Site Reliability Engineer

NOBLESTARK; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Onsite/Remote friendly

Certification stipend

PTO & holidays

401k with match

Mental health support

Parental leave

Life and disability insurance

Volunteer time off

Job summary

NOBLESTARK is seeking a Senior SRE/Production Engineer to improve reliability and reduce toil across services. You will build automation that keeps systems healthy and observable, and lead incident response and postmortems.

Responsibilities include defining service level objectives, automating runbooks, optimizing infrastructure costs, and collaborating with teams on production readiness. Strong Linux, Kubernetes, and Go or Python skills are required.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in SRE or production engineering.
• Strong Linux systems and networking fundamentals.
• Kubernetes operations including autoscaling and upgrades.
• Observability with metrics logs and traces.
• Capacity planning and load testing with k6 or Locust.
• Incident management and blameless postmortems.
• Experience with chaos testing and fault injection.
• Programming in Go or Python.
• Runbooks and production readiness reviews.
• Disaster recovery plans and multi AZ failover.
• Familiarity with SLAs SLIs and SLOs.

Responsibilities

• Define and track service level objectives
• Automate runbooks and reduce mean time to recovery
• Lead incident response and root cause analysis
• Optimize infra costs without trading reliability
• Partner with teams on production readiness
• Improve on call health and alert quality

Skills

Linux systems

Kubernetes operations

Observability

Go or Python

Incident response

Chaos testing

Job description

About This Role

Increase reliability and reduce toil across services. Build automation that keeps systems healthy and observable.

Requirements

• 5+ years in SRE or production engineering
• Strong Linux systems and networking fundamentals
• Kubernetes operations including autoscaling and upgrades
• Observability with metrics logs and traces
• Capacity planning and load testing with k6 or Locust
• Incident management and blameless postmortems
• Experience with chaos testing and fault injection
• Programming in Go or Python
• Runbooks and production readiness reviews
• Disaster recovery plans and multi AZ failover
• Familiarity with SLAs SLIs and SLOs

Responsibilities

• Define and track service level objectives
• Automate runbooks and reduce mean time to recovery
• Lead incident response and root cause analysis
• Optimize infra costs without trading reliability
• Partner with teams on production readiness
• Improve on call health and alert quality

Benefits & Perks

• Salary plus equity and performance bonus
• Health coverage plus FSA and HSA options
• Onsite or remote friendly with commuting benefits
• Stipend for certifications and SRE conferences
• Generous PTO and holidays
• 401k with match
• Mental health support
• Parental leave
• Life and disability insurance
• Volunteer time off