Senior Site Reliability Engineer — Remote, Scalable Systems

PrizePicks; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

PrizePicks is seeking a highly skilled Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join our team and ensure the reliability, scalability, and performance of our infrastructure as we scale. You will design, implement, and monitor production systems at scale, lead incident response, and mentor other engineers.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years in reliability-focused roles, deep experience with cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP), Kubernetes, Terraform/Crossplane, and observability tools like Grafana, New

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience as a reliability-focused engineer in a fast-paced, rapidly growing, enterprise environment.
• Cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, and/or GCP.
• Infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform or Crossplane.
• Developing applications in languages such as Python, Ruby, or Go.
• Deploying and supporting applications in Kubernetes at scale.
• Implementing monitoring in Grafana, New Relic, or Datadog.
• Experience debugging live, critical production issues.
• Familiarity with reliability principles, such as resilient systems, security, and SLO governance.
• Ability to work cross-functionally with diverse engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, maintain, and monitor reliable production systems at scale.
• Lead incident response, mitigate production issues, and conduct post mortem analysis.
• Proactively monitor performance, analyze system failures, identify bottlenecks, and propose solutions.
• Create and support observability/monitoring tools and vendor integrations.
• Drive the growth of a reliability culture, promoting cross-functional collaboration towards improving system reliability, scalability, resilience, and security.
• Train and mentor other engineers.

Skills

Cloud platforms

Terraform

Crossplane

Go / Python / Ruby

Kubernetes

Grafana / New Relic / Datadog

Incident response

SRE best practices

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Terraform

Crossplane

Kubernetes

Grafana

New Relic

Datadog

Job description

PrizePicks is seeking a highly skilled Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join our team and ensure the reliability, scalability, and performance of our infrastructure as we scale. You will design, implement, and monitor production systems at scale, lead incident response, and mentor other engineers.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years in reliability-focused roles, deep experience with cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP), Kubernetes, Terraform/Crossplane, and observability tools like Grafana, New