Site Reliability Engineer - Datastores

Coralogix; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Coralogix is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to join our team and help build the next generation of our stream-based observability platform. You will lead critical infrastructure projects, optimize Kubernetes deployments, and champion reliability, performance, and cost-efficiency at scale.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years in DevOps/SRE, strong experience with Kubernetes, cloud platforms (AWS, GCP), and distributed datastores. You will mentor teams and drive automation and innovative solutions.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in DevOps, SRE, platform engineering, or infrastructure roles.
• Experience maintaining datastores in high-scale environments (Mongo, Cassandra, ClickHouse, Redis, OpenSearch).
• Experience running stateful workloads in Kubernetes.
• Proven experience managing large-scale cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP).
• Experience in incident response and troubleshooting distributed systems.
• Some software engineering experience, preferably in Golang.
• Passion for automation, performance tuning, and operational excellence.

Responsibilities

• Act as a hands-on technical leader with deep expertise in relational DBs or other distributed datastores.
• Serve as a go-to person in the team — leading through influence, not hierarchy.

Skills

DevOps

SRE

Platform engineering

Automation

Golang

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS

GCP

Kafka

Istio

MongoDB

Cassandra

ClickHouse

Redis

OpenSearch

Job description

Coralogix is a modern, full-stack observability platform transforming how businesses process and understand their data. Our unique architecture powers in-stream analytics without reliance on expensive indexing or hot storage. We specialize in comprehensive monitoring of logs, metrics, trace, and security events with features such as APM, RUM, SIEM, Kubernetes monitoring, and more, all enhancing operational efficiency and reducing observability spending by up to 70%.

Coralogix is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to join our team and help build the next generation of our stream-based observability platform. We deliver real-time data analytics at scale to some of the world's leading tech companies.

The SRE team is responsible for the foundational infrastructure that powers Coralogix:

• Kubernetes Infrastructure: Managing over 10,000 nodes across multiple cloud providers and regions. Coralogix production is 100% Kubernetes based
• Support service owners in running over 1,000 instances of multiple datastore types, cloud-based and self-hosted (on Kubernetes).
• Maintaining critical, large-scale clusters processing billions of events per second.
• Automation & Operators: Building and maintaining both open-source and custom Kubernetes operators to manage complex stateful workloads like Kafka. Our tech stack is constantly evolving. It includes: Kubernetes, Go (Golang), AWS, GCP, Kafka, Istio, and more.
• Write and maintain Kubernetes Controllers using frameworks like controller-runtime and KubeBuilder

Responsibilities

• Act as a hands-on technical leader with deep expertise in relational DBs or other distributed datastores
• Serve as a go-to person in the team --- leading through influence, not hierarchy.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to refine requirements and propose innovative, scalable solutions.
• Drive long-term, high-impact infrastructure projects across multiple teams, from design to implementation, within defined timelines.
• Contribute to improving system reliability, performance, and cost-efficiency at scale.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, platform engineering, or infrastructure roles.
• Experience with maintaining datastores in high-scale environments, whether relational DBs or other distributed datastores (Mongo, Cassandra, ClickHouse, Redis, OpenSearch).
• Experience with running stateful workloads in Kubernetes.
• Proven experience managing large-scale cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, etc.).
• Experience in incident response and troubleshooting complex distributed systems.
• Some software engineering experience, preferably in Golang.
• Passion for automation, performance tuning, and operational excellence.

Cultural Fit

We're seeking candidates who are hungry, humble, and smart. Coralogix fosters a culture of innovation and continuous learning, where team members are encouraged to challenge the status quo and contribute to our shared mission. If you thrive in dynamic environments and are eager to shape the future of observability solutions.

Coralogix is an equal opportunity employer and encourages applicants from all backgrounds to apply.