Site Reliability Engineer

Drivetrain; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

WFH allowance

Meet your colleague allowance

Holiday list flexibility

Game nights with yummy food

Annual retreat

Learning allowance

Job summary

Drivetrain is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to keep our fast-growing SaaS platform highly available, performant, and secure. You will own multi-cloud infrastructure, champion automation, and drive observability across AWS and GCP, with a strong focus on reliability from code to production.

You will lead scalable Kubernetes deployments, implement service mesh security, and build robust CI/CD pipelines with Git and Jenkins.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on SRE/DevOps or cloud infra experience in SaaS environments.
• Strong Python programming and Terraform IaC experience.
• Deep knowledge of Kubernetes, Docker, and multi-cloud AWS/GCP.
• Solid security practices including zero-trust and RBAC enforcement.
• Experience with observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK).
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines (Git, Jenkins).

Responsibilities

• Own and optimize multi-cloud infrastructure across AWS and GCP.
• Lead design and deployment of scalable Kubernetes clusters.
• Build and enforce CI/CD pipelines and automated testing and security gates.
• Develop automation scripts to reduce operational toil (Python).
• Design and expand observability with Prometheus, Grafana, and log stacks.
• Drive incident management with blameless postmortems and SLOs.

Skills

Python

Terraform

Kubernetes

Docker

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK/EFK

AWS

GCP

CI/CD

RBAC

Observability

Automation

Tools

Git

Jenkins

Job description

• As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Drivetrain, you will be a cornerstone of our engineering organization, ensuring our fast-growing SaaS platform remains highly available, performant, and secure
• At this stage of our growth, scaling infrastructure efficiently while maintaining the rigorous security and reliability standards required for financial data is paramount
• You will take ownership of our multi-cloud infrastructure, drive automation, champion observability, and collaborate closely with development teams to build a culture of reliability from code commit to production
• Multi-Cloud Management: Architect, manage, and continuously optimize highly available cloud infrastructure across both AWS and GCP. Balance workload demands to ensure maximum cost-efficiency, scalability, and strict security compliance across both platforms
• Advanced Kubernetes Orchestration: Lead the design, deployment, and management of scalable Kubernetes clusters. Utilize configuration management tools like Kustomize to enforce standardized, repeatable, and automated deployment configurations across all environments
• Service Mesh & Security Integration: Implement and maintain service mesh technologies (e.g., Istio, Linkerd) to secure, control, and observe service-to-service communication. Drive container security best practices, including image scanning, runtime protection, and strict RBAC enforcement
• Pipeline Engineering: Architect, maintain, and optimize robust CI/CD pipelines using Git and Jenkins. Focus on reducing deployment friction, accelerating release velocity, and enforcing automated testing and security gates
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Treat infrastructure as software. Write, review, and maintain Terraform modules to provision and manage cloud resources predictably and safely
• Operational Automation: Aggressively reduce operational toil. Develop robust Python scripts and tooling to automate routine maintenance, data backups, scaling operations, and system recovery processes
• Comprehensive Monitoring: Design and enhance our observability stack to provide deep, real-time insights into system health. Manage and scale tools including Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK stack, AWS CloudWatch, and GCP Operations Suite
• Reliability Engineering: Spearhead reliability initiatives critical to a scaling SaaS platform. Drive rigorous capacity planning exercises to stay ahead of growth
• Incident Management & SLOs: Own the incident response lifecycle. Facilitate blameless postmortems to extract actionable learnings. Define, track, and enforce SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs, ensuring the platform consistently meets its reliability guarantees
• DevOps Culture: Act as an embedded reliability advocate. Collaborate closely with software engineers early in the development lifecycle to ensure applications are designed for deployability, scalability, and resilience
• Continuous Improvement: Proactively identify system bottlenecks and architectural weaknesses. Contribute to process improvements, build internal developer tooling, and maintain comprehensive documentation to elevate team productivity and system understanding

Benefits

• WFH & workspace allowance
• “Meet your colleague” allowance
• Choose your own holiday list
• Game nights with yummy food
• Annual retreat
• Learning allowance

Automation/IaC: Strong programming skills in Python and extensive experience with TerraformObservability: Hands-on expertise building dashboards and alerting systems using Prometheus, Grafana, and log aggregation stacks (ELK/EFK)Networking & Security: Solid understanding of cloud networking (VPC peering, load balancing, DNS) and zero-trust security principles in a containerized environmentContainerization: Expert-level knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes, including advanced deployment strategies and lifecycle managementCloud Platforms: Deep, proven proficiency in AWS (EC2, EKS, RDS, VPC, IAM, S3) AND GCP (GKE, Compute Engine, Cloud SQL, IAM, Cloud Storage). Ability to navigate and optimize multi-cloud architecturesExperience: 5+ years of hands-on experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or Cloud Infrastructure roles, preferably within a fast-paced SaaS environment