Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Ancestry; United States; Hybrid; USD 106,000 - 119,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental

Vision

Bonus

Equity

Job summary

Ancestry is seeking a highly skilled IT operations professional for a night shift (10 pm–6 am MST, Mon–Thu) to support a 24x7 Command Center. You will monitor cloud, network, and databases; develop AI-driven workflow contexts; and partner with engineering teams to reduce incident times.

Candidates should have 4+ years in high-availability environments and strong scripting skills. The role requires experience with AWS, New Relic, CI/CD tools, and incident reporting.

Qualifications

• 4+ years in a continual, high-availability enterprise production environment.
• 4+ years in managing and monitoring AWS technologies and services with tools like New Relic or AWS Application Signals.
• 2+ years in an enterprise level NOC or Command Center environment.
• 2+ years in developing AI agentic workflows and knowledge of prompt engineering, context management, and AI SDLC.
• 4+ years in scripting, automation, and software development with languages (e.g. Python, Java, Bash, PowerShell).
• Understanding of TCP/IP LAN/WAN networking technologies and troubleshooting techniques, virtualization, firewalls, load balancers, IDS and proxies.
• Experience with relational and NoSQL databases (MSSQL, MySQL, Cassandra, CouchDB).
• Knowledge of CI/CD tools like Harness, Chef, or Puppet.

Responsibilities

• Provide frontline support for a complex system across cloud infrastructure, databases, and networks.
• Analyze data from monitoring tools and act on patterns and anomalies.
• Collaborate with development teams to shorten incident detection and resolution times.
• Coordinate with on-call groups and executives during outages.
• Report on incident cases via automation tools and ticket systems.
• Create and maintain AI-guided workflow context and related docs.
• Assist automation/tool development to reduce toil.
• Participate in team meetings and projects, independently or as assigned.
• Be available to cover days, weekends, and holidays.

Skills

High-availability ops

AWS experience

NOC/Command Center

AI workflow design

Scripting/Automation

Tools

New Relic

AWS

Harness

Chef

Puppet

Job description

About Ancestry:

When you join Ancestry, you join a human-centered company where every person’s story is important. Ancestry®, the global leader in family history, connects everyone with their past so they can discover, preserve, and share their unique family stories. With our unparalleled collection of more than 65 billion records, over 3.5 million subscribers, and over 27 million people in our growing DNA network, customers can discover their family story and gain a new level of understanding about their lives. Over the past 40 years, we’ve built trusted relationships with millions of people who have chosen us as the platform for discovering, preserving, and sharing the most important information about themselves and their families. We are committed to our location flexible work approach, allowing you to choose to work in the nearest office, from your home, or a hybrid of both (subject to location restrictions and roles that are required to be in the office- see the full list of eligible US locations HERE). We will continue to hire and promote beyond the boundaries of our office locations, to enable broadened possibilities for employee diversity. Together, we work every day to foster a work environment that’s inclusive as well as diverse, and where our people can be themselves. Every idea and perspective is valued so that our products and services reflect the global and diverse clients we serve. Ancestry encourages applications from minorities, women, the disabled, protected veterans and all other qualified applicants.

What you'll do…

• Provide frontline support, including the ability to provide technical solutions, for a complex system including a variety of cloud infrastructure technologies, databases, and network systems
• Analyze data from monitoring tools and take appropriate actions based on patterns, outliers, or anomalies
• Partner with development teams to find ways to reduce the time to issue detection and resolution
• Manage bridges with on‑call rotational support groups and executives during outage events or as deemed necessary
• Report on Incident cases through our automation tools and ticket tracking system
• Research, proof, and author technical documentation
• Create and maintain AI agentic workflow context
• Assist in automation and tool development to reduce toil
• Participate in team meetings and team projects - both independently and as assigned
• Be available to cover other shifts (i.e.: days, weekends, and holidays)

This position is for a night shift from 10 pm – 6 AM MST, Monday-Thursday. The Command Center is a 24x7x365 operation and you will work some holidays

Who you are...

• 4+ years in a continual, high‑availability enterprise production environment
• 4+ years in managing and monitoring AWS technologies and services with tools like New Relic or AWS Application Signals
• 2+ years in an enterprise level NOC or Command Center environment
• 2+ years in developing AI agentic workflows and knowledge of best practices in prompt engineering, context management, and AI SDLC
• 4+ years in scripting, automation, and software development with knowledge of various languages (e.g. Python, Java,, Bash, Powershell)
• Demonstrated logical thought processes through new technologies, systems, concepts and procedures, and the ability to use reports and data to improve operational results
• Document issues leveraging defined processes
• An understanding of TCP/IP LAN/WAN networking technologies and troubleshooting techniques, virtualization technologies
• Knowledge of hardware or software‑based firewalls, load balancers, intrusion detection systems and proxy servers
• Knowledge of relational and NoSQL database technology query languages (MSSQL, MySQL, Cassandra and CouchDB, etc)
• Knowledge of CI/CD tools like Harness, Chef, or Puppet

Why Ancestry?

Join a dedicated team working to connect millions of people with their past and enrich their futures. At Ancestry, you will play a role in pioneering legal solutions that shape the consumer genomics industry. Your contributions will help protect the privacy and stories of our customers while supporting a brand recognized and trusted around the world. We offer a collaborative workplace, competitive compensation, and the opportunity to make a meaningful difference.

Compensation

As a signatory of the ParityPledge in Support of Women and the ParityPledge in Support of People of Color, Ancestry values pay transparency and pay equity. We are pleased to share the base hourly range for this position: $106,029 - $118,503 with eligibility for bonus, equity and comprehensive benefits including health, dental and vision. The actual salary will vary by geographic region and job experience. *Note: Disclosure as required by sb19-085(8-5-20) and sb1162(1-1-23).

Additional Information:

Ancestry is an Equal Opportunity Employer that makes employment decisions without regard to race, color, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, mental or physical disability, medical condition, military or veteran status, citizenship, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. In addition, Ancestry will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. All job offers are contingent on a background check screen that complies with applicable law. For candidates who live in San Francisco, CA, pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, Ancestry will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. Ancestry is not accepting unsolicited assistance from search firms for this employment opportunity. All resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at Ancestry via-email, the Internet or in any form and/or method without a valid written search agreement in place for this position will be deemed the sole property of Ancestry. No fee will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by Ancestry as a result of the referral or through other means.

Let’s write the next chapter of history together. Our employees are fueled by our inquisitive nature and united by our shared commitment to help people discover, craft, and connect their family history. Whether you’re a natural problem solver, a strategic builder, an inspired creative, or something in between—we invite you to share your story and join us in making history.