Senior Site Reliability Engineer

SHEIN

San Diego (CA)

On-site

USD 92,400 - 148,800

Full time

14 days+

Get more replies from employers

Send a job-specific resume in minutes.

Benefits offered by this job

Health Savings Account
Flexible Spending Accounts
401(k) Savings Plan
Free weekly catered lunch
Free gym access

Job summary

A global online fashion retailer is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to ensure the reliability of mission-critical systems. This role requires maintaining high availability services, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and managing infrastructure using tools such as Kubernetes and Nginx. Ideal candidates have deep experience in operating large-scale systems, a solid background in Linux and networking, and a passion for problem-solving. Employees enjoy a range of benefits, including health accounts, 401(k) plans, and more.

Qualifications

  • 3+ years of experience with high-traffic production systems.
  • Hands-on experience with troubleshooting distributed systems.
  • Strong communication skills for collaboration across teams.

Responsibilities

  • Maintain mission-critical production systems 24/7.
  • Triage production incidents and analyze root causes.
  • Monitor capacity planning and resource utilization.

Skills

Linux expertise
Networking knowledge
Software engineering in Python or Go
Incident response
Performance optimization
Observability systems (Prometheus, Grafana)

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Kubernetes
Redis
Kafka
APISIX
Elasticsearch

Job description

SHEIN is a global online fashion and lifestyle retailer, offering SHEIN branded apparel and products from a global network of vendors, all at affordable prices. Headquartered in Singapore, with more than 15,000 employees operating from offices around the world, SHEIN is committed to making the beauty of fashion accessible to all, promoting its industry-leading, on-demand production methodology, for a smarter, future-ready industry.

Position Summary

We are seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Official Title: Senior Site Reliability Engineer I) with deep experience operating and evolving large-scale, mission‑critical systems where availability and reliability are non‑negotiable. At SHEIN, Site Reliability Engineers are hybrid software and systems engineers responsible for keeping production services always on while enabling the platform to scale rapidly and safely. In this role, you will own and support complex services and infrastructure, ensuring they consistently meet reliability and performance expectations. The SRE team owns and maintains critical open‑source and in‑house technologies that underpin the platform and serves as a core contributor to major engineering initiatives. We are accountable for driving platform operability forward by reducing incident frequency, minimizing MTTR, and improving system resilience, efficiency, and resource utilization. You will work closely with global, cross‑functional teams to design, build, and evolve observability and operational tooling—including metrics, logs, traces, alerting, and automation—providing deep visibility into system behavior. Through hands‑on engineering and operational excellence, you will proactively identify risks and failure modes, help prevent incidents before they occur, and lead fast, effective responses when they do. To succeed in this role, you will combine strong software engineering skills, solid to deep expertise in Linux, networking, and distributed systems, and a passion for solving problems of scale, complexity, and reliability. Your work will directly contribute to delivering a stable, scalable, and high‑performing experience for customers worldwide.

Job Responsibilities
  • Keep SHEIN’s mission‑critical production systems running 24/7/365, participating in on‑call rotations and acting decisively during incidents.
  • Triage and resolve production incidents, driving root cause analysis and contributing to continuous improvements that reduce MTTR and prevent recurrence.
  • Monitor and manage capacity planning and resource utilization, partnering with cross‑functional teams to ensure systems scale safely while remaining cost‑effective.
  • Own and operate core open‑source infrastructure such as APISIX, Nginx, Kubernetes, Kafka, Elasticsearch, Redis, Consul, Etcd, Zookeeper and other large‑scale distributed systems.
  • Design, build, and maintain observability solutions (metrics, logs, traces, alerting) to improve system visibility, reliability, and resiliency.
  • Automate operational workflows and eliminate manual toil through scripting, tooling, and process improvements.
  • Develop and maintain technical documentation, including runbooks, architecture diagrams, operational procedures, and on‑call playbooks.
  • Work closely with global engineering teams to improve infrastructure reliability and performance through better system design and operational discipline.
Job Requirements
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 3+ years of experience owning and operating large‑scale, high‑traffic, 24/7 production systems, ideally in cloud or cloud‑native environments.
  • Solid foundations in Linux, networking, and distributed systems, with the ability to debug complex production issues end to end.
  • Hands‑on experience with incident response, troubleshooting, and performance optimization in distributed systems.
  • Strong software engineering skills with experience building automation, tooling, or platforms in languages such as Python or Go.
  • Experience operating or supporting open‑source infrastructure components such as APISIX, Nginx, Kubernetes, Kafka, Elasticsearch, Redis, Consul, Etcd, Zookeeper, etc.
  • Experience with observability and monitoring systems (Prometheus, Grafana, Zabbix, etc.) and performance analysis.
  • Familiarity with Git, CI/CD pipelines, and configuration management tools (e.g., Ansible).
  • A strong sense of ownership, a systematic approach to problem‑solving, and a passion for making systems more reliable.
  • Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with geographically distributed teams.
Nice to Have
  • Bilingual fluency in Mandarin and English.
  • Kubernetes Administrator certification or equivalent real‑world experience.
  • Experience operating big data platforms (Hadoop, Yarn, HBase, Hive, Spark).
  • Experience applying AI/LLM‑powered tools to reliability engineering, including designing and building automation or internal tools using AI‑assisted development platforms (e.g., Claude Code).
Benefits and Perks
  • Health Savings Account with Employer Funding
  • Flexible Spending Accounts (Healthcare and Dependent care)
  • Company‑Paid Basic Life/AD&D insurance
  • Company‑Paid Short‑Term and Long‑Term Disability
  • Voluntary Benefit Offerings (Voluntary Life/AD&D, Hospital Indemnity, Critical Illness, and Accident)
  • Employee Assistance Program
  • Business Travel Accident Insurance
  • 401(k) Savings Plan with discretionary company match and access to a financial advisor
  • Vacation, paid holidays, floating holiday and sick days
  • Free weekly catered lunch
  • Dog‑friendly office (available at select locations)
  • Free gym access (available at select locations)
  • Free swag giveaways
  • Annual Holiday Party
  • Invitations to pop‑ups and other company events
  • Complimentary daily office snacks and beverages

Pay Range: $92,400 - $148,800 USD

Get your free, confidential resume review.
or drag and drop your file here.
Similar jobs

Similar jobs worth comparing

Staff Site Reliability Engineer
Staff Site Reliability Engineer

SHEIN • San Diego (CA)

On-site
USD 108,000 - 180,000
Bonus and RSU eligibility
Health Savings Account with Employer Funding
Flexible Spending Accounts
+3
Database Engineer
Database Engineer

SHEIN U.S. • San Diego (CA)

On-site
USD 86,000 - 138,000
Healthcare benefits
401(k) plan
Paid time off
+2
Senior Industrial Engineer
Senior Industrial Engineer

SHEIN • Whitestown (IN)

On-site
USD 90,000 - 130,000
Health Savings Account (HSA)
Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
Company-Paid Life/AD&D insurance
+6
Staff Database Engineer
Staff Database Engineer

JobCubby • San Diego (CA)

Hybrid
USD 150,000 - 200,000
Bonus and RSU eligible
Healthcare (medical, dental, vision)
HSA with Employer Funding
+6
Industrial Engineering Manager
Industrial Engineering Manager

SHEIN • Bellevue (WA)

On-site
USD 120,000 - 166,000
Health Savings Account with Employer 

Flexible Spending Accounts
Company‑Paid Basic Life/AD&D
+7
Database Engineer
Database Engineer

SHEIN • San Diego (CA)

On-site
USD 86,000 - 138,000
Health Savings Account with Employer Funding
Flexible Spending Accounts
401(k) Savings Plan
+2
Director of Industrial Engineering
Director of Industrial Engineering

SHEIN • Whitestown (IN)

On-site
USD 120,000 - 180,000
Health Savings Account
Flexible Spending Accounts
Company-Provided Disability Insurance
+4
Senior Process Design Specialist
Senior Process Design Specialist

SHEIN • Whitestown (IN)

On-site
USD 120,000 - 150,000
Health Savings Account with Employer F
Flexible Spending Accounts (Healthcare
Company-Paid Insurance
+2
Senior Data Engineer
Senior Data Engineer

Socket.dev • San Diego (CA)

On-site
USD 123,000 - 178,000
Bonus eligible
Healthcare (medical, dental, vision)
401(k) Savings Plan
+1
Merchant Operations Specialist II
Merchant Operations Specialist II

SHEIN • Los Angeles (CA)

On-site
USD 30,000 - 34,000
Health Savings Account with Employer F
Flexible Spending Accounts
Company-Paid Life/AD&D
+10