Site Reliability Engineer

Hidden Jobs; United States; On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

Retirement matching

Paid family leave

Fertility support

Mental health resources

Learning opportunities

Job summary

myfitnesspal is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to build and operate reliability foundations that enable rapid, safe software releases. You will work within a productivity engineering and self-service platform team, owning production reliability, incident response, observability, infrastructure automation, Kubernetes operations, deployment safety, and security controls in CI/CD.

You will define SLI/SLO, lead incident reviews, implement policy-as-code, and mentor engineers on

Qualifications

• 5+ years in site reliability, platform, or infrastructure engineering with senior ownership of production systems.
• Strong programming ability in Go, Python, TypeScript, or a similar language for automation and production tooling.
• Hands-on experience with a major cloud platform, Kubernetes, and Infrastructure as Code; AWS and Terraform experience are useful.
• Proven experience leading incident response and implementing SLO-driven reliability practices.
• Working knowledge of observability tooling; experience with Datadog is useful.
• Practical experience securing CI/CD through scanning, dependency controls, or policy-as-code.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve SLI, SLO, and error-budget practices, using reliability data to influence priorities and product decisions.
• Lead incident response, facilitate post-incident reviews, and convert findings into durable system improvements.
• Build and maintain observability across metrics, logs, and traces while improving signal quality and reducing alert fatigue.
• Design and operate resilient infrastructure with Infrastructure as Code, including capacity planning and cloud-cost optimization.
• Manage production Kubernetes and container workloads and support safe deployment methods such as canary releases, progressive rollouts, and rapid rollback.
• Integrate and tune SAST, DAST, SCA, dependency scanning, and related security controls in delivery pipelines.
• Implement policy-as-code to prevent unsafe infrastructure and Kubernetes changes at admission time.
• Maintain vulnerability triage and remediation service levels, improve on-call sustainability, and coach engineers on operational practices.

Skills

Go

Python

TypeScript

Automation

Incident response

Tools

Datadog

AWS

Terraform

Kubernetes

CI/CD security tooling

Job description

Role overview

Build and operate the reliability, delivery, automation, and security foundations that allow product teams to release software quickly and safely. Working within a productivity engineering and self-service platform team, this role owns production reliability practices, incident response, observability, infrastructure automation, Kubernetes operations, deployment safety, and security controls embedded in CI/CD.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve SLI, SLO, and error-budget practices, using reliability data to influence priorities and product decisions.
• Lead incident response, facilitate post-incident reviews, and convert findings into durable system improvements.
• Build and maintain observability across metrics, logs, and traces while improving signal quality and reducing alert fatigue.
• Design and operate resilient infrastructure with Infrastructure as Code, including capacity planning and cloud-cost optimization.
• Manage production Kubernetes and container workloads and support safe deployment methods such as canary releases, progressive rollouts, and rapid rollback.
• Integrate and tune SAST, DAST, SCA, dependency scanning, and related security controls in delivery pipelines.
• Implement policy-as-code to prevent unsafe infrastructure and Kubernetes changes at admission time.
• Maintain vulnerability triage and remediation service levels, improve on-call sustainability, and coach engineers on operational practices.

Requirements

• 5+ years in site reliability, platform, or infrastructure engineering with senior ownership of production systems.
• Strong programming ability in Go, Python, TypeScript, or a similar language for automation and production tooling.
• Hands-on experience with a major cloud platform, Kubernetes, and Infrastructure as Code; AWS and Terraform experience are useful.
• Proven experience leading incident response and implementing SLO-driven reliability practices.
• Working knowledge of observability tooling; experience with Datadog is useful.
• Practical experience securing CI/CD through scanning, dependency controls, or policy-as-code.
• Understanding of cloud security fundamentals, including IAM, least privilege, guardrails, and secrets management.
• Strong judgment and communication skills when raising reliability or security issues across engineering teams.

Nice to have

• Experience with policy-as-code frameworks such as OPA/Rego, Kyverno, or Conftest.

Benefits and work setup

The source describes comprehensive healthcare, retirement savings with employer matching, paid family leave, fertility support, mental health resources, wellness and technology allowances, performance-related rewards, learning opportunities, mentorship, and an inclusive workplace culture.