Site Reliability Engineer

Valiant Technologies LLC; Pittsburgh (Allegheny County); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Valiant Technologies LLC is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to apply software engineering to our large-scale cloud platforms. You will own incident response, troubleshoot outages, and drive post-incident reviews.

You will build automation to reduce toil, implement monitoring and observability using logs, metrics, and traces, and help define SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets. You will collaborate with developers and operations to keep systems fast and reliable.

Qualifications

• Experience with incident response and troubleshooting production systems.
• Ability to write automation scripts to reduce toil and manual operations.
• Strong monitoring and observability skills (metrics, logs, traces).
• Familiarity with SRE concepts: SLIs, SLOs, SLAs and error budgets.

Responsibilities

• Handle production alerts and troubleshoot outages; lead post-incident reviews.
• Develop automation to deploy, configure, and remediate services.
• Build and maintain monitoring/observability pipelines (metrics, logs, traces).
• Plan capacity based on usage patterns and forecast needs.
• Collaborate with development and operations to ensure safe production rollout.

Skills

Incident response

Troubleshooting

Automation scripting

Monitoring

Tools

Python

Java

Ruby

Job description

A Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) applies software engineering principles to IT operations and infrastructure to keep large-scale websites| applications| and cloud systems fast| reliable| and scalable.

Core Responsibilities Incident Response & Troubleshooting: Handle production alerts| investigate root causes| resolve outages| and lead post-incident reviews to prevent future failures.

Automation & Toil Reduction: Write code and scripts (using languages like Python| Java| or Ruby) to automate manual operations| routine maintenance| and system deployments.

Monitoring & Observability : Track system health using metrics| logs| and traces to measure latency| traffic| errors| and saturation via the AWS SRE Guide.

Reliability Standards: Define and manage Service-Level Objectives (SLOs)| Service-Level Indicators (SLIs)| Service-Level Agreements (SLAs)| and error budgets to balance speed with stability.

Capacity Planning: Analyze user traffic and usage patterns to forecast future hardware and infrastructure demands.

Bridges Dev & Ops: Work between software developers and traditional operations teams to ensure new features can run safely in production

We are an equal opportunity employer. All aspects of employment including the decision to hire, promote, discipline, or discharge, will be based on merit, competence, performance, and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, citizenship/ immigration status, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law.