Senior SRE: GCP, Kubernetes, Terraform

Stord-Warehous; Atlanta (GA); Remote; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Stord is seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to strengthen our infrastructure across GKE, Cloud Run, and AlloyDB. You’ll own Terraform modules, optimize containerized workloads, and lead incident response in a fast-growing environment.

You’ll collaborate with product and engineering teams to improve deployment practices, reduce toil, and raise reliability. A production mindset, strong communication, and adaptability to AI-assisted tooling are essential.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in SRE, platform, or infrastructure engineering with ownership of complex systems
• Strong hands-on experience with GCP core services (GKE, Cloud Run, AlloyDB, networking, IAM)
• Fluent in Docker and Kubernetes with real workloads
• Deep Terraform experience; reusable modules and state-aware work
• Proficient in TypeScript, Python, or Go for tooling and automation
• Proficient in building actionable monitoring and alerting (Datadog, Prometheus/Grafana)
• Knowledge of distributed systems, failure modes, and scale
• Experience with Git-based collaboration and incident management
• Strong communication and collaboration, with a production-focused mindset
• Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools is a plus

Responsibilities

• Define and implement scalable, reliable infrastructure on GCP (GKE, Cloud Run, AlloyDB, networking)
• Own IaC with Terraform: modules, policies, patterns
• Manage container workloads on Kubernetes, sizing, performance
• Reduce toil via automation and better defaults
• Build and manage observability with Datadog (APM, logs, RUM)
• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions
• Develop disaster recovery and business-continuity plans
• Lead incident response and post-incident reviews
• Collaborate across teams to improve deployment practices and reliability
• Contribute to SRE and infra best practices and on-call rotations

Skills

GCP fundamentals

Kubernetes

Terraform

Docker

Programming: TS/Python/Go

Observability: Datadog

Distributed systems

Git workflows

Incident management

Communication

Ownership

AI tooling for coding

Cost engineering

Tools

Terraform

GKE

Job description

Stord is seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to strengthen our infrastructure across GKE, Cloud Run, and AlloyDB. You’ll own Terraform modules, optimize containerized workloads, and lead incident response in a fast-growing environment.

You’ll collaborate with product and engineering teams to improve deployment practices, reduce toil, and raise reliability. A production mindset, strong communication, and adaptability to AI-assisted tooling are essential.