Senior SRE - Remote, Unlimited PTO, Reliable Platforms

Ad Tech Industry; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited PTO

Hobby & team building budget allowance

Employee Support Program

Loss of family member financial aid

Employee Resource Groups

Job summary

Semrush is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join the SRE Team, ensuring reliability of our scalable infrastructure and applications. You will identify potential failure points and implement solutions with cross-functional partners to boost uptime and performance.

The role involves building tooling in Go or Python, shaping SLOs, and mentoring engineers, with on-call rotations and collaboration across development teams to design resilient systems.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience as a Site Reliability Engineer.
• Experience with Kubernetes and Cloud providers.
• Experience with engineering in Python or Go.
• Strong understanding of what an application failure is and how to handle it.
• Ability to debug applications using metrics.
• Familiarity with traces, observability, and implementation quirks in code.
• Willingness to be on call and work flexible hours.
• Team player with good communication abilities.
• GCP knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Lead the changes in common engineering practices in the Company.
• Induce application failures and work to recover them from that state.
• Debug applications using metrics and add traces/metrics as needed.
• Establish and refine SLOs, cost dashboards, and security hardening initiatives in partnership with stakeholders to guarantee service reliability and performance.
• Collaborate with development teams to design and implement scalable, reliable, and efficient system architecture.
• Designs full-stack platform solutions from concept to production.
• Builds sophisticated tooling in Go/Python to automate operations.
• Mentors engineers, interviews candidates, leads critical incidents.
• On-call rotation: Typically one week every 2–3 weeks and may include overnight incidents.

Skills

Kubernetes

Cloud providers

Python

Go

Observability & tracing

On-call experience

Communication

GCP

Tools

Go

Python

Job description

Semrush is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join the SRE Team, ensuring reliability of our scalable infrastructure and applications. You will identify potential failure points and implement solutions with cross-functional partners to boost uptime and performance.

The role involves building tooling in Go or Python, shaping SLOs, and mentoring engineers, with on-call rotations and collaboration across development teams to design resilient systems.