Remote SRE: AWS, Kubernetes, Automation

Instrumental; California; Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Vision insurance

Dental insurance

Commuter plans

Parental leave

Job summary

Instrumental is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to operate, improve, and scale our AWS-based SaaS platform. You will work across reliability, automation, and observability while participating in a bi-weekly on-call rotation to reduce operational complexity as we grow the platform and customer base.

Join a high-growth team offering a hybrid remote work model in California, with a base salary range, and a benefits program including health, vision, dental, commuter plans, and parental leave.

Qualifications

• 3–4 years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, Cloud Operations, Platform Engineering, or Systems Engineering supporting production SaaS environments.
• Strong hands‑on experience with AWS, including EC2, VPC, IAM, RDS, ECS, and S3.
• Experience managing infrastructure using Terraform or other Infrastructure as Code technologies.
• Experience designing and supporting CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, or similar platforms.
• Strong experience with monitoring and observability tools, preferably Datadog, including dashboards, alerting, logging, and APM.
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Scripting experience with Python and/or Bash.
• Experience supporting production environments through an on‑call rotation, including incident response and root cause analysis.
• Proven ability to take ownership of production issues and drive them through investigation, remediation, and long‑term resolution.

Responsibilities

• Operate, improve, and scale our AWS-based SaaS platform.
• Combine hands-on production operations with engineering focusing on reliability, automation, observability, and operational excellence.
• Bi-weekly on-call rotation with goal to engineer away operational complexity as we scale.

Skills

AWS

Terraform

CI/CD

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Datadog

Docker

Kubernetes

Python

Bash

On-call

Incident response

Root cause analysis

Job description

Instrumental is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to operate, improve, and scale our AWS-based SaaS platform. You will work across reliability, automation, and observability while participating in a bi-weekly on-call rotation to reduce operational complexity as we grow the platform and customer base.

Join a high-growth team offering a hybrid remote work model in California, with a base salary range, and a benefits program including health, vision, dental, commuter plans, and parental leave.