Senior Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering

Ladders; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 233,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Collaborative culture

Impact the platform's future direction

Engagement with diverse engineering

Engagement with diverse engineering

Job summary

Ladders is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering to join a leader in the Consumer Technology space. This role will help shape the reliability, scalability, and operational maturity of a cloud-based engineering platform used by teams across the organization. Location: Remote - US based candidates only, no visa sponsorship available.

Compensation: $180,200 – $233,200 annually. You will design and improve resilient, observable systems, partner with engineering teams to

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in infrastructure and systems.
• Extensive fluency in AWS and Linux.
• Experience with large-scale distributed systems and web technologies (DNS, TLS, HTTP/S, TCP/IP).
• Strong problem decomposition and tradeoff analysis.
• Excellent cross-functional collaboration and communication.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain software and systems that improve service availability and scalability.
• Set architectural direction for infrastructure and platform services.
• Implement tools and processes for deployment and infrastructure management.
• Troubleshoot and debug critical systems throughout the SDLC.
• Contribute to the evolution of engineering capabilities as a platform organization.
• Conduct capacity planning and demand forecasting to anticipate performance bottlenecks.
• Participate in rotating on-call duties.

Skills

AWS

Linux

Distributed systems

DNS

TLS

HTTP/S

TCP/IP

Code debugging

Cross-functional communication

Job description

For our client, we are seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering to join the team of a leader in the Consumer Technology space.

This role will help shape the reliability, scalability, and operational maturity of a cloud-based engineering platform that supports teams across the organization. You will design and improve systems that keep production services resilient, observable, and performant in a fast-paced consumer technology environment. The position also partners closely with engineering teams to strengthen deployment practices, troubleshoot complex issues, and anticipate capacity needs before they affect users.

Location: Remote - US based candidates only, no visa sponsorship available

Compensation: $180,200 – $233,200 annually

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain software and systems that improve service availability and scalability.
• Set architectural direction for infrastructure and platform services.
• Implement tools and processes for deployment and infrastructure management.
• Troubleshoot and debug critical systems throughout the software development lifecycle (SDLC).
• Contribute to the evolution of engineering capabilities as a platform organization.
• Conduct capacity planning and demand forecasting to anticipate performance bottlenecks.
• Participate in rotating on-call duties.

Qualifications

• Extensive fluency in AWS and Linux.
• Proficient in reading, writing, and debugging production code.
• Expertise in large-scale distributed systems and web technologies, including DNS, TLS, HTTP/S, and TCP/IP.
• Strong problem decomposition skills with an understanding of tradeoffs.
• 5 years of experience in managing infrastructure and systems.
• Knowledge of operating and observing microservices in a cloud environment.
• Effective communication skills for cross-functional collaboration.

Benefits

• Collaborative cross-functional culture.
• Opportunity to impact the engineering platform's future direction.
• Engagement with diverse engineering teams across the organization.

Our client is an equal opportunity employer. We encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every qualification—your background could be exactly what this team needs.