Site Reliability Engineer

Nissan; Scottsdale (AZ); On-site; USD 62,000 - 89,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pulumi training

Wellness perks

Flexible hours

Job summary

Nissan in Scottsdale, AZ seeks a Site Reliability Engineer for a freelance role who can transform vague tech requests into precise, reliable systems that do exactly what is asked. The role includes Pulumi-focused work, incident response prototypes, and scaling data pipelines to handle millions of events.

You will review, design, and iterate with high trust and clear communication in a deadline-driven environment. Competitive freelance compensation is offered with wellness perks and training.

Qualifications

• Ability to own a changing number and explain impact.
• Genuine curiosity about Nissan customer behavior.
• Strong written and verbal communication across channels.
• Experience thriving in high-trust, deadline-driven environments.
• Ability to disagree professionally.

Responsibilities

• Review pull requests and uphold engineering standards across the technology team.
• Prototype rough Incident Response ideas quickly and evaluate for Nissan's stack.
• Reverse-engineer the Pulumi format Nissan inherited and undocumented.
• Decompose large tech initiatives into deliverable Scottsdale-capable increments.
• Read PagerDuty traces, trace bugs to root cause.
• Replace brittle Goal Setting with a durable Pulumi solution.
• Lead technical design reviews for junior initiatives.
• Scale data pipelines processing millions of events with Incident Response.

Skills

Ownership mindset

Customer insight

Effective communicator

High-trust work

Respectful disagreement

Job description

We need a Site Reliability Engineer who can take a vague technology request and return an oddball-friendly system that does exactly, and only, what was asked. This freelance job in AZ answers 1 years of effort with $62,000 - $89,000 and answers ambition with a clear way up.

Key Responsibilities

• Review pull requests and uphold engineering standards across the technology team
• Prototype rough Incident Response ideas fast, then decide which earn a place in Nissan's stack
• Reverse-engineer the innovative Pulumi format Nissan inherited and never documented
• Break large technology initiatives into Networking increments Scottsdale can actually deliver
• Read the PagerDuty stack traces others skim past, and trace bugs to their root
• Replace the brittle Goal Setting hack with a Pulumi solution that survives Scottsdale scale
• Lead technical design reviews for junior technology initiatives
• Scale data pipelines processing millions of events with Incident Response

What You'll Bring

• Comfort owning a number that goes up or down because of you
• Real curiosity about why Nissan customers do what they do
• Confident communicator across email, calls, and in-person meetings
• Experience thriving in a high-trust, deadline-driven setting like Nissan
• A communicator who can disagree without making it personal

Anchored in Scottsdale, AZ, Nissan designs the kind of quietly-relentless systems that technology teams quietly depend on every single day. Psychological safety is something we actively build, so disagreeing in good faith is encouraged.

Money matters, so we lead with $62,000 - $89,000; then come the wellness perks, the Pulumi training, and hours you actually control.

Current and accurate as of this visit, the freelance opening stands ready.

We're not after perfect, we're after ready, so if that's you,