Lead Site Reliability Engineer - Scale & Reliability

Doist; United States; Remote; USD 170,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Tech Holding is seeking a hands-on Lead Site Reliability Engineer to elevate the performance, reliability, and scalability of our platform. You will work across application services, infrastructure, databases, networking, caches, queues, and external dependencies to identify bottlenecks and lead remediation.

This is not a traditional DevOps role or an advisory architecture position. You will partner with engineering, product, and leadership to define SLOs, instrument the full request path, build

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in Site Reliability Engineering or related discipline.
• Experience supporting production systems with scale, latency, or availability requirements.
• Strong understanding of observability, capacity planning, and reliability engineering.
• Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure and distributed systems.
• Experience defining and operating against SLOs/SLIs and production reliability metrics.

Responsibilities

• Establish baselines for throughput, latency, and capacity of critical platform journeys.
• Define and maintain SLOs, error budgets, dashboards, alerts, and reliability thresholds.
• Instrument the full request path across services, compute, storage, networking, and databases.
• Identify bottlenecks and lead cross-functional remediation with engineering teams.
• Build capacity models showing scale and cost implications for future growth.
• Lead load, stress, soak, spike, and recovery testing in representative environments.
• Develop realistic demand scenarios for major customers and partnerships.
• Drive resilience improvements and graceful degradation planning.
• Establish automated performance testing and production release gates with CI/CD.
• Own readiness assessments for major pilots and launches.

Skills

SRE principles

Observability

Cloud infrastructure

Distributed systems

SLOs/SLIs

Load testing

Incident management

Performance tuning

Tools

Kubernetes

Cloud platforms

Job description

Tech Holding is seeking a hands-on Lead Site Reliability Engineer to elevate the performance, reliability, and scalability of our platform. You will work across application services, infrastructure, databases, networking, caches, queues, and external dependencies to identify bottlenecks and lead remediation.

This is not a traditional DevOps role or an advisory architecture position. You will partner with engineering, product, and leadership to define SLOs, instrument the full request path, build