SRE Lead: Datadog Migrations & Cloud Reliability

Chevron; Buffalo (NY); On-site; USD 65,000 - 96,000; Full time

Job summary

Chevron is hiring a Site Reliability Engineer to own the edge cases in its billing initiatives and lead a Datadog migration for legacy stacks. Based in Buffalo, NY, you will ship fixes to customers the same day they report them and mentor teammates while balancing independent work.

The role emphasizes initiative, fast iteration, and comfortable ownership of technology decisions in a NY market. Join a team focused on reliable, scalable systems.

Qualifications

• Proven initiative and strong ownership mindset.
• Curiosity in AWS Lambda and cloud-native tooling.
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision.

Responsibilities

• Own edge-case scenarios in Chevron's billing initiatives.
• Lead the Datadog migration to retire legacy stack.
• Ship Datadog fixes to Chevron customers in Buffalo, NY the same day issues are reported.
• Stress-test GitHub Actions systems and harden failures.
• Decompose technology monolith into Datadog services deployable from Buffalo, NY.
• Tune optimization queries to prevent NY DB timeouts under load.

Skills

AWS Lambda

Self-motivated

Stakeholder diplomacy

Time management

Attention to detail

Mentoring

Tools

Datadog

GitHub Actions

AWS

Job description

Chevron is hiring a Site Reliability Engineer to own the edge cases in its billing initiatives and lead a Datadog migration for legacy stacks. Based in Buffalo, NY, you will ship fixes to customers the same day they report them and mentor teammates while balancing independent work.

The role emphasizes initiative, fast iteration, and comfortable ownership of technology decisions in a NY market. Join a team focused on reliable, scalable systems.