Senior SRE – Hybrid, Automation & Reliability

Early Warning; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 124,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare coverage

401(k) match

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Early Warning is seeking a Staff Site Reliability Engineer to elevate the reliability, resilience, and scalability of production services. You will partner with Software Engineering to embed reliability into the lifecycle, drive instrumentation, and lead incident response across multiple services.

The role emphasizes data-driven decisions, cross-team collaboration, and continuous improvement of CI/CD, IaC, and deployment practices in a hybrid work environment.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in Software/SRE/DevOps or related field.

Responsibilities

• Improve reliability, observability, and operational health of production services.
• Define and measure SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, and service-health metrics.
• Lead incident response and blameless post-incident reviews.
• Enhance CI/CD, IaC, automation, and testing practices.
• Collaborate with software engineering teams to incorporate reliability into development lifecycle.

Skills

8+ years exp

Programming

Distributed systems

Observability

AWS

Linux/Unix

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Software Engineering

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Terraform

Job description

Early Warning is seeking a Staff Site Reliability Engineer to elevate the reliability, resilience, and scalability of production services. You will partner with Software Engineering to embed reliability into the lifecycle, drive instrumentation, and lead incident response across multiple services.

The role emphasizes data-driven decisions, cross-team collaboration, and continuous improvement of CI/CD, IaC, and deployment practices in a hybrid work environment.