Senior Site Reliability Engineer

coalition; United States; Remote; USD 159,000 - 234,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) match

Flexible PTO

Paid parental leave

Home office stipend

Coworking access

Wellness programs

Job summary

Coalition is seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to build and operate cloud infrastructure and a self-serve platform for software teams. You’ll own projects from planning through rollout, shaping engineering standards and reliability practices.

Responsibilities include designing production environments in AWS with IaC, improving resilience, and leading infra projects while mentoring engineers. A remote-first team and competitive benefits are offered.

Qualifications

• 6+ years in site reliability, DevOps, cloud engineering, or software development.
• Hands-on AWS production workloads and Terraform proficiency.
• Go or Python production automation experience.
• Experience with ECS or Kubernetes and GitHub Actions.
• Strong observability and reliability design practices.

Responsibilities

• Design and scale production environments in AWS via IaC.
• Improve resilience with failure testing, automated recovery, and capacity planning.
• Build reusable platform components and self-service tooling.
• Set observability practices for metrics and SLOs.
• Lead infra projects from scoping to launch.
• Mentor engineers and participate in a low-volume on-call rotation.

Skills

Site reliability

DevOps

Cloud engineering

Go

Python

Observability

Leadership

Communication

Tools

Terraform

AWS

GitHub Actions

ECS

Kubernetes

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Role overview

Build and operate the cloud infrastructure and internal platform that help software teams deliver reliable, secure services. The work spans infrastructure automation, observability, resilience, and developer self-service, with ownership of projects from planning through rollout and a role in setting engineering standards.

Responsibilities

• Design and scale production environments in AWS using infrastructure as code.
• Improve resilience through failure testing, automated recovery, and capacity planning.
• Build reusable platform components and self-service tools that reduce repetitive work for development teams.
• Set observability practices for metrics, distributed tracing, and service-level objectives.
• Lead infrastructure projects from scoping and estimates through implementation and launch.
• Mentor engineers, contribute to technical design decisions, and participate in a low-volume on-call rotation.

Requirements

• Six or more years of experience in site reliability, DevOps, cloud engineering, or software development.
• Hands-on experience operating production workloads in AWS and strong Terraform skills.
• Proficiency in Go or Python, including production-quality automation, tools, or libraries.
• Experience with container orchestration such as ECS or Kubernetes and familiarity with CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions.
• Knowledge of observability, reliability practices, and reusable platform design.
• Clear communication and leadership skills, including the ability to promote reliability practices.

Nice to have

• Experience with microservices, Kafka or other event streaming systems, internal developer platforms, or self-service infrastructure.
• Familiarity with system security, compliance, or hardening.

Benefits and work setup

The role is part of a remote-first team. The stated U.S. base salary range is $158,900-$234,125, varying by geographic market and qualifications. Benefits include medical, dental, and vision coverage, a matched 401(k), flexible paid time off, paid parental leave, a home office stipend, coworking access, and wellness programs.