Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Cloud Platforms

Altium; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Altium is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to ensure the reliability, availability, and performance of our cloud platforms. You will automate operations, improve observability, and work with development teams to build scalable applications in a global SaaS environment.

You will lead incidents, capacity planning, and deployment automation while promoting reliability best practices across engineering teams in San Diego and adjacent locations.

Qualifications

• 6+ years in SRE, DevOps or related role in large-scale environment.
• 3+ years professional experience in software development.
• Software development experience, ideally .NET.
• Strong understanding of SDLC, microservice and HA architecture.
• Observability experience with tools like NewRelic, ELK, Grafana, PagerDuty, OTEL.
• Experience with Kubernetes production clusters, AWS, IOC.
• Experience with CI/CD tooling (Jenkins, Gitlab, GitHub, ArgoCD).
• Knowledge of IaaC (Terraform, Ansible).
• Basic networking knowledge.
• Experience with relational databases (MySQL, Postgres) is a plus.
• Must be a US permanent resident (Citizen or Green Card).

Responsibilities

• Understand how the Altium Cloud Platform works.
• Improve observability: logging, monitoring, and APM for reliability.
• Develop reliability frameworks across regions and environments.
• Educate engineering teams on reliability best practices.
• Contribute to incident response and post-incident analysis.
• Participate in system design, platform management, and capacity planning.
• Collaborate with engineering to improve product stability and manageability.
• Drive automation initiatives, IaC, and deployment streamlining.
• Champion SOO principles for clear service ownership.
• Participate in on-call rotation and drive post-incident improvements.

Skills

SRE/DevOps

Software development

.NET development

SDLC & HA

Observability tools

Kubernetes

AWS

CI/CD tools

Terraform

Ansible

Networking basics

Relational databases

US permanent resident

Tools

NewRelic

ELK

Grafana

PagerDuty

OTEL

Jenkins

Gitlab

GitHub

ArgoCD

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

Altium is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to ensure the reliability, availability, and performance of our cloud platforms. You will automate operations, improve observability, and work with development teams to build scalable applications in a global SaaS environment.

You will lead incidents, capacity planning, and deployment automation while promoting reliability best practices across engineering teams in San Diego and adjacent locations.