Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Axiom Pursuits; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

A technology firm is seeking a Lead Site Reliability Engineer to design and implement automated infrastructure and manage Kubernetes workloads. The role involves refining CI/CD pipelines and leading incident response efforts, requiring expertise in Terraform, Prometheus, and Grafana. With over 12 years of industry experience, the ideal candidate will ensure architectural scalability and reliability, emphasizing security and system resilience in a cloud-native environment. This is a pivotal role in delivering highly available and performant systems.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 12 years of industry experience in software and systems engineering.
• Proven ability in designing automated infrastructure.
• Experience with monitoring and observability solutions.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement automated infrastructure.
• Manage containerized workloads within Kubernetes.
• Refine CI/CD pipelines for seamless code deployment.
• Lead incident response and post-mortem analyses.

Skills

Terraform

Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

Prometheus

Grafana

Automation

Security mindset

System resilience

Job description

US Corp. is seeking a Lead Site Reliability Engineer to spearhead our mission of delivering highly available and performant systems. With an average of over 12 years of industry experience, the successful candidate will bridge the gap between software development and systems engineering. You will be responsible for designing and implementing automated infrastructure using Terraform, managing containerized workloads within Kubernetes, and refining our CI/CD pipelines to ensure seamless code deployment. This role requires a deep dive into system internals, identifying bottlenecks, and implementing robust monitoring and observability solutions using Prometheus and Grafana. As a technical leader, you will define and maintain SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs while leading incident response and post-mortem analyses to prevent recurrence. You will work closely with product teams to ensure architectural scalability and reliability from the ground up. The ideal candidate is an automation enthusiast with a proactive mindset toward security, scalability, and system resilience in a cloud-native environment.