Senior SRE: Scale Reliability, Observability & CI/CD

Breakout Tools; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

A tech startup in San Francisco is looking for Site Reliability Engineers to enhance system reliability and performance. Ideal candidates have over 5 years of relevant experience and strong expertise in cloud infrastructure, including AWS and Kubernetes. The role involves defining SLIs/SLOs, optimizing monitoring, and collaborating closely with engineering teams. Candidates should be comfortable writing production-grade code in Go, Python, or Node.js and thrive in fast-paced environments.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in SRE, DevOps, or Platform Engineering roles.
• Strong experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred).
• Deep knowledge of observability tools.
• Strong debugging skills across services and networking.
• Hands-on experience designing and monitoring SLIs/SLOs.

Responsibilities

• Work as a hands-on engineer focused on system reliability.
• Define and track SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets.
• Optimize monitoring cost and signal quality.
• Improve deployment safety and UAT pipelines.
• Lead resilience work like failover drills and chaos tests.

Skills

Site Reliability Engineering

DevOps

Platform Engineering

Cloud Infrastructure

Observability Tools

Production-grade code in Go, Python, or Node.js

Tools

AWS

Terraform

Kubernetes

DataDog

Prometheus

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

ArgoCD

Job description

A tech startup in San Francisco is looking for Site Reliability Engineers to enhance system reliability and performance. Ideal candidates have over 5 years of relevant experience and strong expertise in cloud infrastructure, including AWS and Kubernetes. The role involves defining SLIs/SLOs, optimizing monitoring, and collaborating closely with engineering teams. Candidates should be comfortable writing production-grade code in Go, Python, or Node.js and thrive in fast-paced environments.