Senior Cloud SRE: AWS Serverless & Reliability

MeridianLink; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

MeridianLink is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to own the day-to-day operations of our cloud platform. You will manage AWS accounts, databases, backups, and production monitoring to keep our fully serverless stack healthy and scalable.

You will drive reliability improvements across deployment, incident response, and runbooks, partnering with engineering to automate, optimize costs, and ensure rapid restoration after outages while maintaining secure, compliant infrastructure.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in a related field.
• 5+ years in DevOps/SRE/operations with production systems.
• 3+ years hands-on AWS experience with serverless services.
• Strong database administration and backup/recovery experience.
• Scripting in TypeScript, Python, or Bash for automation.
• Familiarity with Linux, networking, TLS, and IaC (SST, Pulumi, Terraform).

Responsibilities

• Own day-to-day AWS accounts, services, and access management.
• Manage backups across databases and S3, and disaster recovery.
• Monitor production with CloudWatch and alerting; address issues proactively.
• Lead incident response, runbooks, and on-call rotation.
• Improve infrastructure as code for deployability, cost visibility, and scalability.
• Share knowledge to foster learning and growth.

Skills

DevOps

SRE

AWS

Serverless

Automation

Incident Response

Linux

Monitoring

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

SST

Pulumi

Terraform

GitHub Actions

CloudWatch

PostgreSQL

S3

Docker

Job description

MeridianLink is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to own the day-to-day operations of our cloud platform. You will manage AWS accounts, databases, backups, and production monitoring to keep our fully serverless stack healthy and scalable.

You will drive reliability improvements across deployment, incident response, and runbooks, partnering with engineering to automate, optimize costs, and ensure rapid restoration after outages while maintaining secure, compliant infrastructure.