidentify seeks a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to own and improve the reliability of our platform. You will manage infrastructure on AWS and Kubernetes, build strong observability, and lead incident response for a globally scaled service.

You will collaborate with engineering to bake reliability into design, automate toil away, and optimize deployment safety with robust CI/CD and environment controls. This is a hands-on role requiring coding and systems thinking.