On-Prem Reliability Engineer

OpsMill; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

OpsMill is seeking a Production Engineer / SRE to help ensure Infrahub deployments are reliable across diverse Kubernetes environments. You will act as a bridge between customer escalations and engineering, building diagnostics and automation to prevent recurring issues.

The role emphasizes deep debugging, collaboration with cross-functional teams, and delivering robust, production-grade tooling in Python, Go, or Rust.

Qualifications

• 4-7 years of experience in production engineering, SRE, platform engineering, or similar roles.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals including design, debugging, testing, code review.
• Practical Kubernetes expertise to debug real deployments across distributions.
• Deep troubleshooting instincts and observability using logs, metrics, and traces.
• Experience with at least one of Python, Go, or Rust for tooling and product code.
• Excellent problem decomposition and communication skills.
• Self-directed remote work capability with strong async communication.
• Collaborative mindset with cross-functional partnerships to drive improvements.

Responsibilities

• Partner directly with customers and with our Solution Architecture/Customer Success teams on L2/L3 escalations across heterogeneous Kubernetes environments.
• Drive issues to resolution by reproducing problems locally and coordinating fixes with engineering.
• Build and maintain diagnostics tooling including support bundles, health checks, and environment validators.
• Own the test automation infrastructure roadmap, improving CI stability and reducing flaky tests.
• Establish and maintain performance baselines and regression tests as actionable gates.
• Improve installation and upgrade robustness by identifying recurring failure modes and automating fixes.
• Write production-quality code in Python, Go, or Rust for internal tooling and product improvements.
• Close the reliability feedback loop by turning field issues into better tests and documentation.

Skills

Production engineering

SRE

Platform engineering

Kubernetes

Observability

Python

Go

Rust

Communication

Remote work

Collaboration

Job description

OpsMill is seeking a Production Engineer / SRE to help ensure Infrahub deployments are reliable across diverse Kubernetes environments. You will act as a bridge between customer escalations and engineering, building diagnostics and automation to prevent recurring issues.

The role emphasizes deep debugging, collaboration with cross-functional teams, and delivering robust, production-grade tooling in Python, Go, or Rust.