Data Platform SRE Engineer - Observability & Automation

Empower LLC; Austin, Northern (TX, KY); Hybrid; USD 106,000 - 149,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental

Vision

401(k) plan

Tuition reimbursement

Paid time off

Volunteer time

BRGs

Job summary

Empower LLC is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Data Platforms to strengthen reliability of cloud-based data pipelines. You will collaborate with Data Engineering, Cloud, Platform, Security, and FinOps teams to improve health, observability, and efficiency of production systems.

You will design Datadog/Splunk dashboards, automate tasks with Python, and apply SRE practices including SLOs, incident management, and IaC using Terraform.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on AWS experience in production.
• Experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Production Engineering, Platform Engineering, or Cloud Reliability Engineering.
• Strong understanding of SRE principles and production operations.
• Experience with Amazon Redshift or similar data platforms in production.
• Hands-on with Datadog and Splunk for observability.
• Strong Python programming for automation and tooling.
• Proficient in SQL for production troubleshooting.
• Good knowledge of Terraform and IaC, and collaboration with Cloud/Platform teams.
• Experience with incident management, RCA, and preventive actions.

Responsibilities

• Own and improve reliability, availability, performance, and health of production data platforms and pipelines.
• Monitor pipeline execution, dependencies, failures, and recovery with downstream impact analysis.
• Troubleshoot complex production issues across AWS, data platforms, and services.
• Design and improve observability using Datadog and Splunk, including dashboards and alerts.
• Reduce alert noise, strengthen incident detection, and contribute to post-incident reviews.
• Participate in on-call rotation and incident response, with root-cause analysis and corrective actions.
• Automate operational tasks and health checks using Python.
• Apply SRE practices: SLOs, incident management, capacity planning, resilience, and DR.
• Use Terraform/IaC for infrastructure changes and collaboration with Cloud/Platform teams.
• Identify recurring issues and drive sustainable engineering improvements.
• Contribute to cost-efficiency improvements across AWS and data-platform services.
• Develop runbooks and recovery procedures.

Skills

AWS

SRE principles

Production operations

Incident management

Python programming

SQL for production

Automation

Tools

Datadog

Splunk

Terraform

Snowflake

Redshift

Python

SQL

Job description

Empower LLC is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Data Platforms to strengthen reliability of cloud-based data pipelines. You will collaborate with Data Engineering, Cloud, Platform, Security, and FinOps teams to improve health, observability, and efficiency of production systems.

You will design Datadog/Splunk dashboards, automate tasks with Python, and apply SRE practices including SLOs, incident management, and IaC using Terraform.