Senior SRE: Observability & Cloud Automation

Jobtailor; Arizona; On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor is seeking an experienced software reliability engineer to apply engineering, automation, and DevOps principles across services. You will define SLIs/SLOs, improve observability, and drive CI/CD and IaC practices while mentoring engineers and leading incident response.

Candidates should have 5–8 years in software/SRE roles and be eligible to work in the United States. The role emphasizes collaboration with software teams to ensure reliability, scalability, and operational readiness

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field or equivalent practical experience.
• Eligibility to work in the United States for any employer; no visa sponsorship.

Responsibilities

• Apply software engineering, automation, and DevOps principles to improve how services are built, tested, deployed, observed, operated, and recovered.
• Define, implement, or improve SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and other service-health measures.
• Improve observability through metrics, logging, tracing, monitoring, alerting, dashboards, and service-health instrumentation.
• Drive continuous improvement across CI/CD, observability, deployment practices, Infrastructure as Code, automation, testing, incident response, capacity management, resilience, and operational readiness.
• Identify recurring production issues and translate operational experience into improvements in code, architecture, automation, tooling, and engineering practices.
• Partner with Software Engineering teams to incorporate reliability, resiliency, scalability, performance, observability, recoverability, and operational readiness throughout the development lifecycle.
• Participate in or lead incident response, troubleshooting, service restoration, and blameless post-incident learning.
• Reduce operational toil through software, automation, reusable patterns, and improved engineering practices.
• Mentor engineers, share knowledge, and develop reusable solutions and practices.
• Own reliability outcomes across multiple services and guide less-experienced engineers.

Skills

Programming languages

Analytical thinking

Problem solving

Communication

Collaboration

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/engineering

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

OCI

Linux/Unix

Containers

Orchestration

Monitoring tools

Logging tools

Dashboards

Job description

Jobtailor is seeking an experienced software reliability engineer to apply engineering, automation, and DevOps principles across services. You will define SLIs/SLOs, improve observability, and drive CI/CD and IaC practices while mentoring engineers and leading incident response.

Candidates should have 5–8 years in software/SRE roles and be eligible to work in the United States. The role emphasizes collaboration with software teams to ensure reliability, scalability, and operational readiness