Freelance Site Reliability Engineer | Flexible, Growth-Minded

Filetwigbay; Santa Fe (NM); On-site; USD 73,000 - 113,000; Full time

Job summary

ByteWorks is scaling its technology platform across NM, and the Site Reliability Engineer we hire becomes one of its load-bearing decisions. Here $73,000 - $113,000 buys not just your time but a stake in the technology work, the kind ByteWorks trusts mid-level people to steer.

We seek a Site Reliability Engineer to troubleshoot incidents, stress-test CI systems, and translate ideas into fast, reliable Datadog prototypes.

Qualifications

• Experience presenting ideas to stakeholders at all levels.
• Familiar with freelance or builder-led work rhythms.
• Mid-level fluency in Apache Kafka with Datadog planning on the roadmap.
• Track record of improving technology processes.

Responsibilities

• Troubleshoot and resolve production incidents across applications.
• Stress-test GitHub Actions systems and harden where needed.
• Translate napkin ideas into Datadog prototypes.
• Own the mid-level Disaster Recovery workstream for Santa Fe roadmap.
• Architect fault-tolerant distributed systems with Kubernetes and Linux.

Skills

Stakeholder presentation

Kafka proficiency

Data interpretation

Fast-paced environment adaptation

Tools

Datadog

Kubernetes

Linux

GitHub Actions

Job description

ByteWorks is scaling its technology platform across NM, and the Site Reliability Engineer we hire becomes one of its load-bearing decisions. Here $73,000 - $113,000 buys not just your time but a stake in the technology work, the kind ByteWorks trusts mid-level people to steer.

We seek a Site Reliability Engineer to troubleshoot incidents, stress-test CI systems, and translate ideas into fast, reliable Datadog prototypes.