Lead Site Reliability Engineer

Iscale Solutions; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Vacation and sick leave credits

Professional development

Team engagement and wellness programs

Inclusive culture

Modern tooling and platforms

Career growth opportunities

Referral rewards

Job summary

Isca le Solutions is seeking a skilled Site Reliability Engineer to implement and manage SLOs/SLIs, error budgets, and incident response. You will design observability with OpenTelemetry, build resilient systems, and drive continuous improvement across cloud and on-prem environments.

You will lead on-call rotations, automate detections, and collaborate with development and operations teams to ensure scalable, high-performance services.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of experience as an SRE in cloud and on-prem environments.

Responsibilities

• Define and manage SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets to drive reliability.

Skills

SRE experience

Linux expertise

Networking

Shell scripting

Python

Go

Chaos Engineering

OpenTelemetry

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS

Terraform

Pulumi

OpenTelemetry

Honeycomb

Grafana

Prometheus

Thanos

ELK

Loki

Job description

Implement and manage Service Level Objectives (SLOs), Service Level Indicators (SLIs), and error budgets to drive reliability efforts.

Develop systems that are resilient to failures and ensure 99.9%+ uptime for critical services.

Lead incident response and post-incident reviews (blameless postmortems), ensuring robust root cause analysis and continuous improvement of systems.

Automate incident detection and response using automated runbooks or predefined workflows.

Write software as needed to support reliability or efficiency needs.

Design and implement full observability across systems using modern tools like Open Telemetry for tracing, metrics, and logging.

Use capacity planning, forecasting, and performance testing to ensure that the systems scale effectively as the user base and load grow.

Collaborate with development and operations teams on building reliable, scalable, and high-performance services.

Ensure best practices are followed across infrastructure design, deployment, and maintenance using tools like AWS, Kubernetes, EKS, Fargate, etc.

Champion Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to provision, manage, and scale infrastructure using tools like Terraform, Pulumi, or similar.

Get involved in chaos engineering initiatives.

Participate on our on-call rotation.

Drive advanced alerting and anomaly detection applied to metrics

Requirements

3-5 years of experience as an SRE, working in cloud-based environments and on-prem environments.

Deep understanding of Linux systems, networking, and systems administration.

Experience with cloud platforms like AWS, with a strong understanding of Kubernetes and container orchestration tools.

Hands-on experience with observability tools such as Honeycomb, Grafana, Prometheus, Thanos, ELK (Elastic Stack), or Loki.

Strong skills in at least one programming language (Python, Go) to write production level code.

Strong skills in shell scripting using bash or similar. Experience with OpenTelemetry or other distributed tracing systems, including tracing, metrics, and logs integration.

Experience with Chaos Engineering methodologies and tools (Chaos Mesh, chaos monkey, AWS Fault Injection Simulator, etc.

Competitive Salary Package: Receive a pay package that matches your skills and experience.

Vacation and Sick Leave credits: Enjoy vacation and sick leave credits to maintain work-life balance.

Health Coverage: Get medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your dependents.

Government-Mandated Benefits: Full coverage of all statutory benefits like SSS, PhilHealth, and Pag-IBIG.

Learning Opportunities: Access training, certifications, and mentorship to grow your career.

Team Engagement: Join team-building activities and wellness programs.

Modern Tools: Use the latest technology to excel in your role.

Career Growth: Clear paths for promotion and professional development.

Inclusive Culture: Be part of a diverse, supportive, and collaborative global team.

Referral Rewards: Earn bonuses for bringing great talent to the team.