Senior Site Reliability Engineer & Observability Architect

Early Warning Services LLC; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 173,000 - 259,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare coverage

401(k) retirement plan with company 6%

Paid time off and holidays

Parental leave benefits

Maven Family Planning program

Job summary

Early Warning Services LLC seeks a Principal Site Reliability Engineer to partner with development teams on availability and resiliency patterns across applications and infrastructure.

You will design and implement tooling to improve performance, scalability, and security, build observability, manage on-call rotations, and mentor teammates in modern microservice design and reliability practices. Hybrid work model expected.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS or related field.
• 12+ years leading large complex technical projects.
• Proven ability to lead incidents and perform RCA.
• Strong troubleshooting in complex environments.
• Hands-on design and development with Python/Go/Java; Docker; microservices; Kafka/SQS/JMS; databases; caching.
• Linux administration and CI/CD tooling experience.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement software to improve availability, scalability, and latency.
• Support risk management and data security across systems.
• Build automation around deployments, config changes, and DR scenarios.
• Design observability and monitoring to proactively detect issues.
• Evaluate application capacity and advise on scaling needs.
• Lead cross-functional teams to develop technical solutions.

Skills

Python

Go

Java

Microservices

Linux

Networking

CI/CD

Incident management

Troubleshooting

Cross-functional teamwork

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Docker

Kafka

SQS

JMS

Git

Maven

Jenkins

AWS

Kubernetes

Job description

Early Warning Services LLC seeks a Principal Site Reliability Engineer to partner with development teams on availability and resiliency patterns across applications and infrastructure.

You will design and implement tooling to improve performance, scalability, and security, build observability, manage on-call rotations, and mentor teammates in modern microservice design and reliability practices. Hybrid work model expected.