Senior SRE: Scale, Observability & Resilience

inspirebrands; Georgia; On-site; USD 130,000 - 185,000; Full time

Job summary

Inspire Brands in Atlanta seeks a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to help build and scale reliable, observable systems for high-traffic digital platforms. The role blends software engineering, systems thinking, and operational excellence to reduce toil and prevent incidents.

The ideal candidate applies SRE principles, defines SLIs/SLOs, and drives automation and incident response. This position is based in our Atlanta Support Center with 80% on-site presence.

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Software Engineering, or Platform Engineering
• 2+ years experience with Kubernetes and containerized workloads
• 4-year degree in Computer Science or related field

Responsibilities

• Define and manage SLIs, SLOs, and Error Budgets for critical services
• Drive production readiness reviews and reliability requirements into architecture and design
• Perform capacity planning, failure mode analysis, and dependency risk assessments
• Identify systemic reliability risks and drive remediation before they impact customers
• Design monitoring, alerting, logging, and tracing solutions
• Improve signal-to-noise ratio and reduce alert fatigue
• Lead technical response for high-severity incidents
• Drive blameless postmortems and root cause analysis
• Continuously improve detection, response, and recovery processes
• Participate in an on-call rotation
• Identify and eliminate manual, repetitive operational work through automation
• Build self-healing systems, tooling, and scripts to reduce human intervention
• Improve CI/CD pipelines and deployment safety
• Support Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Bicep, or similar)
• Conduct load testing, performance benchmarking, and bottleneck analysis
• Partner with engineering to design systems for horizontal scalability and fault tolerance
• Mentor engineers on SRE best practices
• Promote a culture of engineering-driven reliability over reactive operations

Skills

Python

Go

Java

Node.js

SRE principles

Incident response

Distributed systems

Cloud platforms

Education

4-year degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

Bicep

Job description

Inspire Brands in Atlanta seeks a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to help build and scale reliable, observable systems for high-traffic digital platforms. The role blends software engineering, systems thinking, and operational excellence to reduce toil and prevent incidents.

The ideal candidate applies SRE principles, defines SLIs/SLOs, and drives automation and incident response. This position is based in our Atlanta Support Center with 80% on-site presence.