Site Reliability Engineer

LaunchCode; St. Louis (MO); On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

LaunchCode is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to partner with software engineers to improve reliability and production readiness. You will automate repetitive tasks, build resilient systems, and focus on global-scale availability.

The role emphasizes scripting (Python/Bash/Go), monitoring, incident response, and collaboration across teams to reduce operational risk and drive continuous improvement. Strong Linux fundamentals and cloud expertise are required.

Qualifications

• Experience in SRE, production support, or DevOps.
• Proficient in Python, Bash, or Go.
• Strong Linux/Unix administration and networking basics.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Familiar with monitoring, logging, metrics, tracing, and observability.
• Knowledge of CI/CD, containers, and orchestration.
• Experience with incident, problem, and change management.
• Ability to troubleshoot performance and availability issues.

Responsibilities

• Support high-availability production environments.
• Develop automation scripts using Python, Bash, or Go.
• Monitor health with metrics, logs, traces.
• Troubleshoot across applications, Linux/Unix, networks.
• Contribute to cloud infra, CI/CD, containers.
• Assist capacity planning and disaster recovery.
• Participate in incident response and postmortems.
• Collaborate with development teams for production readiness.
• Document solutions and share knowledge.

Skills

SRE

Automation & Scripting

Incident response

Monitoring & Observability

Cloud fundamentals

Tools

Python

Bash

Go

Linux/Unix

AWS

Azure

GCP

CI/CD

Containers/Kubernetes

Observability tooling

Job description

Build Resilience. Automate What's Next. Keep Critical Technology Moving.

We're looking for a Site Reliability Engineer who loves solving complex problems, automating the repetitive stuff, and finding ways to make systems more reliable before issues ever reach production. This is an opportunity to join a highly technical Business Operations team that works closely with software engineers to improve application reliability, strengthen production readiness, and build systems designed to perform when it matters most.

What makes this opportunity exciting?

• Work with critical, high-volume financial technology systems where reliability and performance matter every second.
• Help engineering teams build resilient, scalable applications from the ground up.
• Turn manual processes into smarter, automated solutions.
• Investigate production issues, identify root causes, and help prevent them from happening again.
• Improve monitoring and observability so teams can detect and resolve issues proactively.
• Collaborate with talented engineers who value continuous improvement, automation, and operational excellence.

What you'll be doing

• Support high-availability systems and help maintain stable, reliable production environments.
• Develop scripts and automation using Python, Bash, Go, or similar languages.
• Monitor system health using metrics, logs, traces, and observability tools.
• Troubleshoot issues across applications, infrastructure, Linux/Unix systems, and networks.
• Contribute to cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, containerization, and deployment practices.
• Help with capacity planning, performance optimization, disaster recovery, and scalability.
• Participate in incident response, root cause analysis, and blameless postmortems.
• Partner with development teams early in the software lifecycle to improve production readiness.
• Document solutions, share knowledge, and continuously look for ways to improve reliability and reduce operational risk.

What we're looking for

Someone who enjoys getting into the details, thinking critically, and taking ownership of technical problems. You don't have to know everything, but you should be comfortable working independently on routine and moderately complex issues while knowing when to bring in additional expertise.

You'll bring experience with several of the following:

• Site Reliability Engineering, production support, systems engineering, or DevOps.
• Python, Bash, Go, or other scripting and programming languages.
• Linux/Unix administration and networking fundamentals.
• Cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
• Monitoring, logging, metrics, tracing, and observability tools.
• CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, containers, or orchestration.
• Incident, problem, and change management.
• Troubleshooting performance, availability, and infrastructure issues.

If you enjoy automation, solving challenging technical problems, and making a measurable impact on systems operating at global scale, let's talk.