Senior SRE: Own Production Reliability on AWS/EKS (Remote)

Salve.Lab; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Salve.Lab is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to own production reliability on AWS and Amazon EKS. This is a hands-on role focused on operating highly available services, participating in on-call rotations, troubleshooting complex Kubernetes issues, and driving permanent improvements after incidents.

You will work with customers during escalations, define SLIs/SLOs, build runbooks, and implement IaC with Terraform/Terragrunt and GitOps tooling (Argo CD or FluxCD).

Qualifications

• Hands-on, production ownership of SRE/Production Engineering roles.
• Experience operating production environments on AWS with EKS.

Responsibilities

• Own the reliability, availability and operational health of production services on AWS and EKS.
• Lead or participate in on-call rotations and incidents with customers.
• Define, monitor and improve SLIs, SLOs and error budgets.
• Develop runbooks and automated remediation to reduce toil.
• Build and maintain infrastructure as code using Terraform/Terragrunt and GitOps tools.

Skills

AWS

Kubernetes

Incident management

Production systems

English communication

Tools

Terraform

Terragrunt

Argo CD

FluxCD

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Datadog

ELK

Kafka

MSK

Karpenter

KEDA

Job description

Salve.Lab is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to own production reliability on AWS and Amazon EKS. This is a hands-on role focused on operating highly available services, participating in on-call rotations, troubleshooting complex Kubernetes issues, and driving permanent improvements after incidents.

You will work with customers during escalations, define SLIs/SLOs, build runbooks, and implement IaC with Terraform/Terragrunt and GitOps tooling (Argo CD or FluxCD).