- Priority Site Reliability Engineer Remote | Spokane, WA | Salt Lake City, UT | Austin, TX - F[...]

Two Barrels LLC; Austin (TX); Remote; USD 140,000 - 175,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is on the lookout for a dedicated Site Reliability Engineer to ensure seamless system operations. This role emphasizes proactive problem prevention and quick incident resolution, fostering a culture of ownership and continuous improvement. You'll collaborate with DevOps teams to develop tools and automation, enhancing operational effectiveness. If you thrive in a dynamic environment where you can tinker and automate tasks while ensuring system reliability, this opportunity is perfect for you. Join a unique workplace that values curiosity and independence, allowing you to make a significant impact behind the scenes.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience required.
• 2+ years in site reliability engineering or DevOps roles.
• Experience with cloud platforms and infrastructure as code tools.

Responsibilities

• Maintain system stability, security, and efficiency.
• Collaborate with DevOps teams to enhance operational effectiveness.
• Proactively prevent problems and resolve incidents quickly.

Skills

Software Engineering

Site Reliability Engineering

DevOps

Problem Solving

Cloud Platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)

Performance Tuning

Database Optimization

Incident Response

Continuous Improvement

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Pulumi

Kubernetes

Docker

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Sentry

New Relic

Job description

Two Barrels is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to maintain system stability, security, and efficiency. You will collaborate with DevOps teams to develop tools and automation that enhance operational effectiveness.

Your primary responsibility is proactive problem prevention, with quick resolution and learning from incidents when they occur. We emphasize ownership and accountability, fostering a culture of continuous improvement.

If you enjoy troubleshooting complex issues, planning ahead, and ensuring seamless system operation—often unnoticed—this role may suit you.

Location:

Remote | Spokane, WA | Salt Lake City, UT | Austin, TX

Duration:

Full Time

Wage:

up to $175,000/ Year

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of software engineering experience.
• 2+ years in site reliability engineering, DevOps, or infrastructure engineering roles.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and infrastructure as code tools like Terraform, CloudFormation, or Pulumi.
• Proficiency with Kubernetes, Docker, and container orchestration in production.
• Experience with observability and monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Sentry, or New Relic.
• Ability to design and implement highly available, fault-tolerant systems and lead incident response efforts.
• Experience in performance tuning, database optimization, and caching strategies (e.g., PostgreSQL, Redis, Memcached).
• Proven track record of improving reliability, reducing operational toil, and fostering resilience and continuous improvement.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Leadership in reliability initiatives like post-incident reviews, capacity planning, and root cause analysis.
• Experience with Ruby on Rails environments.
• Familiarity with the Grafana observability stack and tools like Alloy, Loki, Tempo, Prometheus.
• In-depth AWS experience, including ECS, EKS, Route 53, etc.
• Ability to collaborate across teams to enhance service reliability and operational excellence.
• Skill in troubleshooting complex production issues and applying SRE best practices.
• Commitment to operational efficiency and system resilience improvements.

Why you might like this job:

You enjoy ensuring systems work smoothly and quietly fixing issues behind the scenes. You prefer alerts that are meaningful and systems that require minimal babysitting.

You have a tinkerer’s spirit—automating tasks, building gadgets, and appreciating clean logs and dashboards.

You seek a workplace that’s unique and trusting, encouraging curiosity and independence, without unnecessary meetings.

If this resonates, this could be your ideal role.

• Enjoying a cool downtown location with easy public transport options?