Remote Site Reliability Engineer — Scale & Observability

Orkes

United States

Remote

USD 180,000 - 250,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive health coverage

Flexible PTO

Support for personal development

Job summary

Orkes is hiring a Site Reliability Engineer to scale our cloud-native platform and keep services highly available across regions. You’ll own reliability, observe systems, and automate workflows in collaboration with product and engineering teams.

You have 5+ years in SRE/DevOps, strong Kubernetes, cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure), and hands-on tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, OpenTelemetry, Terraform). This remote-friendly role offers high autonomy and impactful work shaping cloud orchestration and

Qualifications

5+ years in SRE/DevOps/Platform Engineering or related roles.
Strong knowledge of modern cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure).
Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and containerized environments.
Proficiency with observability and incident-management tooling.

Responsibilities

Own reliability, availability, and performance of production systems in cloud environments.
Define and monitor SLIs/SLOs and manage error budgets.
Lead incident response including detection, triage, and postmortems.
Improve observability with logging, monitoring, alerts, and dashboards.
Automate operational workflows to reduce manual toil.
Collaborate with engineering to improve resiliency and scalability.
Assist with capacity planning and performance tuning.
Develop internal tooling, runbooks, and best practices.
Support Kubernetes-based infrastructure and distributed systems at scale.
Act as escalation point for complex production issues.