Senior Site Reliability Engineer – Digital Assets

Jobtailor

Arizona

On-site

USD 120,000 - 170,000

Full time

5 days ago

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Job summary

Jobtailor is seeking an experienced software reliability engineer to apply engineering, automation, and DevOps principles across services. You will define SLIs/SLOs, improve observability, and drive CI/CD and IaC practices while mentoring engineers and leading incident response.

Candidates should have 5–8 years in software/SRE roles and be eligible to work in the United States. The role emphasizes collaboration with software teams to ensure reliability, scalability, and operational readiness

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field or equivalent practical experience.
Eligibility to work in the United States for any employer; no visa sponsorship.

Responsibilities

Apply software engineering, automation, and DevOps principles to improve how services are built, tested, deployed, observed, operated, and recovered.
Define, implement, or improve SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and other service-health measures.
Improve observability through metrics, logging, tracing, monitoring, alerting, dashboards, and service-health instrumentation.
Drive continuous improvement across CI/CD, observability, deployment practices, Infrastructure as Code, automation, testing, incident response, capacity management, resilience, and operational readiness.
Identify recurring production issues and translate operational experience into improvements in code, architecture, automation, tooling, and engineering practices.
Partner with Software Engineering teams to incorporate reliability, resiliency, scalability, performance, observability, recoverability, and operational readiness throughout the development lifecycle.
Participate in or lead incident response, troubleshooting, service restoration, and blameless post-incident learning.
Reduce operational toil through software, automation, reusable patterns, and improved engineering practices.
Mentor engineers, share knowledge, and develop reusable solutions and practices.
Own reliability outcomes across multiple services and guide less-experienced engineers.

Skills

Programming languages

Analytical thinking

Problem solving

Communication

Collaboration

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/engineering

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

OCI

Linux/Unix

Containers

Orchestration

Monitoring tools

Logging tools

Dashboards

Job description

Apply software engineering, automation, and DevOps principles to improve how services are built, tested, deployed, observed, operated, and recovered
Use data, evidence, experimentation, and rigorous engineering analysis to identify reliability risks, test assumptions, and guide technical decisions
Define, implement, or improve SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and other service-health measures
Improve observability through metrics, logging, tracing, monitoring, alerting, dashboards, and service-health instrumentation
Drive continuous improvement across CI/CD, observability, deployment practices, Infrastructure as Code, automation, testing, incident response, capacity management, resilience, and operational readiness
Identify recurring or systemic production issues and translate operational experience into improvements in code, architecture, automation, tooling, and engineering practices
Partner with Software Engineering teams to incorporate reliability, resiliency, scalability, performance, observability, recoverability, and operational readiness throughout the development lifecycle
Participate in or lead incident response, troubleshooting, service restoration, and blameless post-incident learning
Reduce operational toil and manual intervention through software, automation, reusable patterns, and improved engineering practices
Mentor engineers, share knowledge, and develop reusable solutions and practices
Own reliability outcomes across multiple services and guide less-experienced engineers

Requirements

Typically 5-8 years of relevant professional experience in Software Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, Systems Engineering, Cloud/Platform Engineering, DevOps, Infrastructure Engineering, Architecture where applicable, or a comparable technical discipline
Experience with software development or scripting using one or more modern programming languages
Experience with software engineering principles, distributed systems, production troubleshooting, automation, and observability appropriate to the level
Experience with public cloud technologies and architectures, preferably AWS, along with infrastructure, networking, Linux/Unix, and modern application architectures appropriate to the level
Demonstrated analytical, problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills appropriate to the scope of the role
Preferred: hands‑on experience with AWS or comparable experience with Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), or Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)
Experience developing, deploying, operating, or improving highly available production software or distributed systems
Experience with CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, containers or orchestration, observability, monitoring, alerting, and software-delivery automation
Experience with SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, incident management, performance analysis, capacity management, resilience testing, disaster recovery, or operational readiness
Experience creating reusable automation, tooling, platforms, patterns, or practices that improve engineering effectiveness
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
Eligibility to work in the United States for any employer at the date of hire; position is ineligible for employment Visa sponsorship
Ability to perform essential functions and physical requirements with or without reasonable accommodation
Ability to work in a normal office environment, primarily sedentary, with extensive computer use and occasional standing, walking, kneeling, and reaching; ability to lift 10 pounds occasionally and/or negligible force frequently; visual acuity, dexterity, and communication ability

Core Competencies

Demonstrates expertise in Software Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering and DevOps principles with a strong focus on automation, observability, and continuous improvement. Proficient in leveraging public cloud technologies and implementing reliability measures such as SLIs and SLOs to enhance service performance and operational readiness.

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