Senior SRE: Scale, Reliability & Edge Infra Leader

Sanity; New York (NY); Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Comprehensive health plans

Flexible work environment

Global team

Job summary

Sanity.io seeks a seasoned Site Reliability Engineer to design, build and operate scalable infrastructure that underpins our real-time content platform. You will work closely with development teams to ensure security, stability and performance across global deployments and edge strategies.

You will contribute to modernizing our edge, caching and gateway layers, while maintaining high uptime and robust monitoring. A strong on-call culture and hands-on optimization are core to the role.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience as part of an SRE on-call rotation.
• Experience with Kubernetes for orchestrating, scaling, and managing containerized applications in cloud-based environments.
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with an observability stack (Prometheus, et al.).
• Experience with managing scalable, highly available, cloud-based applications and high uptime expectations.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate the shared platform foundations engineers ship on every day: GCP infrastructure, Kubernetes, networking, routing, CI/CD, and observability.
• Diagnose and troubleshoot complex distributed systems running at high request volume.
• Ensure observability and analyze the behavior of our stack.
• Contribute to modernizing edge, caching, and gateway layers onto Fastly and tightening observability across the platform.
• Raise the reliability bar through dashboards, alerting, paging standards, on-call readiness, and incident response.
• Make deployment boring by building golden paths, production readiness checks, safe rollouts, and useful automation.
• Mentor engineers and raise the technical bar through code/design reviews and pairing.
• Participate in on-call rotation and ensure smooth rollout for developers.

Skills

Kubernetes

Prometheus

CI/CD pipelines

Observability

On-call rotation

Distributed systems

Incident response

Security practices

Cloud infrastructure

Troubleshooting

Tools

ElasticSearch

PostgreSQL

NATS

Kong

Fastly

Google Cloud Platform

Job description

Sanity.io seeks a seasoned Site Reliability Engineer to design, build and operate scalable infrastructure that underpins our real-time content platform. You will work closely with development teams to ensure security, stability and performance across global deployments and edge strategies.

You will contribute to modernizing our edge, caching and gateway layers, while maintaining high uptime and robust monitoring. A strong on-call culture and hands-on optimization are core to the role.