Senior SRE (Remote) — Observability & Reliability

Modus Create; United States; Remote; USD 165,000 - 248,000; Part time

Job summary

Modus Create, a fully remote digital consulting partner, seeks an experienced Senior Site Reliability Engineer to own reliability across a modern backend stack on AWS. You design observability, SLAs, incident response, and lead postmortems while mentoring 4–12 engineers as the team scales.

The role emphasizes proactive reliability, on-call duties, and collaboration across product and platform teams. You will work with Python services, containers, and AI workloads, implementing IaC and CI/CD

Qualifications

• 6+ years in SRE/DevOps/Platform Engineering at scale.
• Strong AWS expertise (ALB, ECS/Fargate, RDS Aurora, Lambda, IAM).
• Production Python backend experience in containers and Lambdas.
• On-call rotation participation.
• Experience bootstrapping SRE programs from scratch.
• Incident response, on-call rotations, postmortems, and SLOs.
• Observability (metrics, logging, tracing, alerting).
• Containerization (Kubernetes, Docker).
• Infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi).
• CI/CD pipelines and deployment strategies.
• Troubleshoot distributed systems.
• Clear communication skills.
• Scripting (Python, Bash, Go).
• Git and collaboration workflows.

Responsibilities

• Design observability systems (metrics, logging, tracing) and define SLOs and error budgets.
• Own 24/7 on-call rotation with 10-minute acknowledgment SLA; support incident reports to platform teams.
• Establish reliability standards and SLA targets for backend services.
• Mentor and onboard SRE engineers as team scales to 8-12.
• Participate in incident response, troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, and postmortems.
• Implement reliability improvements, capacity planning, and performance optimization.
• Build self-healing automation and toil-reduction initiatives.
• Collaborate with teams to integrate reliability and observability into delivery.
• Support AI workloads and understand their operational requirements.
• Create runbooks, architecture docs, and troubleshooting guides.
• Review infrastructure changes and contribute to reliability standards.
• Tune systems for latency, throughput, and resource efficiency.

Skills

SRE experience

AWS expertise

Python backend

On-call duties

SRE program setup

Incident response

Observability

Kubernetes/Docker

IaC (Terraform/CF/Pulumi)

CI/CD

Troubleshooting

Communication

Scripting (Python/Bash/Go)

Git workflows

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

CloudFormation

Pulumi

Git

Job description

Modus Create, a fully remote digital consulting partner, seeks an experienced Senior Site Reliability Engineer to own reliability across a modern backend stack on AWS. You design observability, SLAs, incident response, and lead postmortems while mentoring 4–12 engineers as the team scales.

The role emphasizes proactive reliability, on-call duties, and collaboration across product and platform teams. You will work with Python services, containers, and AI workloads, implementing IaC and CI/CD