Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Kovoro; Denver, Northern (CO, KY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Kovoro is seeking a Senior SRE to lead reliability initiatives across its platform. You will define SLOs and error budgets, run incident command for major outages, and build self-service infrastructure for product teams. The role emphasizes Go/Python coding and a Kubernetes-based deployment platform.

The team is senior and well-resourced, offering on-call rotation with compensation and a focus on reliability culture among customers who are themselves SRE and DevOps practitioners.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of SRE, infrastructure engineering, or production operations experience.
• Strong proficiency in at least one of Go, Python, or Rust.
• Deep experience with Kubernetes, Terraform, and AWS (or GCP) at production scale.
• Demonstrated ownership of SLOs, error budgets, and incident response programs.
• Comfort writing public-facing postmortems and presenting reliability data to executives.

Responsibilities

• Lead reliability initiatives across the platform—from defining SLOs to incident response.
• Drive portability and reliability through self-service infrastructure for product teams.
• Run incident command for major outages with cross-functional coordination.
• Define and monitor error budgets and reliability metrics for exec reviews.
• Collaborate on Go and Python-based tooling on a Kubernetes-based deployment platform.

Skills

Go

Python

Rust

Kubernetes

Terraform

AWS

SRE/Incident response

Postmortems

SLOs & error budgets

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

AWS

Job description

Our client is a profitable developer-tooling company whose product is used by engineering teams at thousands of software companies for application monitoring and incident management. Their infrastructure runs across three AWS regions with strict 99.95% availability commitments and the SRE team is a senior, well-resourced group of nine.

As Senior SRE you will lead reliability initiatives across the platform — from defining and driving SLOs and error budgets, to running incident command for major outages, to building self-service infrastructure that lets product teams ship safely. You will work in Go and Python, with Terraform for IaC, and a Kubernetes-based deployment platform.

The role offers genuine technical scope, a thoughtful on-call rotation (compensated, capped weeks, frequent retros), and the chance to shape reliability culture at a company whose customers are themselves SRE and DevOps practitioners.

Requirements

• 6+ years of SRE, infrastructure engineering, or production operations experience
• Strong proficiency in at least one of Go, Python, or Rust
• Deep experience with Kubernetes, Terraform, and AWS (or GCP) at production scale
• Demonstrated ownership of SLOs, error budgets, and incident response programs
• Comfort writing public-facing postmortems and presenting reliability data to executives