Senior SRE - Remote, 99.9%+ Uptime & Reliability

Xident; Union (NJ); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first

Equity

Flexible hours

Job summary

Xident is seeking a Senior SRE to ensure our verification platform maintains high reliability and 99.99% uptime. You will own SLOs, incident response, and the observability stack for services processing millions of verifications.

This remote-first company values privacy, scalability, and blameless postmortems as we grow across 12 countries. You will design and enforce SLOs, lead incident response, and optimize PostgreSQL-based systems while advancing our monitoring and chaos engineering

Qualifications

• 7+ years of SRE, platform, or production engineering experience.
• Expert knowledge of Prometheus, Grafana, and alerting at scale.
• Deep experience with PostgreSQL operations — replication, backup, disaster recovery.
• Strong coding skills in Go or Python for tooling and automation.
• Experience running production systems at 99.9%+ availability.
• Proven incident response leadership and blameless postmortem culture.

Responsibilities

• Define and enforce SLOs/SLIs across APIs, workers, and databases.
• Own incident response — runbooks, postmortems, and reliability improvements.
• Design and maintain observability stack: Prometheus, Sentry, logging.
• Implement chaos engineering to identify failure modes.
• Optimize database performance — tuning and scaling.
• Build capacity planning models for scalable infrastructure.

Skills

SRE experience

Go

Python

Prometheus

Grafana

PostgreSQL

Incident response

Chaos engineering

Observability

Tools

Sentry

Neon PostgreSQL

Kubernetes

Logging tooling

Job description

We need a Senior SRE to ensure Xident's verification platform runs at 99.99% uptime. You'll own SLOs, incident response, and production reliability for a system where downtime means blocked users and lost revenue for the sites that integrate us.

Xident is building the future of digital identity verification. Our platform enables businesses to verify users' ages and identities in seconds, while respecting privacy through our unique "Verify Once, Access Everywhere" model.

Founded in 2025, Xident is a remote-first company.

Our mission is simple: To make identity verification seamless, private, and accessible for everyone. We believe privacy and convenience shouldn't be mutually exclusive, and we're proving it every day.

What You'll Do

• Define and enforce SLOs/SLIs across our Go API, Python OCR workers, and PostgreSQL infrastructure
• Own incident response — build runbooks, lead postmortems, and drive reliability improvements
• Design and maintain our observability stack: Prometheus metrics, Sentry error tracking, structured logging
• Implement chaos engineering practices to proactively identify failure modes
• Optimize database performance — query tuning, connection pooling, and Neon PostgreSQL scaling
• Build capacity planning models and ensure our infrastructure scales with customer growth

What We're Looking For

• 7+ years of SRE, platform, or production engineering experience
• Expert knowledge of Prometheus, Grafana, and alerting at scale
• Deep experience with PostgreSQL operations — replication, backup, disaster recovery
• Strong coding skills in Go or Python for building tooling and automation
• Experience running production systems at 99.9%+ availability
• Proven incident response leadership and blameless postmortem culture

Nice to Have

• Experience with Neon or other serverless PostgreSQL platforms
• Background in SOC 2 or GDPR compliance from an infrastructure perspective
• Familiarity with GPU infrastructure reliability for ML workloads

Our Hiring Process

We respect your time and aim to complete the entire process within 2-3 weeks. Here's what to expect:

1

Application Review

Application Review

3-5 days

Our team reviews your application within 5 business days. We look for relevant experience, passion for our mission, and alignment with our values.

2

Initial Call

Initial Call

30 minutes

A 30-minute video call with our recruiting team to learn about your background, discuss the role, and answer your questions about Xident.

3

Technical Assessment

Technical Assessment

1-2 hours

Role-specific evaluation—this might be a coding challenge, portfolio review, case study, or technical discussion depending on the position.

4

Team Interviews

Team Interviews

2-3 hours

Meet with 3-4 team members including your potential manager and cross-functional partners. We assess technical skills, collaboration, and culture fit.

5

Final Interview

Final Interview

45 minutes

A conversation with a company leader to discuss your career goals, our vision, and ensure mutual fit. This is also your chance to ask strategic questions.

6

Offer

Offer

24-48 hours

If it's a match, we move quickly. Expect a competitive offer within 48 hours of your final interview, with clear details on compensation and equity.

Our Values

Privacy by Design

We iterate quickly, gather feedback, and improve continuously.

Ownership Mentality

Everyone owns their domain end-to-end. No finger-pointing, just solutions.

Transparent by Default

We're happy to answer any questions before you apply. Reach out to our team anytime.