Founding SRE for AI-Native Cloud Platform — Remote

Gradle Technologies; North Township (IN); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first culture

Competitive salary + equity

Annual company offsite

Job summary

Gradle Technologies is hiring a founding SRE/DevOps engineer to own reliability across Develocity instances. You will manage production services, run on-call rotations, automate deployments, and build observability across the stack.

You’ll collaborate with Cloud Platform and Engineering to embed reliability from design onward. The role demands 5+ years in SRE/DevOps, strong Kubernetes and AWS experience, and proficiency with Python/Bash scripting.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in SRE, DevOps, or equivalent role operating production services at scale.
• Strong Kubernetes experience in production environments.
• Cloud infrastructure expertise, preferably AWS (EKS, RDS, S3, EC2).
• Proficiency with observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana) and Terraform.
• Track record of incident management and response.
• Knowledge of SRE practices (SLAs, SLOs) and scripting (Python, Bash).
• Experience with 24/7 on-call rotations and strong English communication.

Responsibilities

• Operate and maintain Develocity instances and supporting services.
• Participate in follow-the-sun on-call rotation; own incident response.
• Drive automation across deployment, upgrades, monitoring, and self-healing.
• Build and maintain observability for all managed services (logging, metrics, tracing, alerts).
• Collaborate with engineering to bake reliability into features from the start.
• Run incident retrospectives and implement lessons learned.
• Own disaster recovery, backups, and business continuity.
• Communicate with customers during incidents and maintenance windows.
• Optimize performance, resource usage, and costs.
• Help evolve SaaS operations as we scale.

Skills

Kubernetes

AWS

Python

Bash

English comms

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

Terraform

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Gradle Technologies is hiring a founding SRE/DevOps engineer to own reliability across Develocity instances. You will manage production services, run on-call rotations, automate deployments, and build observability across the stack.

You’ll collaborate with Cloud Platform and Engineering to embed reliability from design onward. The role demands 5+ years in SRE/DevOps, strong Kubernetes and AWS experience, and proficiency with Python/Bash scripting.