Hybrid Senior SRE: Reliability & Observability Lead

Early Warning

Chicago (IL)

Hybrid

USD 101,000 - 153,000

Full time

14 hours ago
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Healthcare Coverage
401(k) Match
Paid Time Off

Job summary

Early Warning is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to improve reliability, observability, and operational health of production services. You will partner with Software Engineering and other tech teams to ensure resiliency, performance, and scalable systems across services.

Senior SREs mentor others, influence engineering choices, and own reliability outcomes. The role emphasizes automation, incident response, and sustainable engineering practices within a hybrid work environment.

Qualifications

  • Typically 5–8 years of experience in Software/SRE/Systems/Cloud/DevOps or related field.
  • Experience with software engineering principles, distributed systems, production troubleshooting, automation, and observability.
  • Experience with public cloud technologies, preferably AWS, infrastructure, Linux/Unix, and modern architectures.
  • Demonstrated analytical, problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

  • Apply software and systems engineering to improve reliability, resilience, and performance of production services.
  • Define, implement, and improve SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, and service-health metrics.
  • Improve observability through metrics, logs, tracing, monitoring, and dashboards.
  • Drive CI/CD, IaC, automation, testing, incident response, and capacity management.

Skills

SRE experience
Distributed systems
DevOps practices
Observability
Cloud AWS
Automation

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

AWS
Kubernetes
CI/CD
IaC
Docker

Job description

Early Warning is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to improve reliability, observability, and operational health of production services. You will partner with Software Engineering and other tech teams to ensure resiliency, performance, and scalable systems across services.

Senior SREs mentor others, influence engineering choices, and own reliability outcomes. The role emphasizes automation, incident response, and sustainable engineering practices within a hybrid work environment.

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