Senior SRE & Backend Engineer - Reliability at Scale(Remote)

Nabla; Buffalo (NY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Stock options

Medical coverage

Unlimited PTO

Sick leave

Parental leave

Home office grant

Flexible schedule

Job summary

Nabla is seeking a Senior SRE/Platform Engineer to own production reliability and scale our on-call culture across a fast-paced, production-critical platform.

You will instrument every layer with monitoring and observability, drive the SRE roadmap from SLIs to chaos engineering, and collaborate with backend, ML, and frontend squads to embed reliability into deployments. This role emphasizes autonomy, strong coding fundamentals, and effective communication during incidents.

Qualifications

• Senior-level SRE or infrastructure experience in production-critical environments.
• Hands-on with cloud infrastructure (GCP preferred; AWS/Azure acceptable).
• Structured on-call with alerting, runbooks, post-mortems.
• Software engineering fundamentals: IaC, Terraform PRs, debugging incidents.
• Autonomy and ability to drive priorities.
• Clear communication with engineers and leadership, even during incidents.
• Bonus: Kubernetes, GCP tooling, PostgreSQL at scale, or healthcare security/compliance.

Responsibilities

• Own production reliability across the full stack.
• Own and scale the on-call culture with runbooks and escalation.
• Instrument monitoring, alerting, and observability to surface issues.
• Drive the SRE roadmap with leadership on reliability investments.
• Make engineers faster via tooling and reduced toil.
• Collaborate across squads with back-end, ML, and front-end engineers.

Skills

SRE experience

Infrastructure

Backend engineering

On-call experience

Cloud familiarity

Terraform PRs

Communication

Tools

Kubernetes

Job description

Nabla is seeking a Senior SRE/Platform Engineer to own production reliability and scale our on-call culture across a fast-paced, production-critical platform.

You will instrument every layer with monitoring and observability, drive the SRE roadmap from SLIs to chaos engineering, and collaborate with backend, ML, and frontend squads to embed reliability into deployments. This role emphasizes autonomy, strong coding fundamentals, and effective communication during incidents.