Senior Site Reliability Engineer: Scale, Automate, Observe

TalentDome Staffing; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

TalentDome Staffing is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to enhance the reliability, scalability, and performance of production systems. You will apply SRE principles to reduce toil, implement self-healing infrastructure, and drive capacity planning in high-scale environments.

Ideal candidates have 6+ years in SRE/DevOps with strong Python/Go coding, extensive AWS, and hands-on experience with Kubernetes.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of hands-on SRE/DevOps or backend engineering with production reliability ownership.
• Strong software engineering in Python or Go.
• Deep knowledge of AWS core services (EC2, Lambda, RDS, VPC, IAM, S3) and cost/performance optimization.
• Linux systems mastery including performance tuning, kernel/network troubleshooting, and security hardening.
• Kubernetes/EKS production experience at scale.
• Experience defining and operationalizing SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets.
• Understanding of distributed systems, fault tolerance, and failover strategies.
• Experience building full-stack observability pipelines and leading incident responses.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets across services.
• Build automation to reduce toil and enable self-service for engineers.
• Design and maintain IaC on AWS using Terraform/CloudFormation or Pulumi.
• Architect observability with Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Splunk, and OpenTelemetry.
• Act as incident commander during outages and lead blameless postmortems.
• Forecast capacity, run load/chaos tests, and tune systems to prevent bottlenecks.
• Partner with teams to deploy safe pipelines (canary, blue/green, feature flags) using ArgoCD/Jenkins/GitLab CI.
• Embed security into pipelines, manage access, network segmentation, and vulnerability management.
• Lead on-call rotations and runbooks; mentor engineers on reliability best practices.
• Influence architecture decisions and champion SRE culture across the org.

Skills

Python

Go

Linux

CI/CD

Observability

Tools

AWS

Terraform/CloudFormation

Pulumi

Prometheus

Grafana

Datadog

Splunk

OpenTelemetry

Kubernetes

EKS

ArgoCD

Jenkins

GitLab CI

Job description

TalentDome Staffing is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to enhance the reliability, scalability, and performance of production systems. You will apply SRE principles to reduce toil, implement self-healing infrastructure, and drive capacity planning in high-scale environments.

Ideal candidates have 6+ years in SRE/DevOps with strong Python/Go coding, extensive AWS, and hands-on experience with Kubernetes.