Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Remote Jobs; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive Salary

Quarterly Bonuses

Unlimited PTO

Unlimited Paid Sick Leave

Remote & Flexible Working

Private Medical Insurance

Financial Support for Life Events

Professional Development Budget

International Exposure

Regular Company Events

Job summary

Embedded Shishya is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join the Infrastructure Squad, a lean, senior team with high ownership. You will maintain reliability, performance, and stability in a fast-paced, real-time production environment.

Responsibilities include managing alerts, on-call rotations, incident RCA, and building observability across a Kubernetes (EKS) stack, while advancing CI/CD pipelines and IaC practices.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on SRE/DevOps experience in large-scale systems.
• Deep knowledge of Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure.
• Experience with GitOps tooling (FluxCD/ArgoCD) and incident response.
• Strong scripting in Python/Go/Node.js.
• Excellent on-call and incident management skills.

Responsibilities

• Own system reliability by actively monitoring platform health, managing alerts, and responding to incidents in real time.
• Participate in 24/7 on-call rotations, taking full ownership of production stability in a high-traffic environment.
• Investigate incidents, perform root cause analysis, and implement long-term fixes to prevent recurrence.
• Build and continuously improve monitoring, alerting, and observability across the Kubernetes ecosystem.
• Deploy, manage, and optimise infrastructure using Terraform, Helm, and GitOps tools.
• Drive automation and proactively improve system resilience, reducing manual intervention and recurring issues.
• Maintain and evolve CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code practices.
• Collaborate closely with engineering teams to support deployments and minimise user impact in a live environment.
• Introduce and integrate new tools and technologies to enhance scalability, reliability, and performance.
• Handle environment-specific requests and ensure smooth day-to-day platform operations under constant load.

Skills

Kubernetes

GitOps

Incident response

AWS

Terraform

Docker

CI/CD

Datadog

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK/CloudWatch

Networking

Scripting (Python/Go/Node.js)

Git

PagerDuty/Opsgenie

Tools

Kubernetes

FluxCD

ArgoCD

AWS

Terraform

Docker

Datadog

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK

CloudWatch

Networking

Python/Go/Node.js scripting

Job description

About the Role

We’re looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join our Infrastructure Squad - a lean & senior team where ownership is high and expectations are even higher. This is a deeply hands‑on role at the core of a high‑traffic system, where you’ll be directly responsible for maintaining reliability, performance, and stability in a fast‑paced environment.

You’ll be working on real‑time production challenges, handling incidents, managing alerts, and being part of a critical on‑call rotation. This role requires resilience, strong decision‑making under pressure, and a proactive mindset to continuously improve systems operating at scale.

If you thrive in high‑load environments, enjoy solving complex production issues, and want to have a direct impact on systems used by millions - this is the place for you.

Key Responsibilities

• Own system reliability by actively monitoring platform health, managing alerts, and responding to incidents in real time
• Participate in 24/7 on‑call rotations, taking full ownership of production stability in a high‑traffic (5–7k RPS) environment
• Investigate incidents, perform root cause analysis, and implement long‑term fixes to prevent recurrence
• Build and continuously improve monitoring, alerting, and observability across the Kubernetes (EKS) ecosystem
• Deploy, manage, and optimise infrastructure using Terraform, Helm, and GitOps tools (Flux/ArgoCD)
• Drive automation and proactively improve system resilience, reducing manual intervention and recurring issues
• Maintain and evolve CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure‑as‑code practices
• Collaborate closely with engineering teams to support deployments and minimise user impact in a live environment
• Introduce and integrate new tools and technologies to enhance scalability, reliability, and performance
• Handle environment‑specific requests and ensure smooth day‑to‑day platform operations under constant load

Requirements

• Strong hands‑on experience with Kubernetes (deployment, scaling, troubleshooting) in high‑load environments
• Experience with GitOps tools such as FluxCD or ArgoCD
• Proven experience in incident response, root cause analysis, and postmortems in production systems
• Solid experience with AWS, Terraform, Docker, and CI/CD pipelines
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, and logging stacks like ELK or CloudWatch
• Strong understanding of networking concepts and protocols
• Proficiency in at least one scripting language (e.g. Python, Go, Node.js)
• Experience working with version control systems (Git)
• Familiarity with incident management tools like PagerDuty, Opsgenie, or similar
• Ability to operate effectively in a fast‑paced, high‑pressure environment with strong ownership and accountability
• Proactive, resilient mindset with a focus on continuous improvement and system stability

What We Offer

• Competitive Salary
• Quarterly Bonuses
• Unlimited Paid Time Off
• Unlimited Paid Sick Leave
• Remote & Flexible Working
• Private Medical Insurance
• Financial Support for Life Events
• Professional Development Budget
• International Exposure
• Regular Company Events

*Benefits may vary depending on location and contractual agreement

Recruitment Process

1. HR Interview (30-45 min)
2. Technical interview (90 min)
3. Final Interview with C-level (60 min)

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