[Hiring] Senior Site Reliability Engineer @BaxEnergy

BaxEnergy; United States; Remote; USD 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading renewable energy company is hiring a fully remote Senior Site Reliability Engineer to enhance their infrastructure and drive performance improvements. In this role, you'll shape the SRE culture and work on key projects involving cloud infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines, offering a competitive salary and benefits.

Benefits

Over 30 days of vacation

Sick pay and other benefits

Travel to Sicily, Italy for company retreat

Qualifications

• Years of experience as a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with a strong portfolio.
• Strong foundation in DevOps principles and automation code.
• Kubernetes expertise, database diagnosis, and performance tuning knowledge required.

Responsibilities

• Lead and nurture the SRE team and create a modern SRE culture.
• Maintain and enhance infrastructure-as-code stacks and incident response processes.
• Organize cross-cloud migration for hundreds of servers.

Skills

DevOps principles

Cloud infrastructure

Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

Database performance optimization

Job description

Jun 10, 2025 - BaxEnergy is hiring a remote Senior Site Reliability Engineer. Salary: $60k-$100k. Location: European timezones.

We’re looking for a senior Site Reliability Engineer to join our growing team and help us build robust, scalable systems that support our mission in the renewable energy space. You’ll take ownership of key infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines, and work on projects that improve reliability, performance, and developer experience across the company.

Rather than looking for someone who just ticks boxes, we want someone who understands systems deeply, cares about code quality, and can write clean, maintainable automation code. If you’ve got a strong foundation in DevOps principles, experience with cloud infrastructure and databases, and enjoy enabling teams to move faster and safer, we’d love to meet you.

This role is fully remote.

What You Will Do

• Lead and nurture our SRE team and help create a modern SRE culture
• Create, maintain and update our infrastructure-as-code stack and pipelines
• Optimize and enhance our incident response and disaster recovery processes
• Fine-tune, expand and automate our observability stack and ensure SLOs and SLAs meet the required standards
• Rightsize, optimize and maintain our infrastructure with special regard to Kubernetes, databases, and queues
• Organize and lead cross-cloud migration efforts for hundreds of servers

About You

• Smart and gets things done
• You have years of experience as a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with a strong portfolio of completed projects
• You know how to diagnose and maintain databases and queues for optimal performance at a minimum cost
• You master Kubernetes clusters
• CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices are your forte, and you despise clickOps with a passion
• You have a 4-hour overlap with CET/CEST time zones as our teams are globally distributed
• You’re able to travel to Italy within three months of hiring, and can obtain a visa if needed

Why Join Us

• We are a remote-first company and this is a fully remote position
• We build amazing teams with brilliant, happy, and motivated individuals
• Earn Euro-level salaries with over 30 days of vacation, sick pay, and other benefits
• The role is a permanent full-time position. We invest in people and understand great things happen if we do
• Be part of our exciting company trajectory over the next five years
• Travel to Sicily, Italy once a year for a fully paid company retreat

We support and encourage diversity in our workplace. Applications are welcome from all backgrounds without regard to race, ethnicity, gender, orientation, age, or religion. Please apply even if you don't meet all the criteria listed.