Remote Senior SRE – Blockchain Reliability & Observability

Framework Ventures; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 158,440 - 188,147; Full time

Job summary

Ava Labs is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join our engineering team. You will own release pipelines, environments, observability, and monitoring of critical components of the Avalanche blockchain network. You will drive efficiency and velocity while maintaining reliability and security.

We value hands-on expertise in AWS, Kubernetes, IaC, and observability tooling. This role includes on-call rotations and a focus on cost optimization and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• BS in Computer Science or related field.
• 7+ years of experience as an SRE, DevOps, or Cloud Engineer.
• Strong grasp of SRE principles, including error budgets, SLOs, and SLIs.
• Cloud networking and orchestration with AWS (EKS, ECS, VPC, S3, ELB).
• Strong Kubernetes experience with Docker or RKT containerization.

Responsibilities

• Develop and optimize highly reliable and scalable infrastructure focused on best practices and SRE principles.
• Implement and maintain monitoring, logging, and tracing tools to gain insights into service behavior and health.
• Uphold SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets for critical systems.
• Enhance reliability and resiliency of critical systems by identifying single points of failure and implementing best practices.
• Deploy and monitor observability tools and dashboards for monitoring and optimization using Datadog and Grafana.
• Develop infrastructure deployment scripts including terraform, terragrunt, and Argo CD for production and test environments.
• Improve the development release pipeline automation and quality gates in GitHub Actions.
• Work closely with developers to increase productivity and efficiency of the team.
• Identify areas of cost optimization and reduction and execute cost reduction measures.
• Automate and streamline incident management processes to minimize disruption and improve response times.
• Participate in on‑call rotations, ensuring quick restoration of services and fostering a blameless post‑mortem culture.
• Foster a continuous improvement mindset by analyzing incidents and implementing preventive measures.
• Leverage cloud technologies and IaC tools to ensure scalability and repeatability.
• Advocate for best practices in reliability, security, and maintainability within the team.

Skills

SRE/DevOps

AWS

Kubernetes

IaC

Monitoring

CI/CD

Automation

Python/Go

Distributed systems

Education

BS in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes tooling

Terraform

Terragrunt

Ansible

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Job description

Ava Labs is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join our engineering team. You will own release pipelines, environments, observability, and monitoring of critical components of the Avalanche blockchain network. You will drive efficiency and velocity while maintaining reliability and security.

We value hands-on expertise in AWS, Kubernetes, IaC, and observability tooling. This role includes on-call rotations and a focus on cost optimization and continuous improvement.