Site Reliability Engineer

Retail Advantage Group; Post Falls (ID); On-site; USD 74,000 - 105,000; Full time

Job summary

Retail Advantage Group in Post Falls, ID is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to own reliability through automation and design. You will lead ArgoCD migrations, translate business needs into technical tasks, and help optimize latency, cost, and scalability.

Expected to spend time in sprint planning, roadmap discussions, and mentoring junior engineers, with a focus on high-availability services and pragmatic cloud optimization. We offer flexible contract hours and a collaborative tech culture.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience delivering estimates or leading estimates in projects.
• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent practical experience.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
• Calm under customer-centric chaos typical of mid-level roles.

Responsibilities

• Participate in sprint planning, estimation, and technology roadmap discussions.
• Translate high-trust business requirements into technical specifications and tasks.
• Lead the ArgoCD migration to retire the legacy stack.
• Catch Grafana race conditions that surface during peak traffic in Post Falls.
• Optimize application performance, latency, and resource utilization at scale.
• Trim cloud costs by right-sizing AWS Lambda infrastructure in Post Falls, ID.

Skills

ArgoCD

Grafana

AWS Lambda

Analytical thinking

Estimation discipline

Education

Bachelor's degree in a related field

Tools

GitLab CI

Cloud infrastructure

Job description

Our Site Reliability Engineer role rewards the autonomy-rich habit of writing the test before you trust the feature, especially around ArgoCD. The promise is concrete - $74,000 - $105,000, contract hours, 5 years honored, and a technology role at Retail Advantage Group that grows with you.

Key Responsibilities

• Contribute to sprint planning, estimation, and technology roadmap discussions
• Translate high-trust business requirements into technical specifications and tasks
• Lead the ArgoCD migration that finally retires Retail Advantage Group's values-led legacy stack
• Catch the Grafana race conditions that only surface under Post Falls peak traffic
• Optimize application performance, latency, and resource utilization at scale
• Trim Retail Advantage Group's cloud bill by right-sizing the AWS Lambda infrastructure in Post Falls, ID

What You'll Bring

• Comfort owning a number that goes up or down because of you
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities
• At least 5 years of standing behind your own estimates
• Calm under the customer-centric chaos a mid-level role tends to generate
• Reliable, accountable, and committed to following through
• Bachelor's degree in a related field, or equivalent practical experience

From its base in Post Falls, ID, Retail Advantage Group has spent the last decade making Load Balancing dramatically less painful for technology teams everywhere. We celebrate GitLab CI craftsmanship and hold ourselves to a high bar on the details that matter.

The package speaks for itself: $74,000 - $105,000, coaching, coverage, and the flexible contract hours that boldly-pragmatic technology pros expect.

This is an open, funded role that we intend to fill in the coming weeks.