Senior SRE: Deployment Safety & Reliability Leader

Root

West Hollywood (CA)

Hybrid

USD 180,000 - 240,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Root is shaping the next generation of online communities with a distributed infrastructure powering real-time experiences worldwide.

The Senior Site Reliability Engineer will own end-to-end deployment safety and release reliability, defining standards, and incident practices so engineers can ship frequently and safely. You will lead blameless post-incident reviews and push for scalable, automated reliability patterns.

Qualifications

5+ years owning production reliability and deployment systems for customer-facing software.
Direct accountability for production deploys and incident response.
Experience designing and operating CI/CD systems where failures had real user impact.
Strong understanding of distributed systems and common backend failure modes.
Ability to diagnose issues across application and infrastructure boundaries.
Experience defining and enforcing SLOs, error budgets, and release policies.
Comfort acting as the final gate for production changes when necessary.
Sound judgment balancing speed, risk, and reliability.

Responsibilities

Own deployment safety for backend services and core platform infrastructure.
Design and operate CI/CD systems that make production changes safe, observable, and reversible.
Eliminate manual, high-risk deployment paths through automation and clear standards.
Lead high-severity production incidents and drive durable systemic fixes.
Embed reliability into development workflows and provide tooling.