Senior SRE: Lead Reliability for Large-Scale Systems | Flexible Hours

Appit LLC; Seattle (WA); On-site; Full time

Job description

APPIT Software Solutions is hiring a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) in Seattle, USA. Lead site reliability engineering efforts for large-scale distributed systems, driving 99.99% availability targets through advanced observability, automation, and resilience engineering.

Responsibilities

• Lead SRE strategy and practices across multiple product teams ensuring consistent reliability standards
• Architect and maintain enterprise-grade observability platforms using OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, and Grafana
• Drive chaos engineering programs to proactively identify failure modes and improve system resilience
• Mentor SRE team members and embed reliability practices into the software development lifecycle
• Lead high-severity incident response and establish processes for continuous improvement from postmortems
• Design capacity planning models and automated scaling strategies for cost-efficient high availability

Requirements

• 6-9 years of SRE or production engineering experience with large-scale distributed systems
• Deep expertise in observability including metrics, logs, traces, and profiling at scale
• Advanced Kubernetes operations experience including multi-cluster management and custom controllers
• Strong software engineering skills in Go, Python, or Rust for building production-grade SRE tooling
• Proven experience managing SLO frameworks and driving reliability improvements across organizations
• Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS or GCP) at scale with multi-region deployments

Nice to Have

• Experience leading SRE teams or guilds in a large engineering organization
• Background in performance engineering and profiling distributed systems

Benefits

Competitive salaries, flexible work arrangements, and opportunities for career growth across our global offices.