Senior Site Reliability Engineer

IRB USA Inspire Resources; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Inspire Brands is hiring two Senior Site Reliability Engineers to build and scale reliable, observable systems for high-traffic, customer-facing platforms. The role blends software engineering with operational excellence to reduce toil and prevent incidents, embedding reliability into system design.

The ideal candidate has hands-on SRE experience, strong programming skills (Python/Go/Java/Node.js), and deep cloud/observability know-how. On-site in Atlanta with 80% on-site presence.

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Software Engineering, or Platform Engineering.
• 2+ years experience with Kubernetes and containerized workloads.
• 4-year degree in Computer Science or related field.

Responsibilities

• Define and manage SLIs, SLOs, and Error Budgets for critical services.
• Drive production readiness reviews and reliability requirements into architecture/design.
• Perform capacity planning, failure mode analysis, and dependency risk assessments.
• Identify systemic reliability risks and drive remediation before customer impact.
• Lead incident response and blameless postmortems focused on systemic fixes.
• Continuously improve detection, response, and recovery processes.
• Build self-healing tooling, automation, and CI/CD safety improvements.

Skills

Python

Go

Java

Node.js

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Kubernetes

Job description

Inspire Brands is hiring two Senior Site Reliability Engineers to help build and scale reliable, resilient, and observable systems supporting high-traffic, customer-facing digital platforms. These role blends software engineering, systems thinking, and operational excellence to reduce toil, prevent incidents, and improve system reliability at scale. The ideal candidate has hands‑on experience applying and implementing SRE principles — not just supporting production systems, but engineering reliability into them.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Reliability Engineering

• Define and manage SLIs, SLOs, and Error Budgets for critical services
• Drive production readiness reviews and reliability requirements into architecture and design
• Perform capacity planning, failure mode analysis, and dependency risk assessments
• Identify systemic reliability risks and drive remediation before they cause customer impact

Observability

• Design monitoring, alerting, logging, and tracing solutions using modern observability tooling
• Improve signal-to-noise ratio and reduce alert fatigue
• Build dashboards and telemetry that reflect true service health, not just infrastructure metrics

Incident Management

• Lead technical response for high-severity incidents
• Drive blameless postmortems and root cause analysis focused on systemic fixes
• Continuously improve detection, response, and recovery processes
• Participate in an on‑call rotation

Automation & Toil Reduction

• Identify and eliminate manual, repetitive operational work through automation
• Build self‑healing systems, tooling, and scripts to reduce human intervention
• Improve CI/CD pipelines and deployment safety (canary, rollback, blue-green)
• Support Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Bicep, or similar)

Performance & Scalability

• Conduct load testing, performance benchmarking, and bottleneck analysis
• Partner with engineering to design systems for horizontal scalability and fault tolerance

Collaboration & Culture

• Partner with engineering teams to implement resiliency patterns (circuit breakers, retries, graceful degradation, rate limiting)
• Mentor engineers on SRE best practices
• Promote a culture of engineering‑driven reliability over reactive operations

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE QUALIFICATIONS

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Software Engineering, or Platform Engineering
• 2+ years experience with Kubernetes and containerized workloads
• 4-year degree in Computer Science or related field

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with chaos engineering or resiliency testing
• Experience with high-volume, high-availability transactional systems
• Experience with AI-assisted observability or operational automation
• Experience making meaningful contributions to internal SRE tooling, frameworks, or platforms

REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, OR ABILITIES

• Strong programming/scripting skills (Python, Go, Java, or Node.js)
• Demonstrated experience defining and operating against SLOs/Error Budgets
• Strong skills in leading incident response and root cause analysis for production systems
• Solid understanding of distributed systems and microservices architecture
• Deep knowledge and expertise in at least one major cloud platform (Azure, AWS, or GCP)
• Expertise with observability platforms and monitoring strategy

This position is based in our Atlanta Support Center, with an expected on‑site presence of 80%.

Inspire is a multi‑brand restaurant company whose portfolio includes more than 33,300 Arby’s, Baskin‑Robbins, Buffalo Wild Wings, Dunkin’, Jimmy John’s, and SONIC restaurants worldwide. We’re made up of some of the world’s most iconic restaurant brands, but we’re much more than just a restaurant company. We’re a team of hundreds of thousands who individually and collectively are changing the way people eat, drink, and gather around the table. We know that food is much more than a staple—it’s an experience. At Inspire, that’s our purpose: to ignite and nourish flavorful experiences. Inspire is a multi‑brand restaurant company whose portfolio includes more than 33,400 Arby’s, Baskin‑Robbins, Buffalo Wild Wings, Dunkin’, Jimmy John’s, and SONIC restaurants across 55 global markets. In an industry facing increasing disruption, our leaders saw an opportunity to build a restaurant company unlike any other – one that brings together differentiated yet complementary brands and aims to make them stronger than they would be on their own. Found inherently in the purposes of our family of brands, we identified a common thread between our restaurants – the capacity to inspire. From guest experience to career development to community well‑being, Inspire plays a role in the lives of millions of people every day. Our brands are diverse, distinctive, and fan favorites. In a sense, you could say we seek those who provide something different than the norm.