Co-Founding SRE & Reliability Automation Architect

Jobtailor; California (MO); On-site; USD 120,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor is seeking an experienced SRE leader to co-found the reliability practice and drive measurable outcomes across engineering systems. You will design tooling for SLOs, error budgets, and post-incident learning, partnering with Incident Management to standardize responses.

You will transform manual toil into reusable software and establish robust production reliability architecture across hybrid cloud environments, influencing multiple teams and services.

Qualifications

• Significant experience as an SRE or Production Engineer for large-scale distributed systems.
• Hands-on in defining SLIs/SLOs and operationalizing error budgets.

Responsibilities

• Co-found the SRE practice by translating reliability charter into engineering systems and measurable outcomes.
• Design and build shared reliability tooling and automation (SLOs, readiness evidence, toil reduction).
• Establish risk-based production reliability architecture and minimum standards.
• Partner with Incident Management to operationalize severity, command, and response standards.
• Turn repetitive operational work into reusable software to protect engineering capacity.
• Help teams classify services, map dependencies, and establish meaningful SLIs/SLOs.

Skills

SRE / Production Engineering

Go / Python / Java / C++

Linux / Kubernetes / Cloud

SLIs / SLOs definition

Error budgets / on-call health

Automation / tools development

Tools

Kubernetes

CI/CD Tools

Observability

Hybrid Cloud

Job description

Jobtailor is seeking an experienced SRE leader to co-found the reliability practice and drive measurable outcomes across engineering systems. You will design tooling for SLOs, error budgets, and post-incident learning, partnering with Incident Management to standardize responses.

You will transform manual toil into reusable software and establish robust production reliability architecture across hybrid cloud environments, influencing multiple teams and services.