Senior Site Reliability Engineer: Scalable Infra & Observability

Early Warning; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 106,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare Coverage

401(k) Matching

Paid Time Off

Parental Leave (12 weeks)

Job summary

Early Warning is seeking an experienced engineer to help build and maintain scalable application infrastructure with a focus on reliability and automation. You will implement tooling around deployments, disaster recovery, and observability while ensuring security and high performance.

You will work with development teams to apply modern microservice design patterns and contribute to on-call rotation, incident management, and cross-team collaboration in a hybrid work environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field.
• 3+ years managing large complex projects in a technical environment.
• Experience in Incident and Problem Management.
• Proven work experience in medium to large-scale enterprise.
• Strong scripting language skills.
• Hands-on with observability solutions.
• Linux systems administration.
• Knowledge of Git and security/encryption protocols.
• Strong communication and collaboration across teams.

Responsibilities

• Implement software and tools to improve performance, availability, scalability, and latency while meeting security standards.
• Build automation and tooling for deployments, configuration changes and disaster recovery.
• Implement and evangelize Observability and monitoring systems to detect problems.
• Evaluate application capacity and provide stats to product/business teams; plan scalable paths.
• Identify performance bottlenecks and troubleshoot with cross-functional teams.
• Standardize practices across disciplines to improve delivery.
• Collaborate with development teams on lifecycle feedback and microservice design patterns.
• Serve as a technical liaison and provide runbooks to Level 1/2 teams.
• Participate in 24x7 on-call rotation.
• Develop repeatable patterns and reusable work across teams.
• Support data/system confidentiality and integrity.

Skills

Incident Management

Problem Management

Linux

Git

Scripting

Observability

Security protocols

CI/CD

Collaboration

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

Swarm

Job description

Early Warning is seeking an experienced engineer to help build and maintain scalable application infrastructure with a focus on reliability and automation. You will implement tooling around deployments, disaster recovery, and observability while ensuring security and high performance.

You will work with development teams to apply modern microservice design patterns and contribute to on-call rotation, incident management, and cross-team collaboration in a hybrid work environment.