Senior SRE: Cloud Platform, Automation & Reliability

Avenue Code; California; On-site; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Avenue Code is seeking an experienced SRE to partner with product teams, design, build, and operate our cloud platform to drive reliability, performance, and security for our engineering organization.

You will own on-call rotations, define SLOs, and optimize costs using Terraform, AWS, Kubernetes, and CI/CD, while mentoring development teams and improving incident response capabilities.

Qualifications

• Have 5+ years of experience running production critical systems.
• Deep proficiency with the AWS Cloud and Cloud-Native best practices.
• Experience with Kubernetes (EKS, GKE) and Container Orchestration at scale.
• Skilled in Terraform to declaratively provision and maintain infrastructure services.
• Working knowledge of managing and debugging databases like Redis and Postgres.

Responsibilities

• Automate provisioning and deployments with Terraform and CI/CD pipelines.
• Define SLIs/SLOs, manage error budgets, and build dashboards & alerts to proactively measure and improve system health.
• Enforce least-privilege IAM policies, automate vulnerability scans, and maintain audit logging for compliance.
• Instrument services with metrics, logs, and distributed tracing to enable rapid troubleshooting, aid teams in alerting, custom metrics, and dashboarding.
• Own on-call rotations, lead real-time incident response, conduct post-mortems, and drive continuous improvements.
• Implement tagging strategies, right-size resources, and leverage data to control cloud spend at scale.
• Author runbooks, standards, and best-practice guides—and coach dev teams on DevOps, reliability, and security patterns.

Skills

SRE Experience

AWS Cloud

Kubernetes (EKS)

Terraform

Redis / PostgreSQL

Networking & VPC

CI/CD pipelines

English proficiency

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

ArgoCD

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Terraform

Job description

Avenue Code is seeking an experienced SRE to partner with product teams, design, build, and operate our cloud platform to drive reliability, performance, and security for our engineering organization.

You will own on-call rotations, define SLOs, and optimize costs using Terraform, AWS, Kubernetes, and CI/CD, while mentoring development teams and improving incident response capabilities.