Senior SRE - Remote, Scale, Observability & Automation

Ladders; United States; Remote; USD 159,000 - 234,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

100% medical, dental, and vision

Flexible PTO policy

Annual home office stipend and WeWork

Mental and physical health wellness

Competitive compensation and careerAdv

Job summary

The Ladders is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to help scale and harden production systems across the platform. You will partner with engineering to improve resilience, automate recovery, and strengthen observability to ensure dependable service delivery.

This remote role requires US-based candidates; you will design reusable platform components and guide execution from design to rollout, mentoring engineers and driving high infrastructure quality.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, Cloud Engineering, or Software Development roles.
• Hands-on experience operating production environments in AWS.
• Proficiency in Go or Python for building automation and tooling.
• Strong experience with Terraform.
• Experience with container orchestration platforms like ECS or Kubernetes.
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions.
• Solid understanding of observability practices including system metrics and SLOs.
• Strong leadership and communication skills, both written and verbal.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and scale production environments using AWS and Terraform.
• Lead efforts to improve platform resilience through failure-based testing and automated recovery.
• Own the design and delivery of reusable platform components and self-service tools.
• Define and evolve observability standards across the platform.
• Own projects end to end from scoping to successful rollout.
• Mentor engineers and uphold high infrastructure quality.
• Engage in technical design discussions and adapt strategies based on team input.
• Participate in a low-volume on-call rotation.

Skills

SRE experience

Go or Python

CI/CD

Observability

Leadership & communication

On-call rotations

Tools

Terraform

AWS

Kubernetes

ECS

GitHub Actions

Job description

The Ladders is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to help scale and harden production systems across the platform. You will partner with engineering to improve resilience, automate recovery, and strengthen observability to ensure dependable service delivery.

This remote role requires US-based candidates; you will design reusable platform components and guide execution from design to rollout, mentoring engineers and driving high infrastructure quality.