Senior SRE: Airflow & Platform Reliability Engineer

Selby Jennings; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Job summary

Selby Jennings is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to scale and support critical workflow orchestration and automation platforms across the organization. The role sits in Platform Engineering, delivering highly available and resilient infrastructure for business-critical workloads.

You will blend hands-on operational support with long-term engineering improvements, collaborating with engineering, data, infrastructure, and security teams to automate processes and modernize the

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience required.
• 5+ years in Site Reliability, Platform Engineering or DevOps roles.
• Strong Airflow production experience and distributed deployments (Celery/Kubernetes).
• Experience with Automic/UC4 and enterprise job scheduling is a plus.
• Proficiency with Linux; Windows is a plus; AWS cloud experience.

Responsibilities

• Own operational support for workflow orchestration platforms and scheduling.
• Lead incident escalation, troubleshoot production issues, and perform RCAs.
• Improve reliability standards, monitoring strategies, and runbooks.
• Automate tasks and build tooling to reduce manual effort.
• Design observability with metrics, dashboards, alerts, and logs.
• Support platform lifecycle, upgrades, patching, and security remediation.
• Contribute to modernization: cloud, containers, migrations, CI/CD pipelines.
• Develop IaC using Terraform, Helm, Ansible; participate in architecture discussions.

Skills

SRE

DevOps

Platform Engineering

Automation

Cloud

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent experience

Tools

Airflow

Celery

Kubernetes

Terraform

Helm

Ansible

AWS

Python

Job description

Selby Jennings is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to scale and support critical workflow orchestration and automation platforms across the organization. The role sits in Platform Engineering, delivering highly available and resilient infrastructure for business-critical workloads.

You will blend hands-on operational support with long-term engineering improvements, collaborating with engineering, data, infrastructure, and security teams to automate processes and modernize the