Site Reliability Engineer

RingCentral, Inc; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 95,000 - 136,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401K match

Parental leave

Job summary

RingCentral in Colorado is seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join the Collaboration team. You will maintain uptime and improve availability across services, focusing on observability, monitoring, and incident response.

The ideal candidate has 6+ years as an SRE, strong Linux knowledge, cloud experience, and hands-on work with Kubernetes, Kafka, and databases. Collaboration across distributed teams and fluent English are essential.

Qualifications

• 6+ years as an SRE or similar role.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with development and operations teams to integrate monitoring solutions into the SDLC and operational processes.
• Define and drive efforts to improve monitoring, troubleshooting, and self-healing for services.
• Design redundancy, failover, and load-balancing strategies for reliability.
• Respond to on-call incidents and mitigate outages.

Skills

SRE experience

Linux

Observability

Team collaboration

English fluency

Education

B.S in Computer Engineering/CS or equivalent

Tools

Kubernetes

Kafka

SQL/NoSQL databases

Prometheus/Grafana

ELK stack

Job description

Say hello to opportunities.

If you're looking to be part of what's next in communication, you're in the right place.

At RingCentral, we believe the best customer experiences happen when humans and AI work together. Our agentic voice AI portfolio-AIR, AVA, and ACE-brings together automation, assistance, and insights across the entire conversation lifecycle. The result? More seamless, intelligent experiences for businesses everywhere.

With $2.5B+ in ARR and $250M invested in R&D annually, we're building the future of AI-powered business communications.

This is where you and your skills come in. We're currently looking for: An experienced Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join the RingCentral Collaboration team. As a SRE, you will be responsible for maintaining and improving uptime and availability across several of our services. You will play a crucial role in ensuring the reliability, performance, and availability of our services by identifying potential issues, and proactively resolving them. The ideal candidate should have a background in various service observability platforms as well as experience with containerization using Kubernetes, message queuing systems like Kafka, and SQL/NoSQL databases. Programming experience is desired for the role.

Job Duties:

• Collaborate with development and operations teams to integrate monitoring solutions into the software development lifecycle and operational processes.

• Define, propose, and drive efforts to continually improve monitoring, troubleshooting, and self-healing for our services.

• Design and implement redundancy, failover mechanisms, and load-balancing strategies to ensure system reliability.

• Conduct risk assessments and identify potential points of failure in the infrastructure and propose solutions to fix it.

• Respond to (on-call) and take actions to mitigate incidents and outages.

• Be on top of capacity requirements in a growing environment.

• Actively work with various teams' codebases to extend observability and improve uptime.

• Represent the team in global incidents resolution, and participate in on-call rotation

To succeed in this role you must have experience in:

• Proven experience as an SRE or similar role of 6+ years.

• Problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.

• Linux in-depth knowledge.

• Knowledge of one of the programming languages (see Preferable technology stack).

• Experience with cloud platforms.

• Knowledge of one or more of the configuration management tools.

• Ability to work in a diverse multicultural environment, communicating with globally distributed teams.

• Team player with self-start ability and strong drive to dig deeply and solve problems.

• Fluent in spoken and written English.

Preferable Technology Stack:

• OS: Linux (CentOS/RedHat/Oracle/Amazon Linux)

• Programming languages: Python, JavaScript, Java

• Scripting languages: Bash, Go

• Cloud: AWS, Azure, GCP

• Containerization: Kubernetes

• Distributed Log: Kafka, ELK stack

• Monitoring: Zabbix, Prometheus, Alertmanager, Grafana

• DBs: VictoriaMetrics, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL

• IaaC: Ansible, Terraform

• GitOps: ArgoCD

• CI: Gitlab CI, Jenkins

• VCS: GitLab

• HA: Nginx Proxy

Desired Qualifications:

• B.S in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent experience with 4+ years of related experience

• Proven experience with influencing the software engineering of cloud/SaaS services

• Familiarity with AI, LLM, and various related technologies

• Deep understanding of the DevOps Lifecycle and application of it within organizations

• Deep understanding of SRE principle & fundamentals

What we offer:

• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, disability, life insurance

• Health Savings Account (HSA), Flexible Spending Account (FSAs) and Commuter benefits

• 401K match and ESPP

• Paid time off and paid sick leave

• Paid parental and pregnancy leave and new parent gift boxes

• Family-forming benefits (IVF, Preservation, Adoption etc.)

• Emergency backup care (Child/Adult/Pets)

• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with counseling sessions available 24/7

• Free legal services that provide legal advice, document creation and estate planning

• Employee bonus referral program

• Student loan refinancing assistance

• Employee perks and discounts program

RingCentral's Engineering team

works on high-complexity projects that set the standard for performance and reliability at massive scale. What kind of scale? Millions of users today and hundreds of millions tomorrow. This is your chance to help imagine, develop and deliver products that raise the technological bar, and power human connections. If you're a talented, ambitious, creative thinker, RingCentral is the perfect environment to join a world class team and bring your ideas to life.

RingCentral's work culture is the backbone of our success. And don't just take our word for it: we are recognized as a Best Place to Work by Glassdoor, the Top Work Culture by Comparably and hold local BPTW awards in every major location. Bottom line: We are committed to hiring and retaining great people because we know you power our success.

About RingCentral

RingCentral is a global leader in agentic voice AI-powered business communications, delivering an integrated platform for business phone, SMS, contact center, workforce engagement management, video collaboration, and messaging. As the communications layer connecting businesses and customers, RingCentral is the front door of business communication and is in the advantageous position to apply AI at every phase of the conversation journey - before, during, and after each interaction. Our agentic AI portfolio includes autonomous voice-first AI agents that automate calls, assist in the moment, and analyze every interaction - enabling businesses to work smarter, respond faster, and connect more meaningfully with their customers. Visit ringcentral.com to learn more. RingCentral is an equal opportunity employer that truly values diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities during our application and interview process. If you require such accommodations, please click on the following link to learn more about how we can assist you.

If you are hired in Colorado,the compensation range for this position is between $94,850 and $135,500 for full-time employees, in addition to eligibility for variable pay, equity, and benefits. Benefits may include, but are not limited to, health and wellness, 401k, ESPP, vacation, parental leave, and more!