Senior Site Reliability Engineer – Secret Clearance Required

Jobtailor; Arlington (VA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor in Arlington, VA is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer focused on reliability, incident response, and automation. You will work directly in code (TypeScript) to improve performance and reliability across the stack.

Responsibilities include building observability with Prometheus, Loki, Alloy, and Grafana, defining SLIs/SLOs, and leading blameless post-mortems. Collaboration across product, platform, and DevOps teams is essential.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience with TypeScript and real-time shipping of application code.
• 5+ years in software engineering, SRE, or related role.
• Strong SDLC understanding across design, code review, testing, and release.
• Experience with incident response, root cause analysis, and lasting fixes.
• Collaborator who works well across product, platform, and DevOps teams.

Responsibilities

• Improve the application by fixing reliability and performance at the source.
• Build observability with monitoring, logging, and alerting (Prometheus, Loki, Alloy, Grafana).
• Define and measure SLIs and SLOs and set reliable targets.
• Lead incident response and blameless post-mortems.
• Automate repetitive operational work to reduce toil.

Skills

TypeScript Programming

Incident Response

Reliability Engineering

Monitoring & Logging

SDLC Expertise

Education

Active Secret Clearance

Tools

Prometheus

Loki

Alloy

Grafana

Job description

• Improving the application: Work directly in the codebase (primarily TypeScript) to fix reliability and performance problems at the source.
• Building observability that developers actually use: Design and run our monitoring, logging, and alerting (Prometheus, Loki, Alloy, Grafana).
• Owning reliability targets: Define and measure SLIs and SLOs, wire up alerting that feeds them, and be the person who can say what 'reliable' means for our systems.
• Leading incident response: Act as incident responder, and incident commander when needed. Run blameless post-mortems (AARs).
• Automating away toil: Spot the repetitive operational work and write software to kill it.

Requirements

• An active Secret clearance
• 5+ years in software engineering, SRE, or a related role, with real time spent writing and shipping application code
• Strong TypeScript (or comparable modern language experience with willingness to work primarily in TypeScript)
• Solid grasp of the full SDLC: design, code review, testing, release, and how reliability fits into each stage
• Experience with incident response, root cause analysis, and turning findings into lasting fixes
• A collaborator who works well across product, platform, and DevOps teams and shares context openly

Demonstrates expertise in TypeScript and the full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), with a strong focus on reliability, incident response, and automation. Proven ability to collaborate effectively across teams while owning reliability targets and improving application performance.

Highest-signal resume keywords

• TypeScript Programming
• Incident Response
• Reliability Engineering
• Monitoring and Logging
• Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

ATS Optimization Keywords

Hard Skills

• TypeScript
• Software Engineering
• Incident Response
• Root Cause Analysis
• Performance Optimization
• Application Reliability
• Automation
• Code Review
• Testing
• Release Management

Soft Skills

• Collaboration
• Communication
• Context Sharing

Certifications & Qualifications

• Active Secret Clearance

Industry Keywords

• Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
• Service Level Indicators (SLIs)
• Service Level Objectives (SLOs)
• Blameless Post-Mortems
• Application Monitoring

Tools & Technologies

• Prometheus
• Loki
• Alloy
• Grafana