Senior Cloud SRE (Remote) — AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform

GoGuardian; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Accident insurance

Life insurance

Retirement savings plan

Paid annual leave

Paid holidays

Paid parental leave

Work from home funds

Wellness checks

Job summary

GoGuardian is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to design, scale, and maintain our cloud infrastructure powering core SaaS products. You’ll partner with engineering teams to improve reliability, performance, and availability across production environments.

The role sits on Tech Foundation, focusing on core cloud infrastructure, shared data services, and developer tooling to enable product teams to deliver software securely and efficiently.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Infrastructure, or DevOps roles supporting production SaaS applications.
• Strong proficiency with AWS core services (including EC2, VPC, S3) along with experience in Serverless frameworks and managed Kubernetes environments like EKS.
• Extensive experience writing and managing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform.
• Familiarity with configuring, troubleshooting, and maintaining data layers such as MongoDB, Redshift, and OpenSearch. Experience with GCP environments or technologies like Firestore is a plus.
• Experience managing or modernizing CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows utilizing systems like Jenkins, AWS CodeBuild/CodePipeline, or GitHub Actions.
• Deep understanding of Linux operating system fundamentals and Unix shell scripting.
• Ability to read and debug code written in JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, or Go to effectively troubleshoot underlying service errors.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with a track record of driving technical decisions and establishing team-wide operational standards.
• Eager to take initiative in a fast-paced, ever-changing, dynamic environment.
• Fueled by the opportunity to truly impact the education landscape.

Responsibilities

• Architect and maintain scalable, secure cloud infrastructure to ensure high availability for core products.
• Enhance observability and monitoring frameworks to deliver highly accurate alerts, minimizing noise and improving incident detection.
• Participate in on-call rotations and lead incident response, ensuring comprehensive post-mortems and RCAs are completed to drive systemic improvements.
• Optimize and modernize deployment pipelines and automation workflows to maximize engineering velocity and operational safety.
• Partner with product development teams to provide infrastructure support, review architectural changes, and promote reliability best practices.
• Implement and uphold robust security standards and compliance controls across all managed cloud infrastructure.

Skills

AWS core services

Serverless

Kubernetes (EKS)

Terraform

CI/CD pipelines

Linux basics

Shell scripting

JavaScript/TypeScript

Python

Go

Communication

Tools

MongoDB

Redshift

OpenSearch

Jenkins

AWS CodeBuild/CodePipeline

GitHub Actions

Job description

GoGuardian is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to design, scale, and maintain our cloud infrastructure powering core SaaS products. You’ll partner with engineering teams to improve reliability, performance, and availability across production environments.

The role sits on Tech Foundation, focusing on core cloud infrastructure, shared data services, and developer tooling to enable product teams to deliver software securely and efficiently.