Senior Site Reliability Engineer: Build Resilient, Scalable Systems

Inspire-Brands; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Inspire Brands is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to build, scale, and improve reliability for our high-traffic, customer-facing digital platforms. You will blend software engineering, systems thinking, and operational excellence to reduce toil and incidents while engineering reliability into systems.

You will define SLIs/SLOs, drive incident responses, automate toil, and collaborate with engineering to design scalable, observable architectures across cloud platforms.

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Software Engineering, or Platform Engineering.
• 2+ years experience with Kubernetes and containerized workloads.
• 4-year degree in Computer Science or related field.
• Strong programming/scripting skills (Python, Go, Java, or Node.js).
• Experience with chaos engineering or resiliency testing is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Define and manage SLIs, SLOs, and Error Budgets for critical services.
• Drive production readiness reviews and reliability requirements into architecture and design.
• Perform capacity planning, failure mode analysis, and dependency risk assessments.
• Identify systemic reliability risks and drive remediation before customer impact.
• Design monitoring, alerting, logging, and tracing solutions using modern tooling.
• Lead technical response for high-severity incidents and conduct blameless postmortems.
• Continuously improve detection, response, and recovery processes.
• Automate toil reduction and build self-healing capabilities.
• Support Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Bicep or similar) and CI/CD improvements.
• Partner with engineering for horizontal scalability and fault tolerance.

Skills

Python/Go/Java/Node.js

SRE principles

Incident response

Distributed systems

Cloud platforms

Education

4-year degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

Bicep

Azure/AWS/GCP

Job description

Inspire Brands is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to build, scale, and improve reliability for our high-traffic, customer-facing digital platforms. You will blend software engineering, systems thinking, and operational excellence to reduce toil and incidents while engineering reliability into systems.

You will define SLIs/SLOs, drive incident responses, automate toil, and collaborate with engineering to design scalable, observable architectures across cloud platforms.