Remote Lead Site Reliability Engineer: Performance & Scaling

Techholding; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Tech Holding is seeking a hands‑on Lead Site Reliability Engineer for a project based assignment. You will establish performance baselines, define SLOs, and drive remediation for scalability and reliability across services, databases, and infrastructure.

This is a hands‑on, cross‑functional role not a pure advisory position. You will partner with engineering, product, and leadership to forecast capacity, run resilience tests, and prepare for major launches and partnerships.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in Site Reliability Engineering and related disciplines.
• Proven ability to support production systems at meaningful scale with latency and availability requirements.
• Deep understanding of observability, capacity planning, and reliability engineering.
• Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure and production distributed systems.
• Experience defining and operating against SLOs, SLIs, and reliability metrics.
• Proficient in load, stress, soak, scalability, and resilience testing.
• Ability to translate performance risks into business implications for leadership.

Responsibilities

• Establish baselines for performance, throughput, latency, and capacity for core workloads.
• Define and maintain SLOs, error budgets, dashboards, alerts, and thresholds.
• Instrument full request paths across services, compute, storage, networks, and caches.
• Identify bottlenecks and coordinate cross-functional remediation with engineering.
• Build capacity models and cost estimates for scaling.
• Lead load, stress, soak, spike, failure, and recovery testing in representative environments.
• Develop demand scenarios for major customers and high-volume events.
• Drive architecture hardening, graceful degradation, and resilience improvements.
• Collaborate on automated performance testing and production release gates.
• Own readiness assessments for pilots, partnerships, and launches.
• Create runbooks for scale events, incidents, and dependency failures.
• Lead incident investigations and incorporate lessons into future work.
• Show business impact of capacity and reliability decisions to leadership.

Skills

Site Reliability

Performance engineering

Platform engineering

Distributed systems

Observability

Cloud infrastructure

SLOs/SLIs

Incident management

Load testing

Job description

Tech Holding is seeking a hands‑on Lead Site Reliability Engineer for a project based assignment. You will establish performance baselines, define SLOs, and drive remediation for scalability and reliability across services, databases, and infrastructure.

This is a hands‑on, cross‑functional role not a pure advisory position. You will partner with engineering, product, and leadership to forecast capacity, run resilience tests, and prepare for major launches and partnerships.