Senior SRE — Remote, Observability & Scalability

Orkes; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 125,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Flexible PTO

Personal development support

Job summary

Orkes is hiring a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to own the reliability of production systems across cloud environments. You will define SLIs/SLOs, lead incident response, and improve observability and automation, partnering with engineering to scale distributed systems.

The role emphasizes strong troubleshooting, cross-functional collaboration, and capacity planning in a remote-friendly, fast-growing company. Start ASAP with international scope.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, Platform Engineering, or related infrastructure roles.
• Strong experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and containerized environments.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems and microservices architecture.
• Experience with observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, ELK, or OpenTelemetry.
• Proficiency with infrastructure automation and scripting (Terraform, Python, Bash, etc.).
• Experience managing CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
• Strong troubleshooting and incident management skills.
• Ability to work cross-functional and communicate effectively during high-pressure situations.

Responsibilities

• Own reliability, availability, and performance of production systems running in cloud environments.
• Define and monitor SLIs/SLOs and manage error budgets across the platform.
• Lead incident response efforts including detection, triage, mitigation, and postmortems.
• Improve observability through logging, monitoring, alerting, and dashboards.
• Automate operational workflows and reduce manual toil wherever possible.
• Partner with engineering teams to improve system resiliency and scalability.
• Assist with capacity planning, infrastructure optimization, and performance tuning.
• Build internal tooling, runbooks, and operational best practices.
• Support Kubernetes-based infrastructure and distributed systems at scale.
• Act as an escalation point for complex production and platform issues.

Skills

5+ years of experience in SRE/DevOps

Cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure)

Distributed systems

CI/CD pipelines

Troubleshooting

Incident management

Cross-functional collaboration

High-pressure communication

Tools

Kubernetes

Prometheus

Grafana

Datadog

ELK

OpenTelemetry

Terraform

Python

Bash

Job description

Orkes is hiring a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to own the reliability of production systems across cloud environments. You will define SLIs/SLOs, lead incident response, and improve observability and automation, partnering with engineering to scale distributed systems.

The role emphasizes strong troubleshooting, cross-functional collaboration, and capacity planning in a remote-friendly, fast-growing company. Start ASAP with international scope.